Conan Doyle a Rthur (37 results)

8vo. 270 pp. Numerous illusts. Half-blk over red boards, gilt lettrng. NF. First Readers Digest edition. Greg Spalenka (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Third Ed. Hardcover. Owners name & date in pencil and number in pen on ffep else about Good wi/a little marginalia in pencil. One ~2 in. closed tear on an inner leaf crosses some text. Light-mod roll to cover. Signatures starting to separate. Leaves light-mod edge soil stained. Bright stamping; still reasonably tight. Includes two stories listed in Bleiler's Guide to Superanatural Fiction (1983).…

8vo. 282 pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Numerous colour illusts. Colour-illust. boards (rmvd lbl on rear pstdn), still very good copy. First Whitman edition, No. 1624.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lg. 8vo. New Intro. by Steven Marcus. Red bds., gilt signature facs. on cover, etges sl. faded. Backstr. black w. gilt lettering. Illus. Xii, 171pp., two columns. Underlining pp. viii, x, xi, xii, o.w. clean.

144pp. 1st American edition Covers heavily waterstained, soiled, front cover torn out: Fair/no dj.

Spine indicates Oxford edition. (c.1891 London, 3 vols., 750 copies). Burgundy cloth. 8vo. pp. [vii], 6-483. Good/No jacket, as issued. Sunned spine, cap and corner wear, very toned pages with several edge tears, hinges starting, first section loose. Scarce early one volume reprint same year as first edition, no illustrations. Doyle's personal favorite.…

Full Leather. Condition: fine.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Befriedigend. Heyne - 1. Auf. 1966 : Conan Doyle - tb A1-592P-R4IR Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

HC. Condition: Gut. 1. 196 S. B3625-17 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

[1974]. (4to) Very good in very good dust jacket. 526pp. Frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, appendix, indices. Based on the work of A[rthur]. Conan Doyle. Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson. (Book Collecting, Reference).

Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 188 Seiten Zustand: AKZEPTABLER Zustand. HC1-243-4/8-00620863 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 292.

3.Tsd. (4),325,(7) S. Vlgsanzeigen. Neuer Pbd. mit Kleisterpapierbezug, farbl. abgesetztem Rücken u. Rückentitel, innen stellenw. leicht stock- od. fingerfleckig, sonst gut erh.

First UK edition, preceded by the U.S. edition published earlier the same year under the title "A DESERT DRAMA: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko." Story centered on a group of British tourists in Egypt who are abducted by Islamic forces. Illustrated with 40 monochrome plates by Sidney Paget. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth, black coated endpapers, 6 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Good to very good with rear endpaper cracked, spine darkened and with tear in cloth at center and another at head along with a small hole.…

Illustrated. 408 (+14 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red buckram, stamped in silver and gilt. Light spots of soil on spine, else About Fine Illustrated. 408 (+14 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

First American Edition. First American Edition. [vi], 307 (+4 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth, stamped in silver and gold. Spine a trifle faded, head of spine chipped, shallow waterstain along top edge throughout, not affecting text. Very Good [vi], 307 (+4 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

8vo. pp.x, 554, [10]ads. 5 folding coloured maps. original cloth (extremities bit frayed). First Edition, Eighth Impression. Green & Gibson B1a.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. x, 552, [12] pp. With the 5 folding maps. In the publisher's navy ribbed cloth, gilt-stamped to spine. The volume has been fully conserved including re-backing with spine strip laid down. Having served as a volunteer doctor in the Langman Field Hospital in Bloemfontein in early 1900, Conan Doyle wrote a pamphlet titled The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, and also this present volume (dedicated to Langman). He is quoted as believing that this resulted in his knighthood awarded in 1902. It is also significant in being his first work of non-fiction, a branch of his writing that came to be dominated by his later interest in spiritualism. Boards with a little water-marking at tail and half-title with a neat contemporary ownership signature, else unmarked. A very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz 1902 (recte um 1910). - 270 S., 1 Bl. Kl.-8°. OLwd. mit goldgepräg. RTitel und illustr. Rücken sowie blindgepräg. Verlagsvignette auf dem VDeckel. (= Collection of British Authors, Vol. 3571). - Vgl. Todd/Bowden S. 514, 3571a. - Ausgabe wie bei Todd/Bowden mit allen Eigenschaften der Variante "a" des Erstdrucks von 1902, jedoch mit der Anzeige von 26 weiteren Werken Doyles auf dem Vortitelblatt verso, endend mit "The mystery of Cloomber" (erschienen 1909) und im Orig.-Geschenkeinband der "Gift Books" (G9) im rot/braunem Orig.-Leineneinband (x9b), so daß die Ausgabe auf um 1909/1910 datiert werden kann. - "The Hound of the Barkervilles" ist der dritte Roman der Sherlock Holmes Serie und einer der bekannesten Detektivgeschichten Arthur Conan Doyles. - Der Roman erschien von August 1901 bis April 1902 als Fortsetzungsroman im "Strand Magazine". Der Verlag (London, George Newnes) brachte die Buchausgabe bereits im März des Jahres 1902 heraus, damit sich auf das Ende gespannte Leser, die den letzten Monat nicht mehr warten wollten, das Buch kauften. - Todd/Bowen schreiben zum Erstdruck bei Tauchnitz von 1902: "This volume was probably set from advance sheets of the London edition, published on 25 March 1902. Cited in 1939 General List. Green and Gibson A26e, NUC:3". - Einband minimal bestoßen. Innenspiegel gering stockfleckig. - Von sehr guter Erhaltung. - Frühe Ausgabe in einer seltenen Einbandvariante. - *** 93 Jahre Antiquariat Arno Adle. ***.…

1st UK edition (Green & Gibson A39a). [8], 306, [6 (adverts)] pp. Frontispiece by Frank Wiles. Crown 8vo. The fourth, and final, tale featuring Sherlock Holmes. General wear & soiling to covers. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy in a VG+ slipcase. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt stamped lettering. No dust jacket. Custom red cloth slipcase.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Two large octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") volumes: original light blue beveled cloth, front and spine stamped in black and gold, all edges gilt, floral patterned endpapers; original dark blue beveled cloth, front and spine stamped in black and gold, all edges gilt, floral patterned endpapers; [1-4,] [1], 2-317, [318: printers imprint], [319-320: blank] pages; [1-6], [1], 2-279, [280: blank] pages. First Issue of ADVENTURES in the correct first state binding with "cucaine" on page 133 and "Violent" on page 317. These two volumes collect the first 23 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, starting with "A Scandal in Bohemia" and ending with "The Final Problem." Glover & Greene, VICTORIAN DETECTIVE FICTION #128 & #129; Green and Gibson, A10 and A14: "Rarely has a character so quickly established itself on the popular imagination as did Sherlock Holmes in the latter half of 1891"; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Queen's Quorum #16 (ADVENTURES); Keating, CRIME & MYSTERY: THE BEST 100 BOOKS (ADVENTURES). Housed in a custom blue half morocco and blue cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered spine. The ADVENTURES has a previous owner's name in ink dated 1892 on the front endpaper, scattered light foxing, hinges cracked with the front cover a little loose and a couple of places in the text where there is some separation and looseness of the signatures; some moderate rubbing to the spine, a scratch on the front panel with the gilt fairly bright. Very Good. MEMOIRS has an 1896 owner name on the recto of the frontispiece, clean text throughout, hinges slightly cracked; some mild rubbing to the spine, covers clean with very bright gilt. Near Fine. Clamshell box with the backstrip sunned and minor wear. Overall a Very Good set. Sidney Paget (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan: A külvárosban - Regény. [Beyond the city - Novel] Budapest, 1922. Légrády Testvérek. 198 [2] p. Fifth Hungarian edition. Publisher's illustrated paper wrappers. Damaged on spine, repaired. Tape stain on cover edge. Rare Hungarian-language paperback edition. First published in 1892, Beyond the City, unlike other Conan Doyle works, is set in suburbia and is concerned with women's rights. The history of three families intricately connected by fate, the story focuses on the character of Mrs. Westmacott, the feminist heroine who drinks stout and smokes cigarettes. ( O,O ) /)__) , .…

DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Stark Munro Letters, Being a Series of Sixteen Letters Written by J. Stark Munro, M.B., to His Friend and Former Fellow-Student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, During the Years 1881-1884. Edited and Arranged by. Orig. cloth. Illustrated. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1895. First edition. Wolff 1918. Green & Gibson A18c. A fine copy. …

First combined edition. With 4 plates and numerous text illustrations. Original decorated publisher's cloth, spine worn; interior with some very light scattered spotting and a small damp-stain. Ownership inscription to title, small bookseller's label to front paste-down. First combined edition of these two tales.…

FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece. Rebound in red cloth, original upper cover laid down, sunned at spine and edges of lower cover. Ownership inscription to recto of frontispiece, small bookseller's label to front paste-down. First edition of this collection of short stories. "It is difficult to make a volume of short stories homogeneous , but these have this in common, that they concern themselves with war and sport-a fact which may commend them to the temper of the times. Such as they are, I have chosen them as the fittest survivors out of the tales which I have written during the last six years.".…

First edition (ads dated 10-2-96). Octavo. 334, [2], 8 [publisher's ads] pp. Complete with twenty-four full page illustrations by W. B. Wollen. Publisher's vertically-ribbed red cloth, gilt cover and spine lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Slight evidence of rubbing to front pastedown, else a very good, clean and bright copy.Eight adventures by Doyle's French hero Gerard.…

8vo. [6], 348 pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Frontisp. Red cloth, gilt lettering & illustration in black on front cover & spine (minor dustsoiling, minor edgewear, slight bumping to couple corners), still a VG copy, from the library of John Ruyle, noted poet of Sherlockiana. First edition, 1st printing of this wonderful collection of stories on pirates, adventure, mystery, and even the early appearance of "The Croxley Master," a boxing story which was reprinted separately later in 1907. See: Green & Gibson, A25a.…

Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. First American edition. Illustrated. x, 308 (+2 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red buckram, stamped in silver and gilt. Near Fine Illustrated. x, 308 (+2 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 39 plates. Original red publisher's cloth, sunned and worn at spine; first gathering slightly loose. Small embossed bookseller's stamp to fly-leaf, small bookseller's label to front paste-down, ownership inscription to half-title. First edition of this story set in Egypt, about the Dervish threat. A portion of it first appeared serially in the May through December, 1897, issues of The Strand magazine, and was enlarged here into a novel.…

FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 7 plates. Original pebbled publisher's cloth, spine sunned and slightly bumped with a few small chips, front cover a bit loose. Small bookseller's label to front paste-down. First edition of this novel about boxing, which also appeared serially in The Strand magazine the same year.…

First Edition. First printing. Crown octavo (19cm). Publisher's dark blue-green cloth-covered beveled boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; half-title; frontispiece with tissue-guard. viii,[1]-346,[2]pp + 24pp publisher's catalogue. Tiny nick to cloth at crown of spine; faint foxing to frontis tissue guard, still a tight, straight, Near Fine copy in the original publisher's binding. GREEN & GIBSON A18a.…