Tracy jack with berkey jim (6 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. [nice clean copy, no discernible wear, would be Fine but for the previous owner's initials and date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the inside back cover; the book is encased in a (removable) plastic protective cover]. Trade PB (B&W drawings, facsimiles) An examination of the Great Detective's drug use, which is alluded to numerous times throughout the original Conan Doyle stories. Includes "a reiteration of the chronology of [Holmes's] professional life as related the drug" (with indications of which stories contain drug-related references), plus a bibliography of books on cocaine and a listing of "the principal contributions to the literature of Sherlock Holmes and cocaine.". Illustrated by Paul M. McCall (illustratore).…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A near fine copy with the lightest touches of soiling to white covers. Illustrated by Paul M. McCall with Sidney Paget's original representations of Sherlock Holmes and other turn-of-the-century illustrations. Study of the use of cocaine in the Holmes stories as well as of late 19th-century attitudes to the drug. McCall, Paul M. (illustratore). Trade Paperback.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. First trade paperback printing bound in pictorial wrappers. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Near fine condition. Faint vertical crease along the width of the lower rear wrapper.

First edition. 8vo. 91 pp. Illustrated by Paul M. McCall. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwapper, very good condition. (91264).

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by Jack Tracy to Helen Heinrich, a well-known Sherlock Holmes collector and historian. Also, Signed by Paul M. McCall, the illustrator.

First edition, first printing: Hardbound issue. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Thin octavo. 91 pages. Illustrated by Paul M. McCall with Sidney Paget's original representations of Sherlock Holmes and other turn-of-the-century illustrations. A detailed study of the use of cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal Detective stories. It provides an insight into the attitudes prevalent in the late nineteenth century toward the use of and addiction to cocaine.…