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Kingsley Amis. The Darkwater Hall Mystery. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1978.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 35 pages, illustrations in text by Elspeth Sojka, near fine condition in paper covers and marbled paper wrapper, paper title label on spine, published in an edition of 165 copies, this copy marked by the printer as a proof.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis. The Darkwater Hall Mystery. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1978.
Price: US$102.61 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 35 pages, illustrations in text by Elspeth Sojka, fine condition in paper covers and marbled paper wrapper, paper title label on spine, number 126 of an edition of 165 copies.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Amis, Kingsley. The Darkwater Hally Mystery. Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1978.
Price: US$102.61 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Paperback, marbled paper wraps. 20.5cm x 13.5cm. 35pp. Illus. No. 105 of a limited edition of only 165 copies. Slight edge wear to wraps only.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$147.51 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Marbled wrappers, printed paper spine-label. Edition limited to 165 numbered copies. Kingsley Amis was a keen mimic (and parodist). He took on Ian Fleming in a full-length novel, Colonel Sun (by "Robert Markham", 1968); in this short story, writing as John H. Watson MD, he takes on Conan Doyle. "On consulting my notes, their paper grown yellow and their ink brown with the passage of almost forty years," Dr Watson writes, "I find it to have been in the closing days of July, 1885, that my friend Sherlock Holmes fell victim, more completely perhaps than at any other time, to the innate melancholy of his temperament. The circumstances were not propitious . . ." First printed, in shortened form, in Playboy, May 1978. Halliwell A57.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Amis, Kingsley. The Darkwater Mystery. Tragara Press, 1978.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Description: (Edinburgh: Tragara Press 1978). First UK Edition. A softcover. 35 pages. Marbled wrappers with integral flaps and spine label. A Sherlockian story. Illustrations by Elspeth Sojka. Number 153 of 165 copies. A fine copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
AMIS, Kingsley.. The Darkwater Hall Mystery.. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh., 1978.
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 35 pages. Marbled wrappers with integral flaps and spine label. A Sherlockian story. Illustrations by Elspeth Sojka.Number 35 of 165 copies.Spine label slightly creased, otherwise fine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Amis (Kingsley). Conan Doyle (Arthur). The Darkwater Hall Mystery. Tragara Press, Edinburgh,, 1978.
Price: US$175.09 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Elspeth Sojka 8vo Fine copy The story first appeared in Playboy Magazine (May 1978). A splendid pastiche of Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes stories, but with Doctor Watson as the detective. Set in Baskerville and hand printed in an edition of 165 copies of which this is unnumbered. Marbled wrappers with printed spine label
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Amis (Kingsley). The Darkwater Hall Mystery.. Tragara Press, 1978.
Price: US$179.57 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 118/150 COPIES (from an edition of 165 copies) printed on Saunder's Cream laid paper, 3 illustrations (1 full-page) by Elspeth Sojka, top corners of a few pages creased, pp. 35, crown 8vo, original marbled wrappers, backstrip with printed label, edges roughtrimmed, very good. A Sherlock Holmes spoof, gleefully undertaken by Amis, who writes as Dr Watson - originally printed in Playboy that same year. (Halliwell 57)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$223.85 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 98 of 165 copies, 8vo, illustrations by Elspeth Sojka, original marbled wrappers, printed label to spine, a fine copy. A worthy contribution to the Sherlock Holmes mythos courtesy of one of England's more established authors.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
AMIS, Kingsley. The Darkwater Hall Mystery. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1978.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrations by Elspeth Sojka. Octavo. 35pp. Marbled wrappers with publisher's printed paper spine label. A fine copy; in publisher's unprinted envelope. Limited to 165 numbered copies. Inscribed by Amis: "Glad that Michael Curtis enjoyed it, Kingsley Amis"
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Amis, Kingsley. The Darkwater Hall Mystery. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1978.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Number 8 of 15 copies on Saunders, signed by the author and specially bound. Illustrations by Elspeth Sojka 35, [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 15 Copies, Signed. Kingsley Amis writes a fine Sherlock Holmes pastiche, a late memoir of Doctor Watson, first published in shortened form in Playboy for May 1978. Watson had an eye for the ladies and Amis plays on this trait. Halliwell A57a Black cloth spine, titled in gilt, marbled boards. As new Illustrations by Elspeth Sojka 35, [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. 8vo Number 8 of 15 copies on Saunders, signed by the author and specially bound.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.