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The Best of Sherlock Holmes (Selected Stories) [Wordsworth Classics]
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, KStJ, DL (Author); David Stuart Davies (Edited, Selected & Introduction by)
Language: English
Published by Wordsworth Classics/Wordsworth Editions Limited, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK, 1998
- Softcover
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 397 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publicatio…n in 1887. He was the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, this including the Blanched Soldier, and two others are written in the third person. In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. Robert Mathias (Cover Design); John Atkinson Grimshaw (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).
George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets: Authoritative Texts, Criticism
Selected and Edited by Mario di Cesare; Selections from the poetry of George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne; Selections from the criticism of Anthony Low, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aldous Huxley, Wystan Hugh Auden, Thomas Stearns Eliot, L. C. Knights, E. B. Greenwood, Joseph Summers, Douglas Bush, Helen White, Austin Warren, Richard Strier, Frank Kermode, William Empson, M. C. Bradbrook, M. G. Lloyd Thomas, Edward Le Comte, Karina Williamson, Dennis Davison, Robert Ellrodt, E. C. Pettet, S. Sandbank, H. M. Margoliouth, Arthur Clements, and Stanley Stewart.
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York / London, England, 1978
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Softcover. A Norton Critical Edition. xiv, 401 pp. Softcover. LCC: 7728074 Good condition; on covers: touches of wear, and previous owner's signature on front; some pen underlining.
Booknotes: Stories from American History
Selected and annotated with an Introduction by Brian Lamb; Contributing authors: Bonnie Angelo, Joyce Appleby, David Howard Bain, A. Scott Berg, Emily Bernard, Ben Bradlee, James Bradley, H.W. Brands, Tom Brokaw, Andrew Burstein, Richard Cohen, Peter Collier, William Cooper, Michael Cottman, H.W. Crocker, Robert Dallek, Nina Easton, John Farrell, Drew Gilpin Faust, Frances Fitzgerald, Marlin Fitzwater, David Fromkin, Leonard Garment, Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Hamilton, Arthur Herman, David Herrmann, H. Paul Jeffers, Donald Kagan, Peter Kann, Zachary Karabell, David Kennedy, Roger Kennedy, Gina Kolata, Irving Kristol, Edward Larson, Nicholas Lemann, Anthony Lewis, Pauline Maier, Harvey Mansfield, Jon Margolis, Christopher Matthews, Linda McMurry, James McPherson, Diane McWhorter, Elizabeth Norman, Stephen Oates, Don Oberdorfer, Jay Parini, James Perry, John Podhoretz, Norman Podhoretz, Ben Procter, Jack Rakove, Roy Reed, Randall Robinson, Stuart Rochester, Arnold Rogow, Tim Russert,
Language: English
Published by Perseus Books Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. PublicAffairs. xxii, 540 pp. LCC: 2001048469 Very good condition; black ink mark on bottom edges of papers; previous owner's name on inside of front cover.
Published by Hallmark Editions, 1969
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The book is about him being and decent man who saw wrong and tried to correct it.
Published by Novello and Company Limited, London, 1957
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Very small hole on back cover, copyright 1929, revised reprint 1954, this printing 1957 which is small date printed on the back cover.
Published by Random House (New York), 1968
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- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1968 First Edition which is very scarce. The book is in EXCELLENT like new condition. Someone really took care of this 1960's thriller. Pictorial boards on this hard cover. Interior is immaculate. Highly collectible. (BR) Shelf 340.
More imagesWEIRD TALES
AICKMAN, Robert; BLACKWOOD, Algernon; JACKSON, Shirley; JAMES, M. R.; LEE, Vernon; LE FANU, Sheridan; LOVECRAFT, H. P.; MACHEN, Arthur; SAMUELS, Mark; WILKINS FREEMAN, Mary E.; YALE WYNNE, Madeline; WAGNER, Karl Edward; illustrated by CAMPBELL, Harry; selected and introduced by DIRDA, Michael
Published by London: The Folio Society., 2024
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original purple cloth over paper covered upper board, with metallic purple titles to the spine and illustration to the upper board, in slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Harry Campbell with a frontispiece and six further full page colour plates, including one d…ouble spread. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase. A collection of 12 weird tales selected by the Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael Dirda. Comprising, 'Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter' by Sheridan Le Fanu; 'Amour Dure' by Vernon Lee; 'The Little Room' by Madeline Yale Wynne; 'Novel of the Black Seal' by Arthur Machen; 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood; 'Casting the Runes' by M. R. James; 'The Hall Bedroom' by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Daemon Lover' by Shirley Jackson; 'Sticks' by Karl Edward Wagner; 'The Hospice' by Robert Aickman; 'The White Hands' by Mark Samuels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
