As Ashdown Clifford (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Oswald Train: Publisher, Philadelphia, PA 1975 First edition 238 page Hardcover in dust Jacket. R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn writing as Clifford Ashdown, Edited and with an introduction by Norman Donaldson. vintage Adventure fiction. Near fine with dust soiling top page edges in jacket with light wear and rubbing. clphE. Dust Jacket art by William Dixon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Probably written about 1905 but went unpublished until 1975. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book.

Octavo, illustrations by P. B. Hickling, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 500 copies printed. A sequence of six criminous stories that first appeared in CASSELL'S MAGAZINE in 1904 and 1905. A fine copy. Trade paperback format. (#177404).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. These stories first appeared in Cassell's Magazine in 1904 and 1905 and reflect the strong medical backgounds of the authors. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Dixon, William (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. These stories first appeared in Cassell's Magazine in 1904 and 1905 and reflect the strong medical backgounds of the authors. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Dixon, William (illustrator). Book.

First edition, first impression, of the author's first detective book, "published under the pseudonym of Clifford Ashdown and written by Freeman together with a medical colleague [John James Pitcairn] who was also a prison officer, is said to be the rarest book of crime short stories" (Julian Symons, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Nove: A History, 1972, p. 86). Four of Richard Austin Freeman's books are Haycraft-Queen cornerstones. Hubin p. 15. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in gilt, illustration to front board in white. W. H. Smith & Son blind-stamp to front free endpaper. Fading to spine and around board edges, some marks to front board, rubbing to ends and corners, faint spotting to endpapers; a very good copy.…