Memories and Adventures
Boston: Little, Brown, 1924. First American Edition. Very good or a little better. More
[Book #32120P]
Boston: Little, Brown, 1924. First American Edition. Very good or a little better. More
[Book #32120P]
London: John Murray, 1930. Second edition; first issue. Some foxing; very good plus in dust jacket. This edition contains some revisions by the author, with a new preface. More
[Book #36856P]
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1918. First Edition. Pages a little browned as usual; very good in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author at the top of the title page, “Yours affectionately, Arthur Conan Doyle.”. More
[Book #36851P]
This play was produced in London in 1906, and is apparently unpublished. Consisting of the following: Act I; 26 pages plus title page and a list of “Dramatis Personae;” with many ink and pencil corrections in the author’s hand; plain wrappers, ribbon-bound. Act II; 22 pages plus title page; corrected..... More
[Book #31067P]
New York: Hodder & Stoughton/ George H. Doran, 1913. First American Edition. A good to very good copy of the second Professor Challenger story. More
[Book #17284P]
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1905. First Edition, preceding the English edition. The illustrations by Charles Raymond Macauley were not used in the English edition (with its Strand Magazine drawings by Sidney Paget), or the American magazine appearances, which featured those by Frederic Dorr Steele. Small glue spot on the front..... More
[Book #36857P]
London: Smith, Elder, 1896. First Edition. Bottom of spine chipped, else very good. Inscribed by the author a day before publication, “With A Conan Doyle’s kind regards Nov 12/96/.”. More
[Book #36854P]
London: Smith, Elder, 1896. First Edition. Review copy; with a holograph publisher’s letter laid in, “November 9th 1896/ The Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News...We have the pleasure to send herewith a copy of Dr. Conan Doyle’s new novel ‘Rodney Stone’ for the purpose of review, but we..... More
[Book #36855P]
London: Spencer, Blackett, 1890. First Edition; in the first issue Spencer, Blackett binding. Hinges splitting slightly; minor cloth wear; overall, a sound, very good, clean copy; in a clamshell box, paired with a near fine copy (bookplate on the front paste-down) of the first edition in the second issue binding..... More
[Book #25166P]
New York: P.F. Collier, 1891. First American Edition; publisher's printed wrappers; some staining to the wrappers and loss of lettering from tape removal along the edges of the front and back wrappers where they meet the spine; very good; in a custom clamshell box. This novel was first issued in..... More
[Book #19545P]
New York: Isaac Pitman, n.d. [ca. 1916 or later]. “Centenary Edition.” Publisher’s cloth; in shorthand; very good. This edition was originally issued to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Pitman’s birth in 1813. More
[Book #31252P]
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1890. Publisher's bindings of Vol. XLV in two volumes (as issued, only text, without wrappers or ads); including the first appearance of this Sherlock Holmes novel as well as Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray. The frugal publisher issued copies in various schemes, with different overall titles and bindings..... More
[Book #36846P]
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1898. First American Edition; some foxing; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author in the month after publication, “With A Conan Doyle’s kindest remembrances of old days. Oct. 1898.”. More
[Book #36848P]
Probably 1908-1909, a dramatization by Doyle of his novel The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). Entirely in Doyle’s neat, readable hand, consisting of dialogue, mostly between the two main characters, the Colonel and Sadie. Foolscap; top edges torn and chipped, with no loss of writing. These pages were in the..... More
[Book #34782P]
New York: George H. Doran, 1915. First Edition; preceding the English edition by several months. A nearly fine copy in an excellent example of the rare color pictorial dust jacket. The jacket has had some archival mending and strengthening, with chips replaced along the top of the front panel and..... More
[Book #35984P]
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919. First Edition. A near fine copy; inscribed by the author on the title page, “Yours sincerely, Arthur Conan Doyle. July, 1921.”. More
[Book #36849P]
San Francisco: Beaune Press, 1968. First Edition thus; with an introduction by Dean Dickensheet and printing Guiterman’s poem. Wrappers; one of 222 copies; inscribed by publisher Dickensheet to San Francisco bookseller David Magee. Near fine. More
[Book #29950P]
San Francisco: Beaune Press, 1968. First Edition thus; with an introduction by Dean Dickensheet and Guiterman’s poem. Wrappers; one of 222 copies; inscribed by publisher Dickensheet to Frederic Dannay; near fine. More
[Book #14640P]
London: John Murray, 1959. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips. More
[Book #20925P]
London: John Murray, 1959. First Edition. Some underlining, else about fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips and tears. More
[Book #17003P]
London: privately printed, 1959. First Edition; presentation issue; one of 100 numbered copies bound in full leather. A fine copy in the publisher’s slipcase. More
[Book #14297P]
Boston, New York and London: Hudson House, 2000. Revised and Expanded Edition; with addenda and corrigenda; 726 pages; illustrated. Long out-of-print, we have published this new edition in association with the Mysterious Bookshop in New York and Nigel Williams Rare Books in London. A superb accomplishment: in the dry world..... More
[Book #12521P]
London: Clarendon Press, 1983. First Edition of this superb scholarly work. Each major entry has extensive and highly readable notes regarding the publication history of the item. Fine in dust jacket and the original cardboard slipcase. More
[Book #11401P]
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1927. First Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed by Lambton. Very good. With a short account of Doyle’s membership in “The Crimes Club” and a full page photo portrait reproduction of Doyle. More
[Book #32395P]