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Price: US$708.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Strand Magazine July-Dec 1901 & Jan-June 1902. Two volumes, including the complete serialisation of The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Arthur Conan Doyle. All nine parts. Two hardback volumes in original light blue cloth boards with Gold gilt titles to spine and scene to front. Gold pages edges. Published by George Newnes. Profusely illustrated throughout. In very good condition and all complete with index's. Bright boards, clean pages. Some cracking to inner hinge of one volume, but binding holding fine. Minimal shelf wear to corners and edges. Nice bright spines. A very nice set which has survived in very good condition. A very rare set of the first appearance of possibly the most famous Sherlock Holmes long story. Please see pictures, more on request. Please see my other Sherlock Holmes first editions. Postage can be combined. Please don't hesitate to contact me for more information.
Seller: JS Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price, Eleanor C.. Original Typescript of Angelot : A Story of the First Empire. Circa 1901, 1901.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: 412 pages + handwritten title page in black and red, plus 4 over-sized black and white illustrations by Frank T. Merrill, these being the illustrations used in the American edition, rather than those by Tom Robinson which appear in the English version. The typescript has numerous minor manuscript alterations and corrections in the author's hand, with other small notes and the chapter subtitles also handwritten, it is signed with the author's name and address to the reverse of several pages in ink or pencil: "E. C. Price, St. Barnabas Vicarage, Worcester". It is firmly bound in black Morocco with hardwearing dark green cloth boards, simply lettered and decorated in gilt, with marbled endpapers, the outer boards are slightly bumped, rubbed, marked and bowed. The typescript and illustrations are on paper of varying sizes, leading to short closed tears to the edges of some pages and soiling and discolouration to exposed margins, the top edge of the block has been neatly trimmed and gilded. The tale is a historical romance with a happy ever after ending, set in post-revolutionary republican France, two young lovers with dangerous Royalist sympathies have to win through against the machinations of a much older, coarse, low-born but highly favoured General in Napoleon's army, and the young girl's cruel, scheming mother. There is violence, intrigue, misunderstandings, Gothic motifs and the looming spectre of the Emperor of France himself, much to be enjoyed and all highly entertaining and well-written. With the typescript is a U.K. first edition of the novel, published by George Newnes in 1902, which is quite uncommon in its own right, and includes among the adverts to the rear one for Arthur Conan Doyle's "New" sherlock Holmes novel, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. There are no ownership marks in the book so it is unclear whether the two have always been together, or one was paired with the other for reference. Eleanor Catharine Price (1847-1933) was a prolific author and journalist, perhaps best remembered now for her ghost stories, some of which appeared in the famous Victorian supernatural anthology, Dreamland and Ghostland, and deserves to be more widely known.
Seller: Jonathan Frost Rare Books Limited, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$1381.11 + shipping
Description: Provenance; Anthony Dyson's copy. Disbound extracts rather crudely bound in later stiff card wrappers with the appropriate Strand cover (XXII) laid back as a decorative finish. The serialisation preceded the Newnes publication of the novel by a year or so following public outcry over Doyle's dramatic closing of the Holmes series with the apparently fatal fall at Reichenbach. Subjects; Holmes, Sherlock ; Fiction. Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) ; Fiction. Private investigators England ; Fiction.Dogs ; Fiction. Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) ; Fiction.Blessing and cursing ; Fiction. Dartmoor (England) ; Fiction. GenreDetective and mystery stories. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$1510.00 + shipping
Description: Provenance; Anthony Dyson's copy. Disbound extracts rather crudely bound in later stiff card wrappers with the appropriate Strand cover (XXII) laid back as a decorative finish. The serialisation preceded the Newnes publication of the novel by a year or so following public outcry over Doyle's dramatic closing of the Holmes series with the apparently fatal fall at Reichenbach. Subjects; Holmes, Sherlock ; Fiction. Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) ; Fiction. Private investigators England ; Fiction.Dogs ; Fiction. Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) ; Fiction.Blessing and cursing ; Fiction. Dartmoor (England) ; Fiction. GenreDetective and mystery stories. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2576.53 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Strand Magazine First Publication George Newnes 1901. The extremely rare (none currently available online) first ever printing of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Published between August 1901 and April 1902, a year before the first edition Newnes novel, and 1903-1904 (Return of Sherlock Holmes) comprising of 'The Adventure of the Empty House', ' The Adventure of the Norwood Builder', 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men', 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist', 'The Adventure of the Priory School', 'The Adventure of Black Peter', 'The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton', 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons', 'The Adventure of the three Students', 'The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez', 'The Adventure of the missing Three-Quarter', 'The Adventure of Abbey Grange' and the 'Adventure of the second Stain'. Handsomely bound item contains the complete run of all 32 installments of Hound of the Baskervilles and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The original pages, fully illustrated throughout with Sidney Paget's famous work, are all clean, with no tears of nicks. The hardback binding has a Strand Magazine cover on the front board. Many more images available on request.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom