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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Doings of Raffles Haw. Cassell and Company London, 1892.
Price: US$247.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback first edition. Spine slightly cocked binding slightly cracked but holding firm.Original blue cloth, gilt lettering at spine. Novel of a millionaire in Staffordshire who sets about to alleviate the misery of the town folk, but discovers that his efforts do nothing to improve the citizens themselves. Attractive Very Good volume, 256 pages with ads at rear.
Seller: Trinity Books, Boyle, ROSCO, Ireland
Price: US$309.40 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (256 pages). Subjects; Paranormal fiction. English fiction. English fiction; 20th century. Drama. English literature; 20th century. English literature. Mystery stories. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$324.09 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (256 pages). Subjects; Paranormal fiction. English fiction. English fiction; 20th century. Drama. English literature; 20th century. English literature. Mystery stories. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Doings Of Raffles Haw. Cassell, LOndon, 1892.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth, gilt spine title, top edge gilt. 8pp of publisher's ads present in rear. Light wear to the edges and corners, former owner bookplate, else a very good copy. Only 2001 copies printed according to the bibliography. Green, A9 .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Doings of Raffles Haw. Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1892.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering at spine. Novel of a millionaire in Staffordshire who sets about to alleviate the misery of the town folk, but discovers that his efforts do nothing to improve the citizens themselves. Attractive Very Good volume, small leather bookplate at front pastedown.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Original blue cloth, very minor wear to head and foot of spine; interior excellent. Small bookseller's label on front paste-down. First edition, printed in an initial run of 2001 copies. The tale of a modern alchemist who becomes a billionaire and corrupts the community he wants to help. Written while Doyle was on a sojourn in Vienna, in the same year that The adventures of Sherlock Holmes was first published. The creator of the most famous detective in literature, Doyle (1859-1930) produced his first story at the age of six. After completing his medical studies at Edinburgh University, Doyle practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire for six years until he became a full-time writer. As a medical student, Doyle had several future writers as his colleagues, including James Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson. However, he was most influenced by his professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, whose skills of observation, logic, deduction and diagnosis were later infused into the persona of Sherlock Holmes. After the death of his son, Doyle became interested in occultism, and fairies, having spent more than a million dollars supporting the existence of "little people." He caused an international sensation when he published a favorable account of the "fairy photographs," which purported to have captured fairies dancing in the air. The photograph was later proven to be a fake. Doyle became the president of several important spiritualist organizations, and later opened the Psychic Bookshop in London. He was knighted in 1902.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Doings of Raffle Haw. Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1892.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gilt lettered blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Book about altruism with a little alchemy thrown in. 8 pages of undated ads in rear.2001 copies printed. Spine cocked but still a sharp copy copy with edgewear and offset to endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Doings Of Raffles Haw. London; Cassell; 1892;, 1892.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st ed.; A near fine copy, one of 2001 ptd w. 8 pp undated ads, dark blue cl, bright title in gold on spine; some foxing to endpapers, pp uncut; scarce.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.