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Arthur Conan Doyle. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. George Newnes, 1896.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is wrapped in a protective plastic sleeve. Cover is sunned and lightly worn, not affecting legibility of text. Spine is bumped and cracked, but binding is secure. Text block is foxed, visible on some pages but not affecting legibility of text. Front and back free endpapers are tanned. Pages are otherwise unmarked.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. George Newnes, 1896.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Description: Doyle's humorous Napoleonic stories. Bookplate of Christian Head (wife of the ex army Captain and shipping magnate James Christian-Head of Inverailort castle) to the front pastedown. First edition, with adverts to rear dated 10.2.96. Covers unevenly water stained otherwise a VG copy
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please note that this book is missing one plate at page 140 - only 23 of the 24 plates present. ***First state of the true first edition. ***Very good in burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and front board and small black embossed publisher's design to front and back board. Owners small, neat contemporaneous name and date in black ink to top of front free endpaper: 'John Betts, October 1896.' Edges and corners of boards rubbed - corners bumped. Spine tight. Head and tail of spine rubbed and slightly frayed. Gilt to spine slightly dulled. Top edge of text-block darkened. All edges of text-block rough-cut (as called for). Very small light red edge stain to fore-edge of front and rear free endpaper. ***334 pages plus "Publications of George Newnes Limited" eight-page catalogue of recently published titles to rear, dated 10-2-96. 196 mm x 146 mm. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. George Newnes, 1896.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Description: Doyle's humorous Napoleonic stories. First edition, with adverts to rear dated 10.2.96. Names and dates to front endpaper.Covers with a few small watermarks particularly to rear cover and edges. Small coffee splash to margin of page 25 (not affecting text) One plate loose and wear to gutters at endpaper, otherwise a VG copy
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, first printing, with adverts dated 10.2.96. 8vo. pp viii + [1] - 334, [2], 8, blank, followed by 8 pp adverts at the end. Tissue guarded frontispiece and 24 illustrated plates. Publisher's original red pictorial cloth, gilt lettered, spine slightly faded and rolled at head and tail. Owner inscribed to front endpaper, dated Non 1897, by Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952), British writer and literary critic and Cambridge contemporary of Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. George Newnes Ltd., 1896.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In good condition. Minor wear to extremities. Rubbing to corners, hinges. Spine extremes are lightly rounded from shelf wear. Slight soiling to cloths surface. Old hand ownership dated 1896 on front flyleaf. Interior lightly toned with nominal foxing. Free of markings. Slightly shaken mid-gutter. Binding intact. Please see photos. 1st edition. 7,500 copies were published on 15th February, 1896 priced 6/- Brigadier Gerard is the comedic hero of a series of seventeen historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and - by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view - English manners and attitudes. These stories were originally published in the Strand Magazine between December 1894 and September 1903.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD .. George Newnes, London, 1896.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-334 [335-336: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank] + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "10.2.96" inserted at rear, 24 inserted plates with illustrations by W. B. Wollen, original red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, edges untrimmed. First edition. 7,500 copies printed. First collection of tales of this Napoleonic soldier. Green and Gibson A19a. Very slight shelf lean, hint of sunning to spine panel, several tiny damp stains to cloth, one at upper front corner tip, the other to rear panel, lower front corner tip bruised, neat owner's names in ink on front paste-down and half title leaf, overall, a very good, bright copy. Difficult to find in nice condition. (#75340)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.