james keddie (7 risultati)

Condizione: Good. 1936. No Edition Stated. 215 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with green lettering. B&W frontispiece. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine.

Original Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No. First Edition. A delightful look at the publishing industry of bygone days. Bound in brown cloth with paper lable on the spine. A nice clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. In Fine slipcase. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Co., 1936. 1st Edition. xviii, 215 p. Hardbound with DJ. The DJ has slight wear along the fore-edges and their corners. Interior pages are clean and the binding is tight. A nice fresh copy. Fine/Near Fine.

Condizione: new.

Etats-Unis, Edited by Vincent Starrett 1956. In-8 broché, de 248 pages au format 21,5 x 14 cm. Couverture avec titre imprimé et illustration en noir. Plats et intérieur frais. Dos carré muet. Retirage d'un des ouvrages les plus célèbres de l'érudition Holmesienne, dont l'édition originale de 1940 est ardemment recherché. Ce recueil contient des textes de Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Morley, R.K. Leavitt, Elmer Davis, Jane Nightwork, Earle F. Walbridge, H.W. Bell, James Keddie, Harvey Officer, P.M Stone, Vincent Starrett, Richard D. Altick, Frederic Dorr Steele, Henry James Forman, Edgar W. Smith et F.V Morley. Nombreuses illustrations et documents en noir, hors texte. Indispensable ouvrage et un must pour tous les Sherlockiens. Exemplaire ayant appartenu à Robert B. Frier en tirage limité à 350 exemplaires numérotés ( n° 232 ) avec ex-libris d'appartenance. Signé par Robert B. Frier au verso de la couverture. Edition originale broché en état proche du neuf et en tirage limité. Rare et totalement épuisé.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. A lot of nineteen (19) books by and/or about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Baker Street, Baker Street regulars and Irregulars, British crime fiction, and homicide detection, to wit: 1) Walter Klinefelter, Ex Libris A. Conan Doyle. Apparent First Edition, though not so stated, published by Black Cat Press, Chicago, IL, 1938, with decorations by Dale Nichols. 58 pp. Very Good condition, bound in reddish brown linen cloth over boards, gilt device of a smoking Sherlock Holmes to front cover, rough-cut fore-edges, toning to interior edges of endpapers only, still quite nice-looking, and stands handsomely on the shelf. Colophon notes design by Norman W. Forgue; 250 copies printed from Linotype Caslon on Worthy Charta paper by the Black Cat Press of Chicago. [10], 11-58 pp.2) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles: another adventure of Sherlock Holmes. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. Bound in publisher's brick-red cloth over boards, a bit mottled to front panel bottom, moderately so to rear panel, overall Good condition, a seeming second issue of the same McClure, Phillips & Co. edition, itself built upon the true First Edition, published by George Newnes, London, 1n 1901. Previous owner's signature (Edmund Blarnny?), dealer-stamp to first free endpaper, slight forward cock to spine, bumping to, slight scuffing of spine head and foot. Frontis illustration and then eight pages of ads. The tell-tale "1902, R" to copyright page. 3) A. Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, 1902, Souvenir Edition, thus no copyright page, printed by Love & Malcolmson. Bound in blue cloth over boards, fine gilt lettering to spine and front cover, with gilt designs at both, rubbed spine, bumped spine head and foot, gilt-stained top edges, bowed vertically, penned gift inscription at half-title (G. v.d. Meyer, Jun. from F.G.H., Dec. 1903), clean, tightly bound, overall Good condition, and illustrated by Sidney Paget including at frontis. Fine initials throughout. The sphinx design (at least) at front cover was designed by Alfred Garth Jones to link to the play mounted at the Lyceum Theater called Sherlock Holmes. Blind-stamped publisher logo at rear panel. Comprised of eleven short stories. Plentiful plates, including at frontis. Frontis matter, 2-341 pp. 4) A. Conan Doyle, The Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [the covers say The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]. London: George Newnes, 1902. Souvenir Edition, thus no copyright page, printed by Love & Malcolmson. Bound in blue cloth over boards, fine gilt lettering to spine and front cover, with gilt designs at both, rubbed spine, bumped spine head and foot, gilt-stained top edges, bowed vertically, slightly, penned gift inscription at half-title (G. v.d. Meyer, Jun. from F.G.H., Dec. 1903), clean, tightly bound, overall Good condition. Illustrated by Sidney Paget including at frontis, fine initials throughout. Decorated endpapers front and rear, but half-toning to first and final free endpapers. The sphinx design (at least) at front cover was designed by Alfred Garth Jones to link to the play mounted at the Lyceum Theater called Sherlock Holmes. Blind-stamped publisher logo at rear panel. Penciled mark at half-title noting purchase of title in 1952 for $2. Plentiful fine black-and-white plates, printed on high-gloss paper. 296 pp. Scarce in the trade. 5) John Dickson Carr, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Burgundy cloth over boards, rubbed gilt lettering to spine, lightly soiled exterior, evenly toned pages. Stated First Edition exemplar, Good condition overall. 304 pp. plus index. 6) H.W. Bell, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: the chronology of their adventures. London: Constable & Co, 1932. Uber-scarce exemplar of the true First Edition of this important chronology of the cases of and relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Limited to 500 copies. Bound in publisher's original dark blue, faintly green cloth (owing to sunning), spine lettered in gilt, rubbed. xix, [1], 131 pp., errata slip present/bound in at page 122. Overall Good because moderately foxed throughout, penned inscription of previous owner at first free endpaper (of Lawrence P. Dodge, 1932). Dealer stamp inside rear flap at bottom near spine. A fine literary analysis, case by case, of the homicide and other crime detection of Doyle's main characters. 7) Anthony Boucher, The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (an Inner Sanctum Mystery). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. Good condition exemplar in First Edition state, red cloth over boards, black lettering to spine, rubbed, black-stamped design of a pipe-smoking Holmes to front cover, penciled name of previous owner (Lawrence P. Dodge) at first free endpaper. Heavily foxed front endpaper, else clean and unmarked. 1-336 pp. 8) T.S. Blakeney, Sherlock Holmes: fact or fiction? London: John Murray, 1932. Good condition exemplar in First Edition state, bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering at spine, rubbed, sunning of spine to light brown. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed inside rear board at bottom. ix, 1-133 [1] pp. Scarce in the trade. ($20.00).9) Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First American Edition, previous owner's inked signature at first free endpaper (Laurence P. Dodge), dealer stamp there, lightly soiled and sunned spine, rubbing to edges, slight forward cock to spine, else tightly bound, clean, unmarked, evenly toned interior. An important book for Holmes completists insofar as Starrett's biography is of a literary character and device. Short octavo format. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-xiv], 1-214 pp., plus ten plates, one present but detached. Overall, Good condition. Missing the dust jacket 10) The Baker Street Journal, Volume 4, Number 1, published in New York by Ben Abramson, 1949, edited by Edgar W. Smith and Christopher Morley and other Baker.