Smith Edgar W Introduction (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. Light rubbing on the corners with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Introduction by Edgar W. Smith; The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman; The Devil's Footprints; The Dorrington Inheritance; The Triple Kent; The Rydberg Numbers; The Grice-Paterson Curse; The Stone of Scone; the Remarkable Worm; The Penny Magenta;The Trained Cormorant; The Camberwell Beauty; The Little Hangman; and The Swedenborg Signatures. Book.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: G- / NONE. GOOD-MINUS HARDBACK. EX-LIBRARY WITH TYPICAL MARKINGS. HEAVILY WORN BUT SOLID SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. WITH "VR" ON COVER IN 4 PLACES AS IF MADE UP OF BULLET HOLES. Illus. By Steele, Paget, Etc (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Derleth's fourth collection of stories focusing on his imitation of Sherlock Holmes, who he names Solar Pons. A 12mo or small octavo of 7-3/4 inches, one of 2,079 copies printed for Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin (Derleth's home town), by Collegiate Press, George Banta Company, Menasha, Wisconsin in 1958, though most of these stories appeared in pulp detective magazines a few years earlier. Jacket front flap NOT price clipped: original $4.00 price showing. There is a rectangular brownn stain to front endpapers where it appears a sulfurous paper clipping was once laid in, however. Did young Derleth write to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, circa 1928, "courteously" asking if the master intended to write any further Holmes stories, as noted Sherlockian scholar Vincent Starrett has reported, and did Sir Arthur "make no promises in his good-natured reply." Or did Derleth in fact (unsuccessfully) seek permission to continue the Holmes stories himself, just as he was later to expand and alter the work product of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard after those pulp authors' untimely demise -- "posthumous collaborations" which Lovecraft biographer S.T.Joshi has branded "disreputable"? This collection includes The Adventures of the Devil's Footprints, of the Grice-Paterson Curse, of the Penny Magenta, of the Trained Cormorant, nine others. 261 pp. Jacket by Frank Utpatel (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Collector's edition. Octavo, xxvi, 764 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with gold print. Boards in black leather, decorative gilt design. Text block has gilt edges, moire endpapers, red ribbon marker. Illustrated: color frontispiece portrait, b&w plates (drawings). Contains: A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four; the twelve adventures originally published as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"; and the twelve adventures originally published as "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1410088. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited to 2000 copies, hardcover in black cloth with spine lettered in green, clean tight and unmarked, pages crisp and bright; warmly inscribed and signed by Derleth on front free endpaper; dust jacket not price-clipped and protected in archival plastic, has light age browning around edges, very light rubs along all edges. Frank Utpatel (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

dj. First Edition. First Printing, one of 2000 copies. Octavo; black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in green on spine; dustjacket; 261, [1]pp. Very Near Fine. Dustjacket lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears and hint of sunning to spine; VG+. Collection of 13 stories featuring Derleth's fictional detective Solar Pons. With an introduction by Edgar W. Smith.…