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CONAN DOYLE ARTHUR.. Rodney Stone. Smith & Elder, 1896.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fourth edition without jacket on red cloth - splot down one side seam - will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Rodney Stone. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1896.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hinges cracked, fraying to top and bottom of spine. First Edition.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Doyle, arthur conan. RODNEY STONE. smith elder, 1896.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: very good black binding
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan).. Rodney Stone. Smith, Elder & Co.,, 1896.
Price: US$40.35 + shipping
Description: Eight illustrations by Sidney Paget Spine slightly darkened, otherwise a nice copy; contemporary ownership inscription on half-title page Bound in half blue morocco, cloth sides
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Rodney Stone. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1896.
Price: US$47.45 + shipping
Description: Spine damaged at head, with wear to cloth at foot and short split in cloth on back joint. First UK edition (Green/Gibson A20a) Used - Good. Good hardback in dark blue cloth with gilt
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Rodney Stone. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1896.
Price: US$49.63 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original cloth boards, gilt stamped title and anchor, b&w frontis, b&w playes, pp 366 plus publisher's catalogue. Edges and corners very rubbed with some loss, fraying spine. Good condition. Gothic mystery and boxing novel.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. Rodney Stone. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1896.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gilt lettered black cloth. 10 pp ads in rear. Top edge darkened. Front hinge split but holding. Wear and shallow chipping to head and heel of spine o/w clean copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.. Rodney Stone.. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1896.
Price: US$186.99 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. orig. black cloth, (8), 366, (10)pp. ads. Gift inscription, wear to the foot of the spine and the rear spine gutter o/w very good. Green & Gibson A20a.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Doyle, Arthur Conan.. Rodney Stone.. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1896.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. Full dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. The books is slightly cocked. There is scuffing top and bottom of spine and to corners; minor foxing prelim pages. Else EXCELLENT condition. With black & white illustrations and advert pages in rear. frontispiece + 7 ills. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 -- 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Rodney Stone. Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1896.
Price: US$249.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, first edition thus. Includes frontispiece and 7 plates illustrated by Sidney Pagot. 10 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt decoration to front board. Spine is cocked and boards are rubbed at edges and corners. Binding is sound and text is clean. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Arthur Conan Doyle's Boxing Novel, "Rodney Stone," with Eight Plates by Sidney Paget DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. [PAGET, Sidney, illustrator]. Rodney Stone. With Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1896. First English edition. Octavo (7 9/16 x 5 inches; 192 x 127 mm. ). [8], 366, [10, publisher's advertisements] pp. Eight plates by Sidney Paget (including frontispiece, with tissue guard). Publisher's black diamond-grain cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Dark brown coated endpapers. Front joint neatly repaired, otherwise a very good copy. 20,000 copies were published on 13th November 1896 priced 6/-. "âThey say that every form of knowledge comes useful [sic] sooner or later. Certainly my own experience in boxing and my very large acquaintance with the history of the prize-ring found their scope when I wrote âRodney Stone.' No one but a fighting man would ever, I think, quite understand or appreciate some of the detail.'â"Memories and Adventures (p. 273). "The author's knowledge and experience of boxing went back to his youth. In September 1894 he decided to use it in a âboxing play' which he hoped to write in conjunction with his brother-in-law, E.W. Hornung.He also envisioned a novel.During the summer of 1895 while at Upper Engadine and Caux he began the novel, having put the play aside, and it was finished in September.The book was very successful financially.The subject of boxing in the Regency period had already been touched on in âThe Brigadier in England', and there are many subsequent stories. âAn Impression of the Regency' is the one of most interest in connection with this book. It was the preliminary sketch which the author wrote to get the feel of the period, and although not intended for publication, it was published later. "The author believed that he was a pioneer, the first to get the âfocus of the Regency as the subject of Romance'. He believed that his book was an important element in the surge of interest in the sport after the turn of the century and especially during the 1920, a belief supported by the number of newspapers and magazines which reprinted the story. The author placed Rodney Stone as the first volume of the Crowborough Edition, implying that he rated it, at least at the end of his life, on a par with The White Company" (Green and Gibson, pp. 97-98). Rodney Stone was serialized in The Strand Magazine, January-December 1896, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Green and Gibson A20a.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Rodney Stone. London: Smith Elder & Co, 1896.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first impression (London: Smith Elder & Co, 1896) with advertisements to rear. Quarter bound in brown leather with five raised bands, black labels and gilt lettering with marbled boards. A fine copy with just a touch of toning to edges.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
DOYLE, Arthur Conan; Paget, Sidney. Rodney Stone. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1896, 1896.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Arthur Conan Doyle's Boxing Novel, "Rodney Stone," with Eight Plates by Sidney Paget DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. Rodney Stone. With Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1896. First edition. Octavo (7 9/16 x 5 inches; 192 x 127 mm. ). [8], 366, [12, publisher's advertisements] pp. Eight plates by Sidney Paget (including frontispiece, with tissue guard). Original black diamond-grain cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Dark brown coated endpapers. Hinges a bit cracked yet firm. Otherwise a near fine copy. Chemised in a quarter olive green morocco slipcase. "âThey say that every form of knowledge comes useful [sic] sooner or later. Certainly my own experience in boxing and my very large acquaintance with the history of the prize-ring found their scope when I wrote âRodney Stone.' No one but a fighting man would ever, I think, quite understand or appreciate some of the detail.'â"Memories and Adventures (p. 273). "The author's knowledge and experience of boxing went back to his youth. In September 1894 he decided to use it in a âboxing play' which he hoped to write in conjunction with his brother-in-law, E.W. Hornung.He also envisioned a novel.During the summer of 1895 while at Upper Engadine and Caux he began the novel, having put the play aside, and it was finished in September.The book was very successful financially.The subject of boxing in the Regency period had already been touched on in âThe Brigadier in England', and there are many subsequent stories. âAn Impression of the Regency' is the one of most interest in connection with this book. It was the preliminary sketch which the author wrote to get the feel of the period, and although not intended for publication, it was published later. "The author believed that he was a pioneer, the first to get the âfocus of the Regency as the subject of Romance'. He believed that his book was an important element in the surge of interest in the sport after the turn of the century and especially during the 1920, a belief supported by the number of newspapers and magazines which reprinted the story. The author placed Rodney Stone as the first volume of the Crowborough Edition, implying that he rated it, at least at the end of his life, on a par with The White Company" (Green and Gibson, pp. 97-98). Rodney Stone was serialized in The Strand Magazine, January-December 1896, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Green and Gibson A20a.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$768.52 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A rare Conan Doyle first edition, beautifully rebound in navy quarter leather with gold titling on the spine, five raised bands, and hand marbled front and back boards. An important Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book, and for many collectors it is a centre piece of their collection. Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel first published in 1896. The rebinding adds a great elegance, of course, but it also adds durability and quality. This is an heirloom quality binding that will sit handsomely on any Conan Doyle collector's shelf. Illustrations are by Sidney Paget and this is the true first from 1896, which means the half tone blocks are fresh and clear. This is the true English and world 1st Edition. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most important people of Great Britain. The novel interweaves Rodney's coming-of-age story with that of his friend Boy Jim's boxing endeavors, and a large portion of it deals with the famous bare-knuckle boxers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, such as Jem Belcher, John Jackson, Daniel Mendoza, Dutch Sam, and others. The book includes vignettes of a number of historical personages, notably the Prince Regent, Lord Nelson, Sir John Lade, Lord Cochrane and Beau Brummell. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Arthur Conan Doyle. Rodney Stone. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1896.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY ROOT & SON IN FULL CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE AND FLORAL PATTERNS TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS WITH BRIGHT GILT END PAGES. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS OR FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, 366 PAGES, BOOK MEASURES 7.5"x5". 125 YEARS OLD. FIRST EDITION. GIFT INSCRIPTION TO FRONT FREE PAPER FROM BINDER HERBERT ROOT TO PUBLISHER CHARLES LAURIAT. A STUNNING BOOK IN REMARKABLE CONDITION. KEPT IN CUSTOM SLIPCASE.
Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.