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 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).

First Edition. A Collection of Short Stories to be Read Round the Fire on a Winter's Night "Concerned with the Grotesque and with the Terrible" DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Round the Fire Stories. With a frontispiece by A. Castaigne. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 191 x 124 mm.). [viii], [1]-372, [373-376, publisher's catalog] pp. With a tipped-in frontispiece by A. Castaigne. Publisher's dark red cloth, front cover blocked and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, white endpapers, lower edges uncut. Minimal darkening to spine, a few slight marginal smudges, otherwise near fine. 6,000 copies were published on 24th September 1908 priced 6/-. "In a previous volume, "The Green Flag," I have assembled a number of my stories which deal with warfare or with sport. In the present collection those have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible - such tales as might well be read "round the fire" upon a winter's night. This would be my ideal atmosphere for such stories, if an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the light and hanging of his picture. However, if they have the good fortune to give pleasure to any one, at any time or place, their author will be very satisfied." (Preface). Green & Gibson A33a.