Smith Edgar W Edited (10 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: G- / NONE. GOOD-MINUS HARDBACK. EX-LIBRARY WITH TYPICAL MARKINGS. HEAVILY WORN BUT SOLID SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. WITH "VR" ON COVER IN 4 PLACES AS IF MADE UP OF BULLET HOLES. Illus. By Steele, Paget, Etc (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition (quarterly publication). Covers lightly soiled, rubbed, and stain. Paper on spine worn Two interior pictures have stained top corner. Text copy age toned. Otherwise a clean and unmarked journal in good condition. 132 pages.

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Slight wear to spine as usual.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Red boards with black and gold lettering on spine. Title and copyright pages dated 1944. 312 pages. Shelf wear on boards. Corners bumped. Name written in blue ink on front free endpaper dated April 1944. Very Good condition. Binding clean and tight. Deckled edge pages. Frontispiece illustration by Frederick Dorr Steele. Please contact us with questions or if you'd like to see photographs.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 1, Number 1. Octavo. 108pp. Printed wrappers. Wrappers with some light dustsoiling, faint marginal dampstain in the upper corner (not affecting the text), corners gently creased, very good.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No DJ Issued. Unread. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Gilt page edges. 764pp.

Octavo, four issues, printed wrappers. The first four issues of the first series. A very good set. (#81191).

[SHERLOCKIANA]. First edition. One of 200 copies bound in blue printed wrappers of which this is copy number 270. Fine in printed wrappers. A communication appearing in the London Times of July 3, 1890, from an amateur reasoner of some celebrity; and a communication appearing in the Daily Gazette in March or April, 1892, over the signature of a well-known criminal investigator. Together with the stories in which these letters are quoted: The Lost Special and The Man With The Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are special communications by Stanley Hopkins, Chief Inspector C.I.D. [Retired], and Vincent Starrett.…

1980, 1981. (Leather binding) Near fine. 1777pp. The complete 3 volumes in black leather, decoratively stamped in gilt and raised bands on the spines. Orange moire endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon page markers, illustrations. Easton Press bookplate with a previous owner's name affixed to the first blank page of each volume. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. Illustrations by Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele & Frank Wiles. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. (Mystery).…

Condition: Very Good. (Morristown, New Jersey: The Baker Street Irregulars, Inc. 1958). A softback (not issued with a dustwrapper). LIMITED OF 350 COPIES THIS BEING # 100. Publisher's pink wrappers lettered in black with an image of Sherlock Holmes to the front cover. A slither of surface loss to the tip of the spine. Wrappers faded to the front cover and spine. Titles added to the otherwise blank spine on a black strip produced using a home-embossing label maker. Overall a VG+ copy. A compilation of 19 Sherlockian essays and articles originally published between 1902 and 1944. Anthony Boucher review of this book, taken from the New York Times Book Review, 6 July 1958. ".the most valuable volume yet in the B. S. I.'s splendid series of limited editions. Here assembled for the first time are virtually all of the important analytical writings about Holmes before the rise of the Holmesian cult.it should please not merely Irregulars, but every admirer of adroit scholarly satire." Referenced in Ron De Waal's "The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:" Decidedly uncommon. Further photographs available upon request.…