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CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR. The Tragedy of the Korosko. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1898.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue.Spine somewhat cocked, with small repairs at head and base, some soiling to a few pages of text, but a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Tragedy of the Korosko. Smith, Elder & Co., 1898.
Price: US$39.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1898. No edition remarks. 333 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to half title page. Droplet marks to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine. Book has forward lean. Library number to spine. Mild scratching and marking to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Doyle, A[rthur] Conan. The Tragedy of the Korosko. Smith, Elder & Co., 1898.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Description: With forty full-page illustrations. 190 x 128mm, dark red pictorial cloth, lettered & blocked in gilt on spine & upper cover, pp.xii, 334, 6pp publishers' catalogue, black endpapers, top & fore-edges untrimmed. Contemporary ownership name & later affectionate inscription by the late writer & broadcaster Miles Kington on half-title. Spine rubbed, chipped at ends & partially split along lower edge, internally clean & tight. "This book has been materially enlarged and altered since its appearance in serial form." [Author's note]
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Tragedy of Korosko. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1898.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1898. Hardcover. Book Condition: G. 1st Edition. First edition bound in red cloth with gold lettering & front board ill ustration. 40 full page b&w ills. by Paget. Good+ copy, Spine has frays and chips to top, spine a tad loose, but text is tight Size: 8vo
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Songs of Action: First Edition. Smith, Elder, & Co., 1898.
Price: US$81.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Light stain along front edge and rear inside edge. 1898 Hard Cover. viii, 136 pp. Original blue cloth, gold banner on front cover, gilt titles. A collection of story poems by the author of the popular Sherlock Holmes detective series. CONTENTS: The Song of the Bow; Cremona; The Storming Party; The Frontier Line; Corporal Dick's Promotion; A Forgotten Tale; Pennarby Mine; A Rover Chanty; A Ballad of the Ranks; A Lay of the Links; The Dying Whip; Master; H.M.S. 'Foudroyant'; The Farnshire Cup; The Groom's Story; With the Chiddingfolds; A Hunting Morning; The Old Gray Fox; 'Ware Holes; The Home-Coming of the 'Eurydice'; The Inner Room; The Irish Colonel; The Blind Archer; A Parable; A Tragedy; The Passing; The Franklin's Maid; The Old Huntsman.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$105.22 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: first USA edition, published a week and a half before the UK edition by Smith, Elder, & Co.; light blue publisher's pictorial cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; lettering is brilliant; lettering in black on front cover; no signatures, inscriptions or other internal markings; hinges tight; spine is square; 277 pp followed by one blank and 10 pp of publisher's ads; 32 full page illustrations by Sidney Paget, all present in excellent condition. Green & Gibson A22c
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Conan Doyle Arthur. The tragedy of the korosko. Smith, Elder & Co, 1898.
Price: US$118.80 + shipping
Description: In-12° toile de l'éditeur rouge, titre doré, illustration dorée ornant le premier plat représentant trois personnages, 333 pp. suivies de 6 pp. de publicité, 40 illustrations en noir et blanc hors-texte, édition originale ; exemplaire non rogné, toile légèrement frottée, petites taches sur le s tranches, très bon état général Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande. Collectif
Seller: Abraxas-libris, Bécherel, France
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Tragedy of the Korosko. Smith Elder, London, 1898.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Tragedy of the Korosko" by Arthur Conan Doyle. Smith Elder, London. 1898 first UK edition. Book in good condition, covers with some soiling, minor chipping to spine edges, name to ffep. The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and December 1897, and was later turned into a 1909 play Fires of Fate.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$247.97 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 333 pages; Physical desc. : xii, 333, 6p. ; 20cm. Illustrated with 40 full-page plates. Subject: Hostages - Fiction. Egypt - Social life and customs - 19th century - Fiction. Publisher's catalogue (6p) bound in. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 333 pages; Physical desc. : xii, 333, 6p. ; 20cm. Illustrated with 40 full-page plates. Subject: Hostages - Fiction. Egypt - Social life and customs - 19th century - Fiction. Publisher's catalogue (6p) bound in. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$725.04 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 39 full-page illustrations in the text, some faint and occasional age-staining; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, uncut, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 6pp of publisher's advertisements bound in at end.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom