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Arthur Conan Doyle. Through the Magic Door. Smith, Elder, GB, 1907.
Price: US$14.58 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Fairly clean tight text in fairly sound but very worn covers and with some internal library marks AND LACKING TWO PLATES 78 82) So just an adequate reading copy. SPINE REGLUED.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Doyle Arthur Conan. Through the Magic Door. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1907.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good plus copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper board and decorated in gilt on the upper board. Small tear in cloth at top of spine which is a little marked. No ownership inscription. Moderate edge and end-paper foxing. Pp.vi,274 + 6pp publisher's catalogue. Frontispiece and 15 illustrations. A book about literature by the author of the "Sherlock Holmes" stories.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Through the Magic Door. Smith, Elder & Co., 1907.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Red cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine and gold stamping on front cover. Title page dated 1907. 274 pages. First Edition. In good condition. Covers are rubbed and faded, with some discolored circular markings on front cover, as well as some similar discoloration to back cover. Cloth over spine is quite faded, but gold lettering remains clear. Some bumping and wear to cloth on corners and crown and foot of spine. Gold stamping of man in library on front cover is clear and bright. Gutter is cracked in several places, but binding appears strong. Pages are clean and unmarked, with 16 black and white illustrations.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
CONAN DOYLE Arthur.. THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR.. 1st edition. Smith Elder & Co - London., 1907.
Price: US$48.76 + shipping
Description: Doyles own story of his literary interestd & importance of literature in his life. 16 b&w illustrations (some by W.Russel Flint). Re-bound neatly in purple cloth, titled in gilt. A nice tight copy. Some foxing & a few page edges have tiny repairs (neatly).
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.. Through the Magic Door.. London: Smith, Elder & Co.,, 1907.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 274 pp w/index. Light scattered foxing, lean to spine, bookplate inside front cover. In all, very good plus in full red decorated cloth.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Through the Magic Door. Smith Elder, London, 1907.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers a little marked. Rear hinge beginning to crack, but still holding.
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Through the Magic Door. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1907.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Crimson cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Protective plastic cover. 274 pp. with 16 bw illustrations. Conan Doyle's recollections of life as a reader. Illustrations of, and the author's comments on, Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon, Pepys, Hawthorne and others. Includes a photo of his study. The book was inscribed to, and the book plate was from, Francis Horner Lyell, a Peer of the British Empire. Tight binding, clean interior. Covers a bit soiled and with light wear to edges, top/bottom of spine. Book plate inside front cover; inscription. Contains all illustrations.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
CONAN DOYLE Arthur.. THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR.. 1st edition. Smith Elder & Co - London., 1907.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Description: Doyles own story of his literary interests & importance of literature in his life. Red cloth decorated & lettered in gilt. 16 b&w illustrations (some by W.Russel Flint). Generally VG. Spine a touch sunned & scattered light foxing.
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Doyle Arthur Conan. Through the Magic Door.. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907., London, 1907.
Price: US$220.41 + shipping
Description: In-12° (mm 190x120). Pagine VI, 274, [6] + 1 antiporta e 15 tavole fuori testo. Fioriture diffuse e segni di matita rossa in varie pagine, ma buono stato di conservazione. Legatura editoriale in piena tela rossa, con illustrazione e titoli in oro al piatto anteriore e al dorso.
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli, Firenze, FI, Italy
Doyle, Arthur Conan. THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1907.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi [1] 2-274 [275-280: ads], sixteen inserted plates (reproducing portraits of various authors), original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. A series of literary essays based on some of Doyle's favorite books, with reminiscences of his buying them in his impecunious student days, when buying a book meant skipping a lunch. Green and Gibson B7a. Mild age-darkening to spine panel, spine ends rubbed, a bright, nearly fine copy. (19968)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Doyle, A. Conan. THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR [signed]. , 1907.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: [signed by Doyle] With Sixteen Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with cover vignette in gilt. First Edition of this group of literary essays, written as wanderings about the library in the Doyle home (which is shown in the frontispiece photograph). "Through the Magic Door" gives you glimpses of the days when Conan Doyle was a struggling beginner in literature. Discussing the books on his library shelves, he picks out certain of them, each one of which, bought in student days when he was not affluent, it had cost him a lunch to buy [Bookman, quoted in G&G]. The sixteen illustrations (all are present) are of other writers, such as Scott, Pepys, Hawthorne, Darwin and Stevenson. This is a near-fine copy with scarcely any wear or soil (red spine slightly faded as usual; atypically, there is no foxing on the leaves). Green & Gibson B7a. This copy is signed in full by the author at the top of the title page, "With kind regards | from Arthur Conan Doyle."
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.