Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes FIRST EDITION
Smith, Edgar W. (Ed.); Untermeyer, Lois (Intro.); Brazelton, Julian (Illust.); Steele, Frederic Dorr (Illust.)
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1944
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.Underground Books, ABAA
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First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 7/8". xv, [v], 312pp. First printing. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket, with substantial tears and chipping to extremities, spine bleached, and dust soiling. Red cloth over boards, with Sherlock Holmes profile stamped in black to upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, wth gentle bumping to extremities. Map endpapers: "The World Strictly According to Doyle." Rear hinge starting to crack, with webbing visible. Binding remains quite sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A worn but still quite handsome first printing of this collection of Sherlockiana by Heywood Broun, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Rex Stout, Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Boucher, Dr. George F. McCleary, Vincent Starrett, Howard Haycraft, A. Conan Doyle, Howard Collins, Belden Wigglesworth, Fletcher Pratt, W. S. Hall, H. W. Bell, Charles Honce, Rufus S. Tucker, Dr. Charles S. Goodman, Logan Clendening, P. M. Stone, E. E. Kellett, James Kedde, Dr. Reginald Fitz, Robert Keth Leavitt, Carolyn Wells, Helene Yuhasova, Harvey Officer, Dr. Julian Wolff, "Evoe," and Felix Morley. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Smith, Edgar W. (Ed.); Untermeyer, Lois (Intro.); Brazelton, Julian (Illust.); Steele, Frederic Dorr (Illust.)
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster, New York
- Publication year
- 1944
- Condition
- Good +
- Dust jacket
- fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
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Underground Books, ABAA
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Underground Books, ABAA is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop, founded in 2011 as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia, which is now operated by out former store manager as The Underground Bookshop. Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women’s Initiative Mentorship Program. Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.…
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