Search results for: 'DOYLE, Arthur Conan.'
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works.London : 1903
Signed limited edition, number 217 of 1,000 sets signed by the author. The set collects Doyle's stories written between 1891 and 1903.
The Author's Edition was a joint publication, consisting of 12 volumes (omitting The Hound of the Baskervilles) published in the UK by Smith, Elder & Co. and 13 volumes published in the USA by D. Appleton & Co.... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 141692
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works.New York : 1930
First complete collected edition, number 358 of 760 numbered sets signed by the author in volume I.
The Crowborough editionnamed after the Sussex town where Doyle's home, Windlesham, was locatedhas double the number of volumes of the Author's Edition of 1903. Doyle had already signed sheets for it but his illness and death on 7 July 1930 prevented... Learn More£13,500.00Stock Code: 141246
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles.London : 1902
First edition, first impression. The Hound was Sherlock Holmes's "comeback" novel after his shocking demise on the Reichenbach Falls stunned his loyal Victorian readership. When first serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 it was a feverish success, with queues at the publisher's office and throughout the country. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132284
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Guards Came Through.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, of this collection of poetry, comprising largely of poems relating to war. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 140750
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet.London : 1888 [1889]
First edition in book form of Conan Doyle's first book, marking the first separate publication of any Sherlock Holmes story, preceded only by the story's appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887. This copy is the second impression of the first edition, with the first and final signatures reset (distinguished by the mis-spelling "youuger" on p. v),... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 137971
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.London : 1892 & 1894
First editions of the first two great collections of Holmes stories. The first collection, Adventures, is the first issue with the misprint "Miss Violent Hunter" on page 317 and the blank street sign in the vignette to the front cover; there is no corresponding issue point for Memoirs. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 143055
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.London : 1927
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 133516
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works.New York : [1903]
The Author's edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies of which this is number 650. A rare US issue which, unlike the UK edition, includes The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The author wanted a set that contained only the works for which he wanted to be credited, as he states in the preface: "Outside of this edition there is no work of mine up to... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 141237
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works.New York : 1930
First complete collected edition, number 268 of 760 numbered sets signed by the author in volume I, very handsomely bound.
The Crowborough Edition - named after the Sussex town where Doyle's home, Windlesham, was located - has double the number of volumes of the Author's Edition of 1903. Doyle had already signed sheets for it but his illness... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 146414
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works.New York : [1903]
The Author's edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies of which this is number 241 with an autograph letter signed by Doyle and dated 4.2.04 tipped to the binder's front blank in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A rare US issue which, unlike the UK edition, includes The Hound of the Baskervilles. A handsome set.
The author wanted a set that... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 147024
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Poems.London : 1922
First collected edition, first impression, containing 12 poems and a one-act play previously unpublished in book form. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 96819
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Maracot DeepLondon : 1929
First edition, first impression. The Goldstone copy with his bookplate to the front pastedown. "Four stories: "The Maracot Deep" (short science fiction novel) of the discovery of the ruins of Atlantis, together with some survivors, on the ocean bed); "The Disintegration Machine" and "When the World Screamed" (two Professor Challenger science fiction... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 47172
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Sign of Four.London : 1890
First edition of the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. As with the majority of copies, this has the number "138" on the contents page misprinted as "13". Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 141331
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DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. The Lost World.London : [1912]
First edition in book form, first impression, of Conan Doyle's classic prehistoric adventure novel, following its serialization in the Strand Magazine earlier that year. "His sense of the glory and nonsense of scientific advance found happy resolution in The Lost World (1912), where academic vendetta at its most ludicrous continually punctuates a thrilling... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138994
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GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Under the Exclusive Management of James B. Pond, "The Pond Bureau".New York : c.1924]
Promotional brochure advertising Charlotte Perkins Gilman's next projected US lecture tour, offering single lectures or courses on her many areas of expertise (listed as ethics, economics, education, the woman question, the child, and general subjects), outlining a series of suggested course structures, and concluding with press commentary on her various... Learn More£900.00Stock Code: 139355
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SLOCUM, Joshua. Sailing Alone Around the World.New York : 1900
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his lecture manager on the front free endpaper, "Major J. B. Pond, yours truly Joshua Slocum, The Spray, New York, April 27th 1900", with Pond's bookplate to the front pastedown. Pond (1838-1903) was a civil war veteran and highly successful manager who also promoted Mark Twain,... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 133645
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord; JONES, Alred Garth (illus.) In Memoriam.London : 1901
First edition illustrated by Jones, signed limited issue, number 93 of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the illustrator, and printed on "O.W." paper. Alfred Garth Jones was a popular illustrator known in France and the US as much as in the UK whose work was used in several notable publications, including works by H. G. Wells, John Milton and Arthur... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 117156
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WORLD WAR I. Ministry of Munitions of War. H.M. Factory, Gretna.Dumfries : 1918
First and only edition. The massive factory site, which included the two purpose-built townships of Gretna and Eastriggs, was established as a response to the Shell Crisis of 1915. The plant's product was cordite - a smokeless propellant explosive comprised of a mixture of nitro-glycerine and nitro-cellulose, or gun cotton, and described by Sir Arthur... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 79783
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[LANG, Herbert Gordon.] The "Walking-Stick" Method of Self-Defence.London : [1926]
First edition of this idiosyncratic stick-fighting handbook combining the "canne" method of Swiss master Pierre Vigny (referred to by Lang as "Vigui") with the "bois" method widespread in the West Indies. The author, a police superintendent in Kathiawar, was born in Grenada in 1887, and possibly came into contact with canne in London, where Vigny taught... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 117850
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PHOTOPLAYS. Photoplay Collection.London, New York, etc : c.1910-50
An excellent photoplay collection from the early decades of cinema, with the scarce and sensational illustrated dust jackets. 64 volumes are from the Readers Library series, published in London, 38 are from New York's Grosset & Dunlap (these notably illustrated with photographic film stills), and the remainder are from various other publishers. The... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 120921
