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Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Description: Publisher's original light blue pictorial wrappers (soft back). Quarto. 9½'' x 6½''. pp 243 - 360 + 88 pp ads with 150 monochrome illustrations throughout. Contains many interesting short stories and articles including 'Sir Nigel' chapters 19, 20 and 21 by A Conan Doyle, 'Puck of Pooks Hill', chapter 9, by Rudyard Kipling, 'The Destruction of San Francisco' by James Hopper. Rubbing down the spine edges, pieces missing to the top corner and centre of the rear cover. Member of the P.B.F.A. DOYLE, [Sir] Arthur Conan
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Greyish brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Cloth is rubbed and has a few scratching but remains tight on the boards. Corners and head-and-foot of the spine are mildly bumped. Binding is square. Previous owner's personal bookplate affixed to front attached endpaper. Small penciling on front free endpaper. Title page is dated 1906. No copyright page. 720 pages. Six Issues of The Strand Magazine, a heavily illustrated periodcal, from January to June of 1906. 6 chapters of "Sir Nigel" by Arthur Conan Doyle and 6 chapters of "Puck of Pooks Hill" by Rudyard Kipling. Lastly, "Petticoat Influence" by P.G. Wodehouse. Interiors are clean and unmarked. Overall, a good reading copy.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Strand Magazine, three volumes. July-Dec 1905, Jan-June 1906, July-Dec 1906. (30,31,32) Includes the complete novel Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle, all parts. Also included is the Complete Puck Of Pook's Hill, by Rudyard Kipling, all parts. Many other short stories by authors W W Jacobs, E Nesbit, Max Pemberton, H G Wells Arthur Morrison and many more. Articles include Portraits Of Celebrities, with Winston Churchill, Forerunners Of Sherlock Holmes, Picture Galleries and much more. Profusely illustrated. CONDITION- In good condition. Volumes have been bound in a light red/purple colour. vol 31 has no index. All volumes otherwise are complete. Minimal wear to corners and edges. A very rare set of the first appearance of these famous stories and articles. Please see pictures, more on request. Packed securely in box and send tracked. Please see my other Strand magazines. Please bear in mind that postage will be incur extra charges (for customers overseas, please contact before purchasing as extra charges could be considerable) 5 kg. Please contact me for more information.
Seller: JS Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. Puck of Pook's Hill. George Newnes, London, 1906.
Price: US$83.37 + shipping
Description: Rudyard Kipling's collection of stories 'Puck of Pook's Hill' bound from the parts of the 1906 Strand Magazine. Preceding the work in book form, this clothbound work is from the January - October issues of 'The Strand Magazine' from 1906. Comprising of ten parts from 'The Strand Magazine'. Illustrated by Claude Allen Shepperson. When the work was published in book form illustrations were by H R Millar. This series of short stories are set during different periods of English history. They are regarded as both historical fantasy and contemporary fantasy. The tales are narrated to two children by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or they are told by Puck himself. Bound in a full cloth binding. Externally, bumped tot the head and tail of spine. Light rubbing to the spine and joints. Spine has faded. Front hinge is strained but firm. Prior owner's notations in pencil to the recto of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Scattered spots to endpapers and the odd spots to pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$891.46 + shipping
Description: The complete Puck in parts; FIRST APPEARANCE, preceeding the edition in book-form. Original magazine issues; 10 separate parts. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers. Some minor chips as expected, some adsverts excised from Feb. and June issues, but generally a very clean, attractive set. Housed in a leather box. Also contains a Sherlockian article, plus pieces by Doyle, Max Pemberton, P.G.Wodehouse, Richard Marsh and E.Nesbit. Kipling's popular series of tales set in different historical eras, including Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon England, The Norman Conquest, The Middle Ages and the Tudor Period. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey, East Sussex, by characters magically plucked out of history by 'Puck'. Traditionally the term 'Puck' referred to a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition, and from the 16th century the name of a mischevious goblin (or Hobgoblin), similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Although 'Puck' is seen as a children's book, (in the same way 'Treasure Island' or 'King Solomon's Mines' are viewed), the story-tellers are adults and the romances they describe would only be suitable for older readers. Stewart [306]. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature (277). BMC No.1[1984]; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. Oxford Companion to English Lit. p537, 797.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom