Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Roberts (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

Taschenbuch. 435 S. Kanten etw. bestoßen, Einband m. leichten Lesespuren L028 9780192815309 *.* Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 330.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. xxiiii + 435 pages. No dustjacket. Clean dark blue hardback binding with faded gilt-colour spine titles. Back spine-junction rubbed for about a quarter of length. Light/moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges yellowed, a bit of foxing to endpapers o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First thus. VG/No jacket. Publisher's original "Oxford Blue" cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, OUP crest blind-stamped to front board. Some rubbing to front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG/G++. DJ price-clipped but else entire - a little grubby.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 15 short stories. Featured are The Resident Patient by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Superfluous Finger by Jacques Futrelle, The Cyprian Bees by Anthony Wynne, Easter Devil by Mignon Eberhart, But the Patient Died by Lawrence G. Blochman, The Problem of the Covered Bridge by Edward D. Hoch, Hurting Much? by Cornell Woolrich, The Memorial Hour by Wade Miller, Guilty Witness by Morris Hershman, The Doctor Takes a Case by George Harmon Coxe, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers by Ben Hecht, Doctor's Orders by John Suter, The Splinter by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Sound Alibi by Jack Ritchie, Paint Doctor by Joe L. Hensley, The Other Side of the Curtain by Helen McCloy. Faint rubbing to the surface of the dustjacket. Price clipped otherwise in fine / near fine condition.

24pp., 8vo, paginated 161-184. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Roberts contributes 'The Cult of Sherlock'; Frank Swinnerton, 'Holmes - World Figure'; Darwin, 'The Great Holmes Joke'; Howlett and Pointer, 'Holmes on Stage and Screen'; Paget, 'He made Holmes real' ('In this article Winifred Paget writes of her father, Sidney Paget, whose drawings, says Frank Swinnerton on another page, made Holmes "the most universally familiar imaginary figure in two hemispheres'.