William Hole Illustrator (6 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Hole, William (illustrator); Metcalf, W. L. (illustrator) (illustrator). 427 Pages. Unabridged edition of original publication by Cassell in London in 1892. In 1889 Stevenson wrote to his editior The story is founded on fact, the mystery I really believe to be insoluble; the purchase of a wreckk has never been handled before, no more has San Francisco. These seem all elements of success. Stevenson had long been attracted to the police novel or mystery story and although this was a collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, the novel is the style of Stevenson. Written in 1892 while Stevenson was resting from tuberculosis and where he presided as island patriarch. There is the strange, authentic tang of Polynesia, the ports, reefs, islanders and terrifyingly wide oceans pervading and coloring this story. The wreck in question foundered on the uninhabited isle of Midway, and before the story is through and the truth revealed, the artis-turned-smuggler Dodd has piratical adventures in pre-earthquake San Francisco, and over the world in Edinburgh, Paris, Sydney, Tahiti, Tehran and Constantinople. Dodd is the detective, obsessed with the secret of the Flying Scud and its ghostly crew. This later novel, coming after The Master of Ballantrae is a Stevenosn rarity.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding is sound. Some cracking to spine and light wear on cover. Stock photo differs from cover. Previous owner's name written in pancil on the ffep on inside front cover. . . . . . . Illustrated with colored plates and full page halftone reproductions from the paintings of William Hole and other artists. Also includes maps and photographs of the Holy Land. Also includes a study guide with questions and answers based on the text in the back of the book (pp 499-500). Gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. William Hole, Illustrator (illustrator). Lovely signed decorated American trade binding (W. E. B.S. - W. E. B. Starkweather), clean brown cloth with bright unworn decoration (a countryside window scene). Small spots of wear at top spine corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated by William Hole, including frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. 192 pages.

Small 4to. Unpaginated. 80 colour plates. Occasional slight foxing with some heavier foxing to f.e.ps. Upper hinge cracked. Original gilt-decorated white cloth, spine lightly browned with 2cm. tear to head, slightly rubbed to edges, t.e.g. US$18.

First Edition. Large paper, limited edition of 415 copies of which this is number 339. 65 x 185 mm approx. xii + 324 pp. Illustrated with sepia drawings and portraits by William Hole. First thus - the book was originally published in 1894. In black buckram with gilt titles. Half title page uncut. Covers a little marked otherwise VG.

First illustrated edition. Signed by both Barrie and the illustrator at the limitation statement. No. 11 of 50 special copies from a total edition of 560. Illustrated with 18 etching by William Hole. xiv, 217 pp. Large 8vo. Very good with light wear and hinges cracked in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt.