Grimshaw Arthur (8 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Robert Mathias (Cover Design); John Atkinson Grimshaw (Cover Illustration) (illustrator). 397 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, this including the Blanched Soldier, and two others are written in the third person. In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780304339631.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good used condition, loose pages, creases to covers, seller's stamp on front cover, light wear & marks.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dayton / New York: McCall Corporation 1951. Softcover. First edition. Pulp magazine. Oversize [about 8.25" x 11"] pictorial wrappers, 144 pages [including the first of two parts of "Planets in Combat" later published as BETWEEN PLANETS], illustrated. Very good copy with creasing, shallow chipping to the spine head, tear across the central portion of the spine, a few short edge tears, text paper tanned as usual. mag9E.

Condition: Good. First edition. Paperback. Covers with some tearing and chipping, otherwise near very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression in very early Barbosa jacket, a lovely design. The book is VG with some spotting to page edges, in VG- jacket with some light rubbing, but quite nice for 85 years old.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, very good condition. Half bound in red calf with red buckram boards. Boards have some surface stains and a section of the buckram on the rear is coming loose from the corner binding. Spine has some rubbing along the edges and and wear at the ends. Pages are slightly tanned and there are some minor stains to the end papers. Signed by the renown London Harpsichord maker Thomas Goff with a dedication to the photographer Herbert Lampert. Undated but c1920. Text is German and English. DP. Used.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1853 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 50 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 50 Language: English.