Edited by edgar w smith (11 Ergebnisse)

HARDCOVER. Zustand: G- / NONE. GOOD-MINUS HARDBACK. EX-LIBRARY WITH TYPICAL MARKINGS. HEAVILY WORN BUT SOLID SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. WITH "VR" ON COVER IN 4 PLACES AS IF MADE UP OF BULLET HOLES. Illus. By Steele, Paget, Etc (illustrator).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition (quarterly publication). Covers lightly soiled, rubbed, and stain. Paper on spine worn Two interior pictures have stained top corner. Text copy age toned. Otherwise a clean and unmarked journal in good condition. 132 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Published w/out dj. First edition thus. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1981. 1st edition thus, F/. Book has very little wear. Full leather, gilt designs on both covers and spine, ribbon book-mark, a.e.g. Illustrated with a selective collation of the original drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others, color frontispiece. Intro by Vincent Starrett. Beautiful book, 764 pp. BP.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Collector's Edition bound in genuine leather covers. ".illustrated with a selective collation of the original illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others.".

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1944. First edition. xx, 312pp., a black and white frontispiece and other in-text illustrations and 2 leaves of plates. The list of illustrations states endpaper maps but the endpapers in this copy are blank. This is a collection of essays and commentary that explore the world and character of Sherlock Holmes. It is divided into the following sections: Sherlock Holmes the Legend; Sherlock Holmes the Man; About Dr Watson; The Baker Street Scene; and The Baker Street Irregulars. Contributors include Vincent Starrett, Howard Collins, Christopher Morley, Logan Gelndinning, Rex Stout, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Edgar W. Smith. The book is bound in the original dark red paper covered boards with gold titling on the spine and a blind-stamped silhouette of Holmes on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and wear to the paper covering the corner tips. The spine is faded with bumping to the bottom of the spine and loss of about 1/8" from the top of the spine. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Red boards with black and gold lettering on spine. Title and copyright pages dated 1944. 312 pages. Shelf wear on boards. Corners bumped. Name written in blue ink on front free endpaper dated April 1944. Very Good condition. Binding clean and tight. Deckled edge pages. Frontispiece illustration by Frederick Dorr Steele. Please contact us with questions or if you'd like to see photographs.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Volume 1, Number 1. Octavo. 108pp. Printed wrappers. Wrappers with some light dustsoiling, faint marginal dampstain in the upper corner (not affecting the text), corners gently creased, very good.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. No DJ Issued. Unread. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Gilt page edges. 764pp.

Octavo, four issues, printed wrappers. The first four issues of the first series. A very good set. (#81191).

1980, 1981. (Leather binding) Near fine. 1777pp. The complete 3 volumes in black leather, decoratively stamped in gilt and raised bands on the spines. Orange moire endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon page markers, illustrations. Easton Press bookplate with a previous owner's name affixed to the first blank page of each volume. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. Illustrations by Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele & Frank Wiles. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. (Mystery).…

Zustand: Very Good. (Morristown, New Jersey: The Baker Street Irregulars, Inc. 1958). A softback (not issued with a dustwrapper). LIMITED OF 350 COPIES THIS BEING # 100. Publisher's pink wrappers lettered in black with an image of Sherlock Holmes to the front cover. A slither of surface loss to the tip of the spine. Wrappers faded to the front cover and spine. Titles added to the otherwise blank spine on a black strip produced using a home-embossing label maker. Overall a VG+ copy. A compilation of 19 Sherlockian essays and articles originally published between 1902 and 1944. Anthony Boucher review of this book, taken from the New York Times Book Review, 6 July 1958. ".the most valuable volume yet in the B. S. I.'s splendid series of limited editions. Here assembled for the first time are virtually all of the important analytical writings about Holmes before the rise of the Holmesian cult.it should please not merely Irregulars, but every admirer of adroit scholarly satire." Referenced in Ron De Waal's "The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:" Decidedly uncommon. Further photographs available upon request.…