Verlag: London: The British Library, 201, 2012
ISBN 10: 0712358641 ISBN 13: 9780712358644
Anbieter: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Verlag: London: The British Library, 2012., 2012
ISBN 10: 0712358641 ISBN 13: 9780712358644
Anbieter: The Maryland Book Bank, Baltimore, MD, USA
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.
Verlag: Penguin Press, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594201358 ISBN 13: 9781594201356
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st. 706 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. For the first time, Conan Doyle emerges from the shadow of Sherlock Holmes, revealing a man whose character and exploits rival that of his famous creation. In particular, Conan Doyle's correspondence with his mother exposes his endless search for fulfillment and success outside the Holmes stories. At age sixteen Conan Doyle began studying medicine at Edinburgh University. Just months shy of graduating, he made the adventurous decision to accept a position as a surgeon on a whaling ship heading to the Arctic. He returned to Edinburgh, graduated, and struggled to establish his own medical practice while simultaneously writing and promoting his stories. He suffered years of disappointment as both doctor and author; yet, to his amazement, just two months after the first Sherlock Holmes short stories, he had garnered such a following that he completely abandoned medicine for literature. As the public clamored endlessly for Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle explored other pursuits: He was a doctor during the Boer War, a World War I correspondent, and the foremost spokesman for Spiritualism. As his life changed, Doyle's correspondence with his mother remained constant. In his letters to 'the Mam,' Doyle shares the dismay he felt over the critical reception of his other writing, and as his irritation with the Holmes adventures mounts he announces his desire to kill off the character. She is his confidante and trusted counsel throughout her long life . . . Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters will be a must-have collection for readers interested in the author, Sherlock Holmes, and the Victorian era. / The authors, Daniel Stashower, Jon Lellenberg, and Charles Foley, are premier scholars and experts on both Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. Daniel Stashower, most recently the author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, is an award-winning mystery novelist, an Edgar Award winner and the recipient of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing. He is also the author of Teller of Tales, a widely praised biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Jon Lellenberg is the U.S agent for the Conan Doyle estate and coeditor of a number of anthologies of new Sherlock Holmes stories by mystery writers, as well as the historian of the Baker Street Irregulars. Charles Foley is the great-nephew of Arthur Conan Doyle and great-grandson of Mary Foley Doyle, as well as the present executor of the Conan Doyle Estate." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Verlag: London: The British Library, 2012., 2012
ISBN 10: 0712358641 ISBN 13: 9780712358644
Anbieter: River House Books, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover Cloth 364 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2012. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket sporting a HPB price tag is smooth and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the 'first real outstanding adventure' of his life, taking a berth as ships surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope . The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged him into dangerous work on the ice floes of the Arctic seas. He tested himself, overcame the hardships, and, as he wrote later, 'came of age at 80 degrees north latitude.' Conan Doyles time in the Arctic provided powerful fuel for his growing ambitions as a writer. With a ghost story set in the Arctic wastes that he wrote shortly after his return, he established himself as a promising young writer. A subsequent magazine article laying out possible routes to the North Pole won him the respect of Arctic explorers. And he would call upon his shipboard experiences many times in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, who was introduced in 1887s A Study in Scarlet . Out of sight for more than a century was a diary that Conan Doyle kept while aboard the whaler. Dangerous Diary of an Arctic Adventure makes this account available for the first time in a beautiful facsimile edition that reproduces Conan Doyles notebook pages in his own elegant hand, accompanied by his copious illustrations. With humor and grace, Conan Doyle provides a vivid account of a long-vanished way of life at sea. His careful detailing of the experience of arctic whaling is equal parts fascinating and alarming, revealing the dark workings of the later days of the British whaling industry. In addition to the facsimile and annotated transcript of the diary, the volume contains photographs of the Hope, its captain, and a young Conan Doyle on deck with its officers; two nonfiction pieces by Doyle about his experiences; and two of his tales inspired.
Verlag: New York: Penguin (2008), 2008
Anbieter: BOOK NOW, BENDIGO, VIC, Australien
215x140: 708pp. black and white illustrations, Paperback, Near Fine. ISBN: 9780 143 11433 8 , Weight: 590g. .
Verlag: The British Library, 2012
ISBN 10: 0712358641 ISBN 13: 9780712358644
Anbieter: Bookman's Cafe, New Philadelphia, OH, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Oversize hardcover in Fine/as new condition. Contents are clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Dustjacket is also Fine, protected in mylar wrap. 368 pgs inc index.
Verlag: London: The British Library, 2012., 2012
ISBN 10: 0712358641 ISBN 13: 9780712358644
Anbieter: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, USA
Zustand: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 3.13.
Verlag: London: The British Library, 2012., 2012
ISBN 10: 0712358641 ISBN 13: 9780712358644
Anbieter: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, USA
Zustand: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 3.13.
Verlag: THE BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON, UK, 2012
ISBN 10: 0712358641 ISBN 13: 9780712358644
Anbieter: Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition.
Verlag: London: The British Library, 2012., 2012
Anbieter: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
First edition (hardback). 4to (25cm by 22cm), viii, 368pp, including a 200pp facsimile of the manuscript. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 9780712358644.
Verlag: University of Chicago Press (2012), Chicago, IL, 2012
ISBN 10: 022600905X ISBN 13: 9780226009056
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Cloth w/DJ. Zustand: VG/VG. PhoBlack & White Illustrationstographs (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. VG/VG. (2012). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 2nd printing . Sm 4to., 368 pp., shelfwear .