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Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Burgandy half leather biund, gilt title to spine, gilt banded spine. 804 pages. Gutters v. good. slight wear to corners. pages very good and clean. would need extra postage, especially overseas. Heavy book. Includes a serialised story (complete) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is not a Holmers story, though. "The Tragedy of the Korosko". Illustrated by numerous line drawings.
Seller: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, United Kingdom
Price: US$41.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Contributions by A. Conan Doyle (The Tragedy of the Korosko), George Cruikshank, Grant Allen, and many others. Numerous illustrations and photographs. 804 pages. Wear to spine and cover corners and edges. Size: 245mm Tall, 8vo
Seller: Andmeister Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1897 first edition. Size octavo, 9.75" tall, 119 pages. The pages are numbered from 482 to 600 plus 35 pages of brilliant advertisements at the front and the rear. Illustrated paper covers. Condition good, chipping and rubbing to edges and age/shelf darkening, rusted staples that have marked the paper, tears to rear cover, tears at the lower inner edge of the advertising pages at the rear, generally the pages are in nice clean condition inside. Contains the first part of Arthur Conan Doyle's "Powerful new serial story" "The Tragedy of the Korosko.
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart copy of volume IV of George Newnes' 'The Strand Magazine', lavishly illustrated with vignette photographs and illustrations throughout the text. Featuring part of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel 'The Tragedy of the Korosko'. The Strand Magazine ran 711 issues between 1891 and 1950, and was founded by George Newnes. It comprised short fiction and articles regarding general fiction, and was immediately popular, circulating around half a million copies a month from the 1890s into the 1930s. Arthur Conan Doyle"s "Sherlock Holmes" saw their first publication in The Strand, as well as short stories by writers such as Agatha Christie and P. G. Wodehouse.Featuring chapter IV of Conan Doyle's 'Tragedy of the Korosko'.With contributors including Bret Harte, Mary Angela Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and Grant Allen, and illustrators including Sidney Paget, H. R. Millar, Gordon Browne, Warwick Goble and Paul Hardy, to name a few.George Newnes (1851-1910) is considered a founding father of popular journalism; he was also a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party for twenty years.Covering the period of July to December 1897.Illustrated throughout the text with vignette engravings by various hands. In a contemporary full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with a few scattered marks to the boards, slight bumping to the extremities and some wear to the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Doyle Arthur Conan. Strand Magazine Volume XIV. George Newnes, London, 1897.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Offered here is Volume XIV (Jul-Dec 1897) of the Strand Magazine in the original publishers decorated blue cloth. Quite a nice copy. Featured in this volume are Chapters IV through IX (Conclusion) of THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 804 & 804 pp. Page edges foxed. Blue boards bumped & worn. Some foxing throughout. Includes "Life on a Greenland Whaler," and "The Tragedy of the Korosko" by Arthur Conan Doyle, the latter of which is complete in 8 parts across the 2 volumes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A CONAN DOYLE The Tragedy of the Korosko. The complete novel in the Strand magazine. 2 vols. Jan-June and July-Dec 1897, comprising of the complete story by Arthur Conan Doyle and illustrated by Sidney Paget. Published by George a Newnes in original publishers boards. Many other interesting content, including Glimpses Of Nature by Grant Allen, articles on Queen Victoria s possessions, Charles Dickens, letters to Sant Claws and much more. Profusely illustrated. In good condition. Magazines are all complete with all contents and index s. They have light soiling and wear to edges and corners of boards. Pages are very good. The first and last few pages of vol 13 having mild foxing. Hinge cracked but still holding. A rare and complete set of the serialisation of this famous novel. The first time it appeared in print. Please see pictures, more on request. Please see other listings including many more Strand Magazines. Worldwide post. Buyers from Canada please contact before purchase.
Seller: JS Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$159.12 + shipping
Description: 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text; original publisher's binding of pictorial blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, neatly recased, backstrips mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a good, clean set. First appearance of Doyle's desert drama, present here in the original eight instalments with a total of forty-six illustrations by Paget (the book version, published later in the same year, contains only forty). 'The author visited Egypt at the end of 1895 and in January of the following year went with his family on a Cook's tour up the Nile to Wady Halfa. The threat from the Dervishes was then very real, a serious menance to civilisation and was the cause of some anxiety. Two months later the long-expected war broke out, and he chose to accompany the special force as a correspondent for the Westminster Gazette. He was at Korosko on 10 April and during the weeks that followed became well versed in the landscape and political realities of the country' (Green & Gibson). The first volume also contains Doyle's illustrated account 'Life on a Greenland Whaler'. SCARCE. Green & Gibson, p.106.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$247.97 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of Peter F. Walkey with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; 804 pages. Notes; First appearance of tragedy of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Tragedy of the Korosko'. Subjects; The Strand Magazine. Arthur Conan Doyle. 'The Tragedy of the Korosko'. 1897. Periodicals. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of Peter F. Walkey with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; 804 pages. Notes; First appearance of tragedy of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Tragedy of the Korosko'. Subjects; The Strand Magazine. Arthur Conan Doyle. 'The Tragedy of the Korosko'. 1897. Periodicals. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Description: [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. 12 parts in their original light blue paper covers. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Presented in a navy blue quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands and a fleece lining. Some spines badly abraded; some covers detached, but all present. Fair. All 12 parts of 'An African Millionaire', as well as 'Rodney Stone', chapters 10 to 22; 'The Tragedy of the Korosko', chapters 1 and 2, and 'Life on a Greenland Whaler' by Doyle; and 'The Throne of the Thousand Terrors' by Le Queux.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$435.32 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked half-calf over buckram boards. Slightest suggestion of dust-dulling, with some rubbing/scuffing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 1 pages; The Strand Magazine, Feb, 1897 to July, 1897. Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English - Periodicals. Newnes, George 1851-1910. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859-1930. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$484.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked half-calf over buckram boards. Slightest suggestion of dust-dulling, with some rubbing/scuffing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 1 pages; The Strand Magazine, Feb, 1897 to July, 1897. Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English - Periodicals. Newnes, George 1851-1910. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859-1930. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.xxviii; 481-600; xxix-xxxvi; pp.xxxii; 601-804; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 120; xxxiii-xliv; pp.xxiv; 121-240; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxiv; 241-360; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxxii; 361-480; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxii; 481-600; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xl; 601-804; xli-lx. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled and illustrated in dark blue, stapled twice, and priced at 6d. Presented in a navy fleece-lined quarter morocco clamshell box, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and blue cloth over sides. Internally clean. Covers lightly handled, but with heavy rubbing and some chipping to spines, including some careful repairs. Very good. Containing all nine parts of Doyle's modern Egyptian adventure, six parts of Allen's 'Glimpses of Nature' series, and numerous short pieces by authors including Bret Harte, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom