Edited George Newnes (32 results)

QUARTER LEATHER. Condition: Very Good Small Tear on Spine. No Jacket. First Edition. THE MAGAZINE THAT LAUNCHED SHERLOCK HOLMES this is volume 7 and still contains the same wonderful mix of articles and stories .Binding is the Quarter Leather with gilt decorations Please email for further details NO EXTRA POSTAGE ABOVE OUR STAND…

Half-Leather. Condition: Good Spine Missing. No Jacket. First Edition. Contains Arthur Conan Doyle - The Exploits of Brigadier Gerald (4 chapters) , Jules Verne's - An Express of the Future, Max Pemberton's - The Lepers' Guest,The Evolution Of Cricket by Alfred Story ,The Signatures Of Napoleon by William G Fitzgerald, Naming Th…

Good+. no dj. spine covering is missing/chipped to about 1/2 inch to top end. corners rounded and some rounding to bottom end of spine. 1/4 leather to corners and spine - with gilt detailing. green boards are clean and bright - but leather has aken wear and showing age. the binding remains firm. all pages present. no inscription…

Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. The American edition with 10¢ price printed on front cover. Includes "The Pterodactyl" by Thomas Charles Sloane, a tale of a hunting party that encounters a prehistoric reptile in a cave in Virginia, and chapter eleven of "The Enchanted Castle" by Edith Nesbit. Small chip from bottom spi…

Original Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good +(AVERAGE). No Jacket. First Edition. Bumped corners, Foxing, Missing front end paper and half of rear end paper, stain on back board. This volumes contents include a featured article on "The Boyhood of Lewis Carroll" who had died earlier on in this year. It deals with his early work, be…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good - See Description. First Edition Thus. 1898. First bound edition. 804pp. and many black and white illustrations from photographs and various artists. All edges gilt. The Strand Magazine was the first of the major popular illustrated sixpenny monthlies and ran from 1891 to 1950. It featured articles…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Half royal blue half leather with gilt lettering and beige buckram boards. No dustwrapper as issued. Slight opening wear and the odd corner scuff. Blue endpapers.Tightly bound. The odd page with foxing but very clean generally' Contains 'The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard' by Arthur Co…

Original Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good : Rubbed Edges. No Jacket. First Edition. Not Signed or Inscribed. Contains the first two episodes of "The First Men In the Moon" by H.G. Wells , other articles and stories by contributors including E. Nesbit and Arthur Conan Doyle. Binding is the Original BLUE cloth with gilt decoration…

Original Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good Part Page Missing. No Jacket. First Edition. Includes Stories or articles by:Arthur Conan Doyle :" The Crime of the Brigadier", " Playing with Fire" and "The Episode of the Dead Man Who Spoke" . From John Oxenham " Two Old Maids from School " From E Nesbit "The Blue Mountain" also The Ro…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. The Strand Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly. Vol. XIV. July to December 1897. Slight wear to top and bottom edge of cloth and corners of spine. Green cloth with black decoration and lettering. Illustrated. (We carry a wide selection of ti…

Original Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good : Rubbed Edges. No Jacket. First Edition. This volume has an article on the "Alice in Wonderland " author Lewis Carroll by Beatrice Hatch using some of Carroll's own photos and drawings, it also contains the first "Round the Fire" story by Arthur Conan Doyle, a story 'Despot on Tour' by…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. This volume is an original bound copy of the Strand Magazine covering July to December 1896 ( Volume XII). It contains ( inter alia) Episodes of Conan Doyle's 'Rodney Stone'. It is bound in red cloth boards, and a brown spine with gilt lettering. The cl…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The first volume of the Strand Magazine, popular illustrated monthly.Original publishers blue cloth binding with black and gold lettering and decoration with the Strand street scene on the front board.Six monthly issues bound in one volume.With title page and volume index at…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. A hardback copy of the Strand Magazine dating back to 1893. This collects all the issues of the Strand Magazine from July-December of 1893 into one book.The book is home to everything from interviews with celebrities of the time, early photos of people…

Quarter Leather. Hardback A fantastic set consisting of 18 volumes from volume 1 January to June 1891 to volume 18 July to December 1899 Featuring the first ever appearance of Sherlock Holmes in volume 2 Handsomely bound in quarter leather with marble paper covered boards volume 6 onwards are half bound in leather All volumes ar…