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CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.-. The last Galley.. Smith Elder & Co., 1911, London., 1911.

Price: US$8.91 + shipping

Description: 19x12. Tela. 312 pgs. Texto en inglés. Ilustraciones. Leves desgarros en el lomo. 615191

Seller: Librería y Editorial Renacimiento, S.A., VALENCINA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN, Spain

Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE LAST GALLEY: Impressions And Tales (With Illustrations). Smith, Elder, & Co, 1911.

Price: US$32.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Name of the previous owner. Publication of 298 Pages. Complete with 2 illustrations. Frontispiece in color. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally there are minor marks, the text remains bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

Arthur Conan Doyle. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales (With Illustrations). Smith, Elder and Co, 1911.

Price: US$55.55 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1911. Smith, Elder and Co . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Red boards. Gilt titles. Slight edgewear. Boards marked. Spine worn. Spine sunned. End pages discoloured. Foxing throughout. End page foxing. 7 x 4.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.. The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales.. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1911.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition (first printing) of this collection of eighteen supernatural tales, of which 6,000 copies were printed. Crown 8vo. 298pp + xiv publisher's catalogue at the rear. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board and with a small gilt-stamped illustration. With a colour frontispiece plate by N.C.Wyeth, loose but just holding, and one further unaccredited monochrome plate. Cloth at the backstrip lightly faded, and just a little rubbed and frayed at the head and base. Some browning to the endpapers and spotting to the preliminary and concluding leaves. Contemporary former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front endpaper. Quite a nice, bright copy. Green & Gibson A35a.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

Conan Doyle, Arthur. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1911.

Price: US$129.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Spine lightly sunned, and chipped. Light stain to front. Gutters a little weak, the odd patch of foxing or fingerprint, else pp good. Size: 12mo

Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom

DOYLE, Arthur Doyle. The last galley: impressions and tales. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911.

Price: US$147.96 + shipping

Description: 1st UK edition, 1st printing. Conforms to Green /Gibson A35a. Owner's name dated 1911 on front free end paper; some foxing, quite severe on early pages & ads at rear; binding tight; speckled loss of colour on boards; spine faded & bumped, with some pale flecking; gilt on front board bright. Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth with gilt

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Arthur Conan Doyle. The Last Galley. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911.

Price: US$175.44 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A rebound first edition copy of this brilliant short story collection by the renowned author Arthur Conan Doyle. The first edition.A volume of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including a total of eighteen gripping tales.This volume includes 'The Last Galley', 'Through the Veil', 'The Coming of the Huns', 'The Silver Mirror'' 'Giant Maximin', and more.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and one monochrome plate.Collated, complete.Fourteen pages of adverts to the rear. Rebound in a half morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, smart, with some light marks to the leather. Minor bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional spot. Frontispiece is detached but present. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Conan Doyle, Arthur. The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales.. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1911.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Doyle's collection of seventeen short stories, which he considered his favorite among all of his works. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition. Published in an edition of 6000 copies, Arthur Conan Doyle later stated he would select this volume "if all my work were to be destroyed save only that one single section which I might elect to preserve." Featuring 'The Blighting of Captain Sharkey' and 'The Silver Mirror', the stories were later reprinted as 'Tales of Long Ago' (Green and Gibson). A35a.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Arthur Conan Doyle. The Last Galley. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1911.

Price: US$207.93 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A smart first edition of this collection of short stories, by noted detective fiction author, Arthur Conan Doyle. The first edition. One of only six thousand copies. Green & Gibson A35. With a colour frontispiece by N. C. Wyeth and a further monochrome plate by Harry Rountree. Collated complete. With fourteen pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. A volume of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including a total of eighteen gripping tales. This volume includes 'The Last Galley', 'Through the Veil', 'The Coming of the Huns', 'The Silver Mirror'' 'Giant Maximin', and more. In the original red publisher's binding. Externally generally smart with bumping to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Damp staining to the extremities of the boards, with tidemarks to the gutter and extremities of the pastedowns. Front hinge slightly strained but firm. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. THE LAST GALLEY - IMPRESSIONS AND TALES. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER & CO, 1911.

Price: US$259.91 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo, first edition, pp,vi,298, coloured frontispiece and one black and white plate by Harry Rountree, gilt titled and decorated red cloth, publisher's catalogue to rear, foxing to prelims,fore-edge and title-page, light age-toning. A decent copy. Collection of eighteen supernatural tales - 6,000 copies printed.

Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom

DOYLE, Arthur Conan; WYETH, N.C. illustrator; ROUNTREE, Harry, illustrator. Last Galley, The. London: Smith, Elder & Co.,, 1911, 1911.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: From Historical Romance to Swashbuckling Pirate Adventure. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle. With Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 190 x 124 mm.). [viii], [1-3]-298, [299-312, publisher's catalog] pp. With a frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth and one plate by Harry Rountree. Publisher's dark red cloth, front cover blocked and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, white endpapers. With a neat early ink inscription dated 1911 on front pastedown. Some very light, mainly marginal foxing to first few leaves only. Minimal rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy. 6,000 copies were published on 26th April 1911 priced 6/-. The Last Galley is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle that was first published in The London Magazine in November 1910 and then in the 1911 collection of short stories, The Last Galley; Impressions And Tales". This fantastic collection includes stories spanning a multitude of genres. From historical romance to swashbuckling pirate adventure, this volume has got it all, and will appeal to a wide range of readers. Between 1910 and 1922, N.C. Wyeth did nineteen illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's fiction novels - The White Company (1922) having thirteen of them. Green & Gibson A35a.

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.

Arthur Conan Doyle. The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales. Smith, Elder & Co, London UK, 1911.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original red cloth boards with gilt illustrations and lettering on the boards. Faded spine. Mild wear tot he boards. Some foxing within the text. With colour frontis illustration and black and white illustration facing page 273. 8vo 298 with fourteen pages of publishers advertisements. 

Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The last galley: impressions and tales. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1911.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: With 2 plates (coloured frontispiece by N. C. Wyeth and with a single plate by Harry Rountree). Original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold; an excellent, uncut copy with only very slight indications of foxing. First edition. Divided into two parts, Doyle presents a mixed collection of seventeen stories including The contest, An iconoclast, The red star, De profundis, and The terror of Blue John Gap. Many of the sketches portray "various crises in the story of the human race, [and] are to be judged as experiments in that direction.".

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.