Jerome Rudyard Kipling Conan Doyle (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1897 Hardcover book in Good Plus condition (would be Very Good but bottom of spine frayed).Corners bumped, general wear, some foxing. shelf 341. Includes chapters about The Experiences of My First Book of Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, & Robert Louis Stevenson, and many others; stamp of previous owner name, stamp of importers of booksellers from Boston, from the library of Stanley Horn, historian for the State of Tennessee, 309 pages includes illustrations, no marks, no underlining, not a remainder copy, not ex library, not a book club copy. We have been voted Nashville's best used bookstore.

Condition: Good. a new edition. Cloth, G. xxiv+309pp+32pp publishers catalogue, b/w frontis, 184 b/w illustrations, cloth rather rubbed, corners bumped, split to the cloth along the rear hinge repaired a little crudely, sporadic foxing to the pages. A good reading copy. Interesting account from some 22 emminent late Victorian authors of the reasons & experiences thay had in writing & getting published their first books. 950 grams.

First Edition thus. MY FIRST BOOK, Chatto & Windus, 1897, first edition sheets with a new tipped in title page, fore edge corner tips slightly bumped, spine somewhat tanned, else a very tight, vg copy. Author contributions by Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, Jerome K. Jerome, David Christy Murray, Marie Corelli, Bret Harte, "Q", Robert Louis Stevenson, et.al. Accompanied by 185 illustrations.

First Edition. MY FIRST BOOK, Chatto & Windus, 1894, first edition, some rubbing to fore edge corner tips and bottom cloth edges, inner hinge just starting, spine a bit tanned, else a tight, near vg copy in the publishers original pictorial cloth binding. Author contributions by Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, Jerome K. Jerome, David Christy Murray, Marie Corelli, Bret Harte, "Q", Robert Louis Stevenson, et.al. Accompanied by 185 illustrations. Ads in rear dated September, 1893. Formerly the copy of fellow Victorian author Egerton Castle with his bookplate on the f.p.d.