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Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scarce First Edition (First Issue) Near Very Good Crown 8vo. Original maroon cloth, decorated in black and lettered in gilt to spine and black to front cover. (Headband rubbed) viii + 399pps. + 32pps. ads. (dated January 1890) Floral endpapers with previous owner names.(Front inner hinge cracked & contents a little shaken). (Green & Gibson A6a)
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Firm of Girdlestone. Chatto and Windus, London, 1890.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original red cloth, black stamping. A series of disastrous speculations by the elder Girdlestone financially ruins the firm. After keeping the impending bankruptcy a secret from everyone for a time, he tells his son (whom he has fooled with a dummy ledger) about it, who is disgusted by his father's rashness. They resort to chicanery to save the firm. They plan to send an agent to the Ural mountains who will claim to have found diamond mines. Very Good, mild cocking, some light fading at spine, bookplate at front pastedown.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 399pp + 32ads. Burgandy bds, corners & spine ends bumped, edges rubbed. Back bd shows minor rubbing and soiling. Titles in black, and 2 blocks of black vig panes, to front. Titles in gilt, and 1 block vig in black, to spine. Blind stamped vig to centre of back bd. Decorated patern to end papers, both front and back f.e.p. are faded. Owners name to front f.e.p.Title and dedication page joined along there top edge since printing, obviously never cut. Interior foxed.
Seller: Harry Righton, evesham, United Kingdom