[SHERLOCKIANA]. CHRIST, JAY FINLEY
Flashes by Fanlight
Chicago: Fanlight Press, 1946. First Edition. 250 copies were printed. Fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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COOPER, JAMES FENIMOREThe Two Admirals
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. First American Edition; two volumes; publisher’s muslin boards with paper spine labels. Bookplates; minor foxing; an excellent set in a custom cloth slipcase with chemises. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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DOYLE, ARTHUR CONANThe Crowborough Edition
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Twenty-four volumes. Original cloth and boards with paper spine labels. One of 750 numbered sets signed by Doyle. Very good. Gibson and Green A61. Compiled and published at the end of his life, Doyle was unable to provide revisions and prefaces as he.....
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FISCHER-TRACHAU, OTTOFur Grosvaters Leiblinge
Dresden: Verlag von O. & R. Becker, n.d. [1907]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher’s pictorial color boards; in German; many illustrations printed in color; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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DEKROYFT, MRS. S.HA Place In Thy Memory
New York: Trow, Printer, 1868. Later edition (one of many) of an apparently self-published book. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “ ‘A Place in thy memory, dearest, and a memory in thy prayers!’ ” S. Helen DeKroyft. March 30th 1868.” Contemporary owner (or recipient’s) signature below. Original cloth; spine.....
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BANKS, MARY ROSSBright Days in the Old Plantation Time
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1882. First Edition. Black dialect fiction. Wright 286. Publisher’s illustrated cloth; comically depicting a dandified black man in front of a slave cabin. A nearly fine copy. This book relates a version of the “Brer Rabbit, Brer Wolf and Tar Baby” story, immortalized by Joel Chandler.....
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BAYLY, THOMAS HAYNES, ESQWeeds of Witchery
London: Ackermann, 1837. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; titled in gilt; properly rebacked; front hinge started; modern (1949) ownership inscription on the the front free endpaper; some foxing; very good; with 12 engraved caricature plates. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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[FINE BINDINGS]. BULFINCH, THOMASAge of Chivalry
Philadelphia: McKay, 1900. Bookplate; small name stamp on the front free endpaper; 3/4 morocco, for Lauriat’s of Boston; raised bands; gilt rules; top edge gilt; some rubbing; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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BEHAN, BRENDANThe Quare Fellow
London: Methuen, 1956. First Edition of the author’s first book. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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FLEMING, IANThunderball
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First Edition. Fine a price-clipped dust jacket with very minor wear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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CATHER, WILLALucy Gayheart
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition; one of 749 numbered copies signed by the author; nearly fine in a rubbed publisher’s slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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ELIOT, GEORGEThe Mill On The Floss
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1860. First Edition; three volumes; publisher’s cloth; without the ad leaf in volume one (Carter’s first state); publisher’s catalogue in volume three; endpapers replaced at what appears to be an early date (evidenced by matching foxing on the preliminaries); minor cloth wear; scattered foxing; a very good set.....