Published by Harper & Brothers, New York/London, 1915
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Andre Castaigne, Illustrator (illustrator). First Edition. New York/London: Harper & Brothers, 1915. First Edition. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Andre Castaigne, Illustrator. Clean green cloth boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear, one corner lightly bumped. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names or bookplates. Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard, additional illustrations by Andre Castaigne. 360 pgs. Published September, 1915 (code H-P on copyright page). 8vo. Fiction.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1915
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Andre Castaigne, Illustrator (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. First Edition. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Andre Castaigne, Illustrator. Green cloth boards with gold letteirng on cover and spine. Boards are very clean, spine slightly dulled, with two small faint brown spots. No bumped corners, light wear to corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Frontis illustration with tissue guard. Pages and edges are clean. 360 pgs. 8vo. First Edition.
Published by Copp Clark Co. Limited, Toronto, 1908
First Edition
Unknown Binding. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne illustrator (illustrator). First Canadian Edition; Second Printing. Light edge wear to green cloth covered boards, bottom fore corner worn through, light soil. Gift notation on FFEP, small hole top dedication page. A little foxing early pages. Front hinge intact, back hinge started but solid. Page edges show a little soil. ; Black stamped design and gilt stamped titles front and spine. A tight solid book.
Published by Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1911
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Andre Castaigne, Illustrator (illustrator). Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1911. Very Good+/no dust jacket . Andre Castaigne, Illustrator. Clean and solid hardcover book with beautiful illustrations by Andre Castaigne. Olive green cloth-covered boards with unchipped stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Gorgeous full-color frontispiece with clean tissue guard; five additional full page, full color illustrations. Copyright date 1911 with no additional printings listed. 390 pages.
Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. The Century Co., New York, 1900. 249 pages. Illustrated. 10.75 x 7.25", gold and color stamped blue cloth, no dj. No dj, cover rubbed, bit soiled, short tear along spine, inner hinges pulling, text shaken, toned, good/none.
Published by London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1908, 1908
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 657.16
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Add to basketFirst Edition. [Mystery tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 372 [4]. With a halftone frontispiece by Andre Castaigne. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to upper board and spine, gilt illustration to upper. Advertisements to rear. Contents clean with just a few small spots to the prelims., cloth lightly handled, gilt a touch rubbed. Doyle's paradoxical appreciation for both the logical criminal mind and the paranormal come together in this series of short tales where one has no idea what's next in store. Will it be a far-fetched but perfectly possible feat of villainous intelligence, or a genuine ghost? These are strange and horrible tales, mostly with an eerie nature, although two are ingenious enough to involve the great detective; there is a cameo appearance from Sherlock Holmes, p.187, with deductions in 'The Lost Special'. Also features 'The Man with the Watches', an apocryphal Holmes story. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [356]. Green and Gibson. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction [p115-119]. Provenance; Dr.James Foster Hasbrouck (1870-1945), dentist to President Theodore Roosevelt (neat bookplate to pastedown).