James Keddie (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1936, Bellows-Reeve Co., First Edition, foreword by Charles Finger, HB 215pp, Fine in Near Fine slip-case (one water spot on edge of slip-cover, covers and their titles bright, interior clean and unmarked, binding tight).

Condition: Good. 1936. No Edition Stated. 215 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with green lettering. B&W frontispiece. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Condition: Near Fine.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No. First Edition. A delightful look at the publishing industry of bygone days. Bound in brown cloth with paper lable on the spine. A nice clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. In Fine slipcase. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Co., 1936. 1st Edition. xviii, 215 p. Hardbound with DJ. The DJ has slight wear along the fore-edges and their corners. Interior pages are clean and the binding is tight. A nice fresh copy. Fine/Near Fine.

Condition: new.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. KEDDIE, James, Jr., Editor. The Second Cab: Fifteen Sherlockian Essays, One Sonnet and a Quiz. Boston: Stoke Moran for The Speckled Band, 1947. Limited Edition, one of 300 copies, this being No. 125. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8vo). [12], 13-93, [1] pp. Original gray pebbled printed wraps, stapled, with illustrated front wrapper depicting a horse cab and driver. Privately printed for the Sherlockian society The Speckled Band, this collection contains fifteen Sherlockian essays, a sonnet, and a quiz, with contributions by James Keddie, Sr., Edgar W. Smith, Helen Yuhasova, Herbert F. West, Henry C. Clark, P. M. Stone, and others. With a foreword by Vincent Starrett, it is one of the scarcer postwar Sherlockian publications and an important work for collectors of Sherlock Holmes scholarship. Provenance: From the Sherlock Holmes collection of Lawrence P. Dodge, assembled beginning in the early 1930s and acquired directly from Dodge descendants. Part of a long-held Sherlockian library containing early Doyle editions and classic works of Holmes scholarship. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding remains sound. Wraps with light soiling and sunning, primarily along the edges and spine. A well-preserved example of this scarce Sherlockian publication. [Attributes: First Edition; First Printing; Limited Edition.].

Etats-Unis, Edited by Vincent Starrett 1956. In-8 broché, de 248 pages au format 21,5 x 14 cm. Couverture avec titre imprimé et illustration en noir. Plats et intérieur frais. Dos carré muet. Retirage d'un des ouvrages les plus célèbres de l'érudition Holmesienne, dont l'édition originale de 1940 est ardemment recherché. Ce recueil contient des textes de Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Morley, R.K. Leavitt, Elmer Davis, Jane Nightwork, Earle F. Walbridge, H.W. Bell, James Keddie, Harvey Officer, P.M Stone, Vincent Starrett, Richard D. Altick, Frederic Dorr Steele, Henry James Forman, Edgar W. Smith et F.V Morley. Nombreuses illustrations et documents en noir, hors texte. Indispensable ouvrage et un must pour tous les Sherlockiens. Exemplaire ayant appartenu à Robert B. Frier en tirage limité à 350 exemplaires numérotés ( n° 232 ) avec ex-libris d'appartenance. Signé par Robert B. Frier au verso de la couverture. Edition originale broché en état proche du neuf et en tirage limité. Rare et totalement épuisé.