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Arthur Conan Doyle. Round The Fire Stories. Smith, Elder & Co, Waterloo Place, London, 1908.
Price: US$50.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: HB Believed 1st Ed. Red cloth boards. Gilt titles + illustration front. Gilt titles spine. 19.5 x 13cm. 372 pages + 4 further pages of publishers listings. 1 b/w illustration - frontis: 'I Burst With A Shriek Into My Own Life'. Preface by AC Doyle from Windlesham, Crowborough. 17 stories. Starts: The Leather Funnel. Includes: The Pot of Caviare. The Sealed Room. The Brown Hand. Ends: B 24. Condition: Stain on front cover centre by seam and down seam. See pic. Further discolouration marks front and back. Small tears top and bottom spine. Wear on corners, boards showing. E. Cheeseman, newsagent, stationer & fancy good dealer, Blandford stamp to both o/ps. Red stain central seam lower part. Slight foxing opening papers. Seam cracking lower end after further works by ACD page, whole text still holding well. Some rough cut pages curling bottom of binding left. End papers slight red stain top of seam, paste downs beginning to crack in seam. Otherwise clean, good colour. Fair ++ condition.
Seller: Buybyebooks, Honiton, United Kingdom
Arthur Conan Doyle. Round the Fire Stories. Smith, Elder & Co., 1908.
Price: US$152.89 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Maroon cloth boards with gilt decoration & lettering. Significant wear and marking particularly to the rear cover. Binding fairly loose (contents page entirely so)- well thumbed! No owner signatures etc. Language: eng
Seller: The Bookshop on the Heath Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan.. Round the Fire Stories. FIRST EDITION.. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1908.
Price: US$169.11 + shipping
Description: First edition. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine gilt lettering and illustration on front board. 372 pp plus book ads. In near very good condition. Cloth bright though spine has sunned somewhat. A little worn and rubbed at head and tail of spine. Hinges secure.Tastefull bookplate affixed to front pastedown. With a frontispiece by A. Castaigne.
Seller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer, Stuttgart, Germany
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Round the Fire Stories. Smith, Elder & Co,, London, United Kingdom, 1908.
Price: US$247.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition, First print. A first edition, ( First Impression), Octavo. frontispiece, [8], 372 + [4] pp. publisher's catalogue. Original red pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt Rubbing to the boards , some soiling, darkening, internally foxing to the end pages and some early pages, Tight binding A good copy of this collection of seventeen stories, with a fantasy and horror theme.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Round The Fire Stories. Smith, Elder, & Co, London, 1908.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Large 12mo. In original red pictoral cloth binding. With embossed, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Bottom edge untrimmed. 6000 copies printed. Former owner signature to front endoage. "Originally published in 1908 and out of print for more than half a century, this collection of stories, complete with a Preface by the author, presents Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at his finest. These 17 tales of suspense and adventure are meant to be read round the fire on a cold winter's night and include murder, madness, ghosts, unsolved crimes, mysterious disappearances, and more." Very Good. Cloth darkened air spine. Top spine end chipped. Binding tight. A few tape shadows on pastedowns.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. ROUND THE FIRE STORIES. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1908.
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (8) -372 pages + (4) pages of adverts frontis illustration by A. Castaigne . Contents clean and tight, with no inscription. Publishers dark red cloth with gilt title to spine and upper board with vignette of " Examining the leather funnel' below title, light rubbing to head of spine. Cloth clean and tight with no stains or splits.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Round the Fire Stories. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1908.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 372, [4] pp. Frontispiece. Cloth, gilt lettered and decoration, good. (24495).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: A Collection of Short Stories to be Read Round the Fire on a Winter's Night "Concerned with the Grotesque and with the Terrible" DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Round the Fire Stories. With a frontispiece by A. Castaigne. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 191 x 124 mm.). [viii], [1]-372, [373-376, publisher's catalog] pp. With a tipped-in frontispiece by A. Castaigne. Publisher's dark red cloth, front cover blocked and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, white endpapers, lower edges uncut. Minimal darkening to spine, a few slight marginal smudges, otherwise near fine. 6,000 copies were published on 24th September 1908 priced 6/-. "In a previous volume, "The Green Flag," I have assembled a number of my stories which deal with warfare or with sport. In the present collection those have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible - such tales as might well be read "round the fire" upon a winter's night. This would be my ideal atmosphere for such stories, if an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the light and hanging of his picture. However, if they have the good fortune to give pleasure to any one, at any time or place, their author will be very satisfied." (Preface). Green & Gibson A33a.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. ROUND THE FIRE STORIES. London Smith, Elder & Co. 1908, 1908.
Price: US$439.54 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 8vo. red cloth hardback, gilt titles to spine and gilt titles and vignette to upper board. 372pp. plus 4pp. Advertisements at end. B/w frontispiece illustration by A. Castaigne. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Foxing to foredge. Spine very slightly faded and soiled. Couple of paler spots to boards and slight wear to top and base of spine (please see photos). Overall a VERY GOOD COPY. (SHELF 2) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Round the Fire Stories. Smith, Elder & Co., 1908.
Price: US$445.91 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition published by Smith, Elder and Co in 1908. This is a near fine copy. The boards are in excellent condition with very little wear at all. The deep red cloth has an even tone throughout including the spine. There is a faint cup ring mark on the back board. The odd corner tip is rubbed. The book is square and the pages are tight to the binding. The pages are also very clean and white, with no foxing or previous owners marks. Overall rare as it is in near fine collectible condition. 17 short stories by Conan Doyle about, in his words, the grotesque and the terrible. Includes the story - the beetle hunter.
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. [8], 372 + [4] pp. publisherÕs catalogue. Original red pictorial cloth. Some corners lightly bent. A very good, bright copy. First edition of this collection of seventeen stories, most with a fantasy or horror theme. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Green and Gibson A33a. Wolff 1914.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Round the Fire Stories. London Smith, Elder & Co. 1908, 1908.
Price: US$486.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. [viii], 372 + 4 pages publisher's adspp. Octavo. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt titles on spine and gilt titles and vignette of two men on front board. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped. Gilding bright. Engraved bookplate of James Foster Hasbrouck to front pastedown. Lower edge uncut. Occasional light foxing, mostly to preliminary pages, else internally clean. very good An attractive copy of this collection of stories by the master crime and mystery author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, most famous for his Sherlock Holmes stories. With 17 stories and illustrated frontis.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Round The Fire Stories. London; Smith, Elder; 1908;, 1908.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st ed. (6,000 copies); NF with lt foxing to a few pages.Illustrated frontispiece; A very nice copy.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.