Peter L. Stern

Chicago: Fanlight Press, 1946. First Edition. 250 copies were printed. Minor wrapper spots. Shaw bookplate. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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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.....

More info about Players Of The Day: A Series of Portraits In Colour Of Theatrical Celebrities of the Present Time

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1935. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to another artist, “Much love to Isabel [Bishop] from her admiring friend, P.B.” Below the inscription is a detailed, half-page pen and ink drawing of a girl rummaging through a trash.....

More info about Cat-Calls. With Drawings by the Author

First Edition. “Holmes and the Dasher.” Very good in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Jugged Journaism

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.

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London: Alston Rivers, 1904. First Edition. Queen’s Quorum. Publisher’s cloth; ownership signature; some cloth spots; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about The Loot of Cities

New York: James Miller, 1863. First American Edition. Publisher’s cloth; bookplate; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets

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.....

More info about Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

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.

More info about An Irregular Guide to Sherlock Holmes

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.....

More info about The Speculations of John Steele

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket. As usual, the binding lettering is in silver; a small number were issued in yellow. Widely panned, this is a weak effort from an author that so much was expected of. For all that, while it suffers.....

More info about Playback

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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