The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by A Conan Doyle, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. owner's name & address, top edge damp-stain, not affecting text.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In White printed wrappers, Creasing to spine, minor chipping to tips, 12mo, scarce early continental edition of this work.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Eight short stories about an officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. First U.S. edition. Gently bumped and rubbed, rear hinge just beginning to crack but still solid. One plate missing, small sticker roughly removed from the upper corner of the front pastedown.

John Murray. London. 1924. First edition, thus, printed on thin paper and in a red leather binding with gilt decorations to spine and gilt "ACD" to upper boards. Spine slightly faded, boards slightly spotted. Endpapers and edges browned and foxed otherwise a clean and sound copy of a scarce item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. W. B. Wollen (illustrator). 1st Edition. Scarlet boards, the front lettered in gilt and front and back decorated in black; the spine has slight lean and is faded. Text block edges foxed. Internally offsetting to end papers; around 10% of contents with up to 5 mm foxing spots; otherwise contents clean and tight. Pp (10) with tissue guarded frontis, 334, (1), 8.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition [Green & Gibson,91]. Red cloth binding with titling and decorations in silver and orange. Clean text; 361 pages. Frontis illustration, and 22 others within. Previous-owner stamps to the first and second free endpapers. Mild bumping. The spine is lightly faded and the titling has been rubbed - however, it remains perfectly clear. In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: very good. W.B Wollen (illustrator). First. With 24 illustrations by W.B Wollen. [7], 334 pages + 8 pp of ads. Thick 8vo, red cloth stamped in gilt & black. London: George Newnes, 1896. First edition. Some scattered foxing; binding cocked and with some neat repairs to spine ends, but overall a very good copy, with the earliest ads, dated 10.2.96.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Splots on spine. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Decorated maroon cloth. Contemporary owner's name on the front fly ("Capt. W.T. Duggan, 10th Inty"), bookplate of noted Sherlockian Edgar W. Smith on the front pastedown with his pencil notation on the last page of where and when he bought the book, and the spine a bit tanned else a nice, near fine copy. Coincidentally, the original owner before Smith, the American Captain Duggan, eventually became, like Gerard, a Brigadier General. *Green & Gibson* A19c.

First Edition. A very good or slightly better copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 23 plates. Original publisher's cloth, lightly spotted; interior with light scattered foxing. An uncut copy with a small bookseller's label to front paste-down and a contemporary ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition of this collection of eight adventures of a Napoleonic soldier. These were written after Sherlock Holmes had been (apparently) killed. And like Holmes, most were separately published in The Strand magazine monthly during 1894-95.

Wollen, W. B. (illustrator). With Twenty-Four Illustrations, by W.B. Wollen, R.I. London: George Newnes, 1896. 8 pp ads dated "10.2.96." Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition of these eight adventures of the Napoleonic soldier Etienne Gerard (to be followed in 1903 with eight more, titled ADVENTURES OF GERARD). The stories ran monthly in the Strand, to be followed by publication in book form -- just like the Sherlock Holmes tales. Now that Doyle had (apparently) killed off Sherlock Holmes, he turned his storytelling efforts to the brigadier with his often-comic bravado. Doyle was very fond of him, and was proud of the preciseness of detail with which Gerard and his time were described. Alas for Doyle, the public wanted more Sherlock, not Gerard -- so Doyle grudgingly resurrected Holmes (temporarily in 1902 with THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, and then for good in 1905 with the first case in THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES). This copy has what we consider the "primary" ads, dated just five days before publication (February 15th); some copies have leftover ad catalogues dated "30.11.95," and later copies have ads dated as late as 1898. This is a near-fine copy (faint string-indents on the front board, but otherwise very little soil or wear; the spine is less faded than is typical for this red cloth); there is a January 1897 signature on the front free endpaper. Green & Gibson A19a.