Ink on foolscap, approximately 12 x 8/1/2,” folded and spotted, but overall very good. Both sides have been employed recording the visits of Doctor Parker Clark, “Clerk for the Poor of Newbury Port [Massachusetts]” in 1789 and 1780 noting “Medicine Administered,” and the fees (in pounds and shillings) paid for.....
New York: Stokes, 1904. First Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, apparently upon or near publication, “To my Friend Irene Davison who helped me greatly with the literary part of this book. Robert Barr Oct 11 1905.” Spotted and worn; spine darkened; fair to good. The recipient was Barr’s.....
London: George Newnes, n.d. [1902]. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; minor rubbing; very good; the interior is in near fine condition. The volume consists of 48 color portraits, each mounted on a leaf with a preceding biographical page. Among the best of these portraits is one of Gillette as Holmes. Unlike.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition; one of 749 numbered copies signed by the author; about fine in a dust jacket with some chips and a split running down the center of the spine; in a rubbed publisher’s slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings.....
Boston: Phillips and Sampson, n.d. [c. 1846]. Edition undetermined, but the publication year is an estimate based on both the appearance of the book and a dated pencil gift inscription; publisher’s printed and illustrated wrappers; no. 4 in Aunt Mary’s Library for Little Folks; minor spotting and wear; very good.....
First Edition. “Holmes and the Dasher.” Very good in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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.....
Chicago and Summit, New Jersey: Argus Books/ Pamphlet House, 1948. First Edition. Binding mended; penciled notes in the text; good. Both supplements are laid in. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. First Edition. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers; Goldstone bookplate; good to very good. “A Pragmatic Enigma.” All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
46 pages in Charteris’s hand, written with two different pens, on the verso of the defunct Bond-Charteris Enterprises’ printed production forms. Bound in a three ring, brad-fastened folder titled and signed by the author, with an extraordinary three page holograph letter (Hollywood, 28 March 47) presenting the piece, signed by.....
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No place of publication: Fanlight Press, 1947 (?). First Edition. One printed sheet, folded. Fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First Edition; trade issue; publisher’s reddish-brown cloth; foxed, shaken and worn; only a good copy; in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. However, this copy has been inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Godfrey Tearle, Because the 7-10 is not running this month (and.....
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