Robert Barr Edited (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. AM2 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has label on the front and spine, inside flaps adhered to the fixed endpapers, light scuffing, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise good. Book has library stamping on the top and copyright page with label, cardholder adhered on the back loose endpaper, light stains, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Cover art by George Barr and Tim Kirk (illustrator). FL. Florida Atlantic University, March 1984 First Edition, First printing 42 pages Cover art by George Barr and Tim Kirk. A near fine copy with light dust soiling to the covers. See Photos mag 13 / E.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 334 pages including index. There are no marks or writing in the book. Black and white photographs. Corners are square. No reading creases on the spine. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages. Cover colors are bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 224 Pages.

Single issue magazine. Condition: Very Good. Cover art by Paul Stahr (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company Publisher. 1934. First Edition Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 144 pages, illustrated. Includes the fifth of six parts of "The Naked Blade" by George Challis AKA Max Brand, the first of four parts of "Jungle Girl" by H. Bedford-Jones, "Roll and Go" by Robert Carse, "The Knight in Crimson" by Donald Barr Chidsey, "Another Man's Poison" by Douglas Leach, "Supersition's the Bunk" by Charles Victor Knox, etc. A very good copy with shallow tearing to the spine ends, usual edgewear to the cover, text paper tanning/tanned. See Photos mag12.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition - Card Wraps. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 218 pages. Informative and well-illustrated catalogue for the exhibition of the same name.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a somewhat edge-torn, nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 502 pages. B&W illustrations. Two-column text. Subjects; Sherlock Holmes. Detective fiction. Fiction. Thriller Fiction. Crime fiction. Criminal investigation. Investigation Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Détectives Romans, nouvelles, etc. Enquêtes criminelles Romans, nouvelles, etc. Fiction. Private investigators. Private investigators Fiction. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a somewhat edge-torn, nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 502 pages. B&W illustrations. Two-column text. Subjects; Sherlock Holmes. Detective fiction. Fiction. Thriller Fiction. Crime fiction. Criminal investigation. Investigation Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Détectives Romans, nouvelles, etc. Enquêtes criminelles Romans, nouvelles, etc. Fiction. Private investigators. Private investigators Fiction. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Beige illustrated card covers showing a little wear at corners and darkened along the spine but remaining very neat and clean. Text block firm, pages smooth and clean, a very well preserved copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. xxi, 874, Maps pp. Dustjacket. LCC: 9319315.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Half white cloth with printed paper spine label, papercovered boards. Illustrated by R. Caton Woodville, Howard Pyle and Frank X. Leyendecker. Very good with hinges cracked, pages lightly age-toned, corners worn. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mystery writer and editor "Ellery Queen" was the pseudonym of a pair of cousins from Brooklyn, N.Y. -- Daniel Nathan, 1905-1982, known professionally as Frederic Dannay, and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, 1905-1971, known professionally as Manfred Bennington Lee.) This is the second printing, "Published March 1944 / Reprinted April 1944." Not price clipped; original $2.50 price showing to top of jacket front flap. Includes the 33 most notable celebrity pastiches, parodies, or imitations of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories which were available as of 1944, including Agatha Christie's "The Case of the Missing Lady," Vincent Starrett's "The Unique Hamlet," Mark Twain's "Double-Barrelled Detective Story," Anthony Boucher's "The Adventure of the Illustrious Impostor," Maurice Leblanc's "Holmlock Shears Arrives Too Late," O. Henry's "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes," Ellery Queen's own "The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore," and others, including (the first and arguably the best) Robert Barr's "The Great Pegram Mystery." Though the editors in their Introduction explain their disparate reasons for omitting three separate stories in which Holmes purportedly solves Charles Dickens' Mystery of Edwin Drood; A.A. Milne's "Dr. Watson Speaks out," and other efforts which "failed to make the cut." 365 pp. including bibliography and index. Reduced from $280.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green binding with gilt wording and illustration. Some scuffing and bumping to the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original orange cloth, lettered in black (the authors' names are laid out like the spokes on a wheel). Lightly scuffed, cloth a trifle darkened on spine, light foxing on endpapers, very good. Collection of stories culled from various sources. The twenty stories and authors are: Polly by Margaret Watson, My Lost Home by John Hollingshead, Two Strokes of the Pen by Henry Herman, A Guild Clerk's Tale by W. Moy Thomas, Bill by Barry Pain, Slightly Deaf by Bracebridge Hemyng, A Breach of Promise of Marriage by Geo. Manville Fenn, The Marriage of Anna Ivanovna by H. Sutherland Edwards, An Odd Fix by F. W. Robinson, A Champion of England by Brandon Thomas, The Romance of a Melody by Leopold Wagner, The Episode of the Pilot by F. C. Burnand, Angela: An Inverted Love Story by W. S. Gilbert, A Fallen Star by A. W. Pinero, The Wearing of the Green by Justin McCarthy, The Cigarette by H. Savile Clarke, The Man in Possession by B. L. Farjeon, The Purser's Story by Robert Barr, A Silent Sacrifice by W. W. Fenn & The Chumplebunneys on the Ocean Wave by W. Beatty-Kingdom. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Sharp Stated First Edition, bound in black cloth with titles in black against red backgrounds on the front board and spine. Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Jacket shows wear as photographed.

Octavo, 36 issues in six volumes, profusely illustrated, original publisher's pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, rear panel blind stamped. The first 36 issues (six volumes) of this monthly magazine, running from February 1892 through January 1895. THE IDLER was one of the popular magazines that sprang up in the early 1890s, along with several others including THE STRAND MAGAZINE and PEARSON'S MAGAZINE, capitalizing on a confluence of favorable trends: the advent of cheap, high-quality printing in the late 1880s courtesy of the Linotype machine; widespread literacy in England courtesy of the National Education Bill of 1870; the emergence in the late 1880s of vibrant new authors (Kipling, Haggard, Doyle, etc.) and popular fiction genres (the detective story, the lost race romance, etc.); plentiful advertising revenues due to the lack of serious competition from any other medium; and a general economic background of prosperity during the glow of the late Victorian period. THE IDLER was founded by Robert Barr, a Scot who grew up in Canada and established himself as a journalist in the U.S. (Detroit) before returning to Great Britain. His business partner was William Dunkerley (a.k.a. John Oxenham). They wanted a "name" writer to act as the principal editor; after considering Twain, Barrie and Kipling, they settled on Jerome K. Jerome, then riding a crest with the success of his humorous THREE MEN IN A BOAT. The idea may have been to have Jerome act as a figurehead, but he dove enthusiastically into his editorial duties and his competitive/collaborative relationship with Barr led to a fruitful ferment in the magazine's pages. As a writer (like W. W. Jacobs and Barry Pain, who were also frequent contributors to the magazine), Jerome was known principally for humor but he also wrote significant amounts of very good horror and supernatural material. Barr himself was another versatile author of popular fiction (working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres). Both men contributed material as well as editorial guidance to THE IDLER, and they were joined by some of the leading fiction writers of the period: Robert Louis Stevenson, A. Conan Doyle, Israel Zangwill, Marie Corelli, Grant Allen, Anthony Hope, Eden Phillpotts and W. L. Alden. The fiction, which tended towards the generic and sensational, was balanced by articles and essays, some serious, some playful. Lively artwork and layouts acted as a leavening for the whole. The magazine was profitable from the start and had a good run, ending in 1911. Jerome and Barr were among the last in the Victorian tradition of author-editors, a tradition that included Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Braddon and (in the U.S.) William Dean Howells and Bret Harte. Ashley, The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880-1950, pp. 93-100. Lawrence Solomon book label affixed at the upper left corner of the front paste-down in each volume. A nearly fine to fine run with solid and bright bindings. Uncommon in the publisher's cloth. A lovely set. (#164525).