Ghost Stories Presentiments (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Publishers blue cloth with spine titles in gilt, cover titles and decoration in red, plain brown endpapers. Cloth bit dulled but clean and unmarked, minor foxing, front endpaper separated in gutter but hinges remain quite firm. GOOD - VERY GOOD, a very sound copy. 2nd blank leaf with former owner name and 1893 date. Hefty 60-ppg publishers catalog bound in at rear dated October 1889. Includes supernatural yarns by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Ghost Stories and Presentiments by Arthur Conan Doyle (First Edition) A copy with moderate wear to spine edges; bumping to corners. Tanning and wrinkling to spine cloth. Front hinge loosening; rear hinge starting. Gilt on title has worn off. 1888 First Edition, Third Issue Binding. The first appearance by Arthur Conan Doyle in book form. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; maroon lettering and ruling with pictorial design in maroon and blue to front panel; black coated endpapers. 308 pp. Publisher's adverts laid in at rear. Includes twelve supernatural stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition, second issue. First edition, second issue. 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth. A repackaging of volume 3 of the scarce triple-decker Dreamland and Ghostland (1888) which includes five of the seven Conan Doyle short stories found in that collection (the first appearances by Conan Doyle in book form, preceding A Study in Scarlet). The sales were of the initial collection were poor and the publisher repackaged the sheets in separate volumes with new titles and bindings. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp. 308, 12 of adverts. 8vo. Blue pictorial cloth, spine slightly dulled. 1st edition, 2nd issue. The stories by Conan Doyle are The Great Keinplatz Experiment; The Mystery of Sasassa Valley; The Captain of the Pole-Star; and John Barrington Cowles, they are marked with the delta symbol. The other stories are The Ghosts of Cottenall Court; A Debt of Honour; Ghosts; A Weird Story of Bruges; Selecting a Ghost; How Brown Awoke at the Right Moment; Why New Houses are Haunted; and An Extra Passenger. Originally published by Redway in 1887 in 3 vols entitled Dreamland and Ghostland. (1st edition, 1st issue). Because of poor sales the stories were reissued the following year as individual volumes with cancelled title pages, Ghost Stories and Presentiments being the third volume of the first issue. The publication of these stories in book form by Conan Doyle in 1887 predates the publication in book form of A Study in Scarlet, and so is the author's first appearance in book form. Sadleir 741. COPAC.Muir. Points, 2nd series.