john james pitcairn (14 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition thus. Oswald Train Philadelphia 1977 1st ed. 196pp Very good with spine heel bumped, foxing to page edges, light soiling to cloth boards in like jacket with light rubbing and wear. See photos clphE.

Octavo, illustrations by P. B. Hickling, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 500 copies printed. A sequence of six criminous stories that first appeared in CASSELL'S MAGAZINE in 1904 and 1905. A fine copy. Trade paperback format. (#177404).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Red cloth gilt. First American edition stated. Bumping to spine, slight shelfwear. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is faintly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. William Dixon(Jacket Design) Ilustrador. Second Printing. The Adventures of Romney Pringle by Clifford Ashdown A tight bright copy. Unread. A bright jacket with minor dust-soiling. No dust jacket present. Second American printing, 1972. Green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. G1-AS NEW regular size hardcover in a near fine, spine toned jacket. tan w/brown lettering Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. 2nd edition hardcover. fine in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. fine in a near fine dust jacket couple age spots.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light generalized toning and there is one small semi-closed tear to the front panel. "Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology." (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. William Dixon(Jacket Design) Ilustrador. First Edition. The Adventures of Romney Pringle by R. Austin Freeman Dr. John James Pitcairn (Clifford Ashdown) Clifford Ashdown (R. Austin Freeman & John J. Pitcairn) A tight bright unread copy. A bright dust jacket with minor edge wear. Clear protective cover. First American Edition, stated. Red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Fred Pegram Ilustrador. 1st Edition. In original red boards with gilt titling, call this hardcover bound volume of the Edwardian monthly magazine, "good." (Color frontispiece protected by a tissue guard, and that tissue guard alone shows some foxing.) From 1905 through his death in 1943 (and beyond -- posthumous story collections popped up well into the 1970s) former colonial surgeon R(ichard) Austin Freeman was celebrated as one of Britain's leading purveyors of detective fiction, the bulk of his tales featuring medico-forensic sleuth Dr. Thorndyke and his man, Polson. However, in collaboration with his friend John James Pitcairn (medical officer of Holloway Prison), Freeman actually wrote an earlier series of six tales featuring a character whose talents, powers of observation, and mastery of disguise easily matched those of Sherlock Holmes, but who turned those skills to the service of . . . crime. The original six adventures of gentleman burglar, con man and stock manipulator Romney Pringle were published in Cassell's Magazine from June through November, 1902, under the pseudonym "Clifford Ashdown." The tales were then gathered into a small hardcover book published by Ward Lock, dated 1902, and titled (straightforwardly enough) "The Adventures of Romney Pringle." Which pretty much disappeared. Six copies of that hardcover first edition are believed to remain in existence -- several of which have now emerged from the woodwork here on ABE. But authorities as notable as Ellery Queen have declared "The Adventures of Romney Pringle" the "rarest book in detective fiction" (though there are other nominees for that honor, of course.) R.B. Russell estimated the value of a nice copy of that stand-alone hardcover at about $2,200 in 2010 . . . though those stalking a copy today might be well advised to have $4,000 at the ready. But is that coveted small book REALLY the first hardcover edition? For not only do all six of the tales appear in this bound volume of Cassell's Magazine dated "1902.2" -- June through November of that year -- but they're accompanied here by the fine original illustrations by Fred Pegram, at the original "large octavo" magazine size -- some of them striking full-page plates with image areas of 5X8 inches! This bound volume also features a series of non-fiction essays by R. Austin Freeman on Britain's lighthouses, as well as profiles of Mark Twain and Thomas A. Edison (by other hands), this 668-pg. bound volume is rarely encountered. Here reduced from $725.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Fred Pegram Ilustrador. 1st Edition. In original red boards with gilt titling, call this hardcover bound volume of the Edwardian monthly magazine, "good-plus." From 1905 through his death in 1943 (and beyond -- posthumous story collections popped up well into the 1970s) former colonial surgeon R(ichard) Austin Freeman was celebrated as one of Britain's leading purveyors of detective fiction, the bulk of his tales featuring medico-forensic sleuth Dr. Thorndyke and his man, Polson. However, in collaboration with his friend John James Pitcairn (medical officer of Holloway Prison), Freeman actually wrote an earlier series of six tales featuring a character whose talents, powers of observation, and mastery of disguise easily matched those of Sherlock Holmes, but who turned those skills to the service of . . . crime. The original six adventures of gentleman burglar, con man and stock manipulator Romney Pringle were published in Cassell's Magazine from June through November, 1902, under the pseudonym "Clifford Ashdown." The tales were then gathered into a small hardcover book published by Ward Lock, dated 1902, and titled (straightforwardly enough) "The Adventures of Romney Pringle." Which pretty much disappeared. Six copies of that hardcover first edition are believed to remain in existence -- several of which have now emerged from the woodwork here on ABE. But authorities as notable as Ellery Queen have declared "The Adventures of Romney Pringle" the "rarest book in detective fiction" (though there are other nominees for that honor, of course.) R.B. Russell estimated the value of a nice copy of that stand-alone hardcover at about $2,200 in 2010 . . . though those stalking a copy today might be well advised to have $4,000 at the ready. But is that coveted small book REALLY the first hardcover edition? For not only do all six of the tales appear in this bound volume of Cassell's Magazine dated "1902.2" -- June through November of that year -- but they're accompanied here by the fine original illustrations by Fred Pegram, at the original "large octavo" magazine size -- some of them striking full-page plates with image areas of 5X8 inches! This bound volume also features a series of non-fiction essays by R. Austin Freeman on Britain's lighthouses, as well as profiles of Mark Twain and Thomas A. Edison (by other hands), this 668-pg. bound volume is rarely encountered. Reduced from $770.

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. fine in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. fine in a fine dust jacket 1968, advertising sheet laid in.

VERY GOOD WITHOUT D.J. PRINGLE WAS KIND OF A GENTLEMAN THIEF THIS IS THE QUEEN'S QUORUM TITLE (# 30) OF LEGENDARY RARITY WHICH QUEEN HIMSELF OPINES WAS "DESTINED TO BECOME THE RAREST VOLUME OF DETECTIVE-CRIME SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY." IN 1951 QUEEN REPORTED: "BIBLIOPHILES AND BOOKSCOUTS HAVE SCOURED ENGLAND AND AMERICA, SEEKING IN THE MOST LIKELY AND UNLIKELY PLACES; YET AFTER NEARLY FIFTY YEARS OF EAGLE-EYED AND EXPERT EXCAVATING, THE RECORDED COPIES TOTAL EXACTLY SIX- NO MORE, NO LESS." THE ADRIAN GOLDSTONE COPY WHICH WAS RESOLD AT SOTHEBY'S IN DECEMBER 2000 HAS BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS. ONE WONDERS IF THERE WERE INDEED SO FEW COPIES WHY MORE THAN ONE COLOR OF CLOTH WAS USED, BUT AFTER ANOTHER 55 YEARS SINCE QUEEN MADE THE ABOVE STATEMENT ONLY A FEW OTHERS SEEMED TO HAVE TURNED UP SO HIS ORIGINAL INFORMAL CENSUS MAY BE SOMETHING OTHER THAN EXAGERATION WHICH WAS HOW IT WAS CHARACTERIZED IN THE 1981 ADRIAN GOLDSTONE CATALOGUE. RED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES ON SPINE AND FRONT COVER WITH VIGNETTE IN WHITE, NOW PERISHED, ON THE FRONT COVER, WITH 4 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED PEGRAM, AND 2 PAGE CATALOGUE FOLLOWING PAGE 198. OTHER THAN A PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME ON THE FRONT PASTE-DOWN ENDPAPER, AN ORIGINAL BOOK SELLER'S STAMP "J. A. FULKERSON/ SHOAL LAKE MAN." ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, SOME TINY SPOTTING AT THE HEEL OF THE SPINE, SOME MODEST RESTORATION TO THE SURFACE OF THE UPPER COVER TO REPAIR SOME WATER DAMAGE, SOME SCATTERED TOBACCO STAINS IN THE TEXT, AND A FEW DOG-EARED PAGES, A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.