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Condizione: Fine. 0.

Condizione: Fine. 0.

First Edition. Softcover. 44pp. Includes R.Austin Freeman 'The Author Under the Microscope' . Published for admirers of Dr.John Thorndyke and R.Austin Freeman. Stapled wraps. Near Fine.

First Edition. Softcover. 52pp. Includes 'The Silent Sickle' A Thorndyke pastiche by Oliver Mayo. Published for admirers of Dr.John Thorndyke and R.Austin Freeman. Stapled wraps. Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. This unique book is a special binding of the first ten issues of the bi-annual paperback published for admirers of Dr John Thorndyke and his creator R. Austin Freeman published in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. There is an attractive book plate to the front paste down. The bespoke binding is in burgundy buckram with gilt titling to the spine and the upper board. Also included in this sale is a copy of volume 14. published in Fall 1982. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a long series of 21 novels and 40 short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943). Thorndyke was described by his author as a 'medical jurispractitioner': originally a medical doctor, he turned to the bar and became one of the first ? in modern parlance ? forensic scientists. His solutions were based on his method of collecting all possible data (including dust and pond weed) and making inferences from them before looking at any of the protagonists and motives in the crimes. Freeman ensured that his methods were practical by conducting all experiments mentioned in the stories himself. Dr. Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA (11 April 1862 - 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). This invention has been described as Freeman's most noticeable contribution to detective fiction. Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but sometimes arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology. ZZZ 2.

PAPERBACK. 1st edition. lot of 31 issues, complete set consists of 33 issues, this lot is missing Number 16 and Number 20, two-fold broad sheets. clean throughout, mild corner wear, slight tanning to the edges, Very Good.

First edition. First editions. 4to. Twenty-six staple-bound offset bulletins., ranging from 1981, until 1990, just before the cessation of publication in 1990. Issues 1 through 27: NOTE: Two copies of issue number 1 (November 1981), one combined issue for Nos. 13 & 14, MISSING No. 16. First 8 issues show numbered with red marker in upper right corner. Numerous photographs as part of an attempt to link up Bony's whereabouts in Upfield's thirty-five or so novels which take place in the Australian outback roughly between the 1930's and 1950's. From 1981 to 1990 Philip T. Asdell, irregularly published a "fanzine" about the Australian writer Arthur Upfield's fabulous half-aborigine detective Napoleon Bonaparte, so named because when his parents were killed, he was found as an infant trying to read a thick volume of a biography of the life of that Emperor, and named after the subject of the book. Also known as "Bony." Bony becomes a detective on the Queensland Police Force. Upfield himself was the disappointing son, sent off to Australia in his early twenties. After some military experience, he spent the better part of twenty years, working various jobs in the Australian outback, becoming intimately familiar with the life, customs and beliefs of the Aboriginals. This is an uncommon publication that provides a wealth of information on Arthur W. Upfield, his detective "Bony," the story line for each of the books, and knowledge of all of the Upfield stories. Fine copies.