Andre Castaigne Illustrator (4 results)

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.

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.

First Edition. [Mystery tales] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 356; [4], blank. With a frontispiece illustration by A.Castaigne. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, blocked in black and gilt. Contents clean, no ink names, minor bleed from cloth to margin of final few leaves, covers are especially bright and fresh. 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].

First 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).