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CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur.:. The Lost World.. London: Pan Books Ltd, 1950.
Price: US$4.52 + shipping
Description: 2nd printing of this Pan edition. "The story of four men's expedition to a remote plateau in South America, cut off from the surrounding country by unscaleable perpindicular cliffs.Strange creatures long extinct in the outside world have survived from prehistoric times." Pp.224, pages tanned. Paperback, has small chipped loss to base of spine. G.
Seller: CHILTON BOOKS, SUDBURY, United Kingdom
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. THE HERITAGE PRESS, USA, 1950.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Heritage Press, USA, 1950, hardcover, limited edition, good book with beginning spine separation, no jacket, unmarked, a definitive test, corrected and edited by Edgar W. Smith with introduction by Vincent Starrett, not remaindered, book club or library
Seller: MySEAbooks, Harlingen, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Solid hardcover in black slipcase, both in very good condition. Raised cameo of author on front cover. Interior tight and unmarked. Black and white illustrations by Sydney Paget, Frederick Dorr Steele, George Hutchinson and D.H. Friston. Volume one only: 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.
Seller: Friends of the Redwood Libraries, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes. Heritage Press, New York, 1950.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, black cloth with gilt titling over patterned paper with a black embossed cameo of Holmes, illustrated with the Strand magazine art by Frederick Dorr Steve, Sidney Paget and others, a handsome reproduction of the 3-volume Limited Editions Club set combining A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, introduced by Vincent Starrett. Sandglass newsletter laid in, fine in fine black slipcase.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Light brown octavo, black spine, BCE, gilt to spine, 764 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. Publisher newspaper article to rear of book. || Contents: A study in scarlet -- The sign of the four -- The adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Private investigators -- England -- Fiction. Extremely gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, exceedingly mild wear to corners, moderate spotting to fore-edges, light brown soiling mark to fore-edge, faint soiling mark to spine, bright pages, binding is tight, exceedingly mild rubbing to slipcase spine head and foot, light soiling to slipcase, else Near Fine(-) in Near Fine(+) slipcase.
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: one of the three slipcases is missing, Very slight wear to the books, the slip cases are very good
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.