Sherlock holmes character (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover, oversized catalog (no dust jacket as issued). 168 p. Includes detailed entries and hundreds of full color illustrations documenting all 221 treasures selected for this exhibit and catalog. Includes images of rare, often one-of-a-kind, first editions and dust jackets, holograph letters, original manuscripts of short stories, original artwork, rare film posters, and pages from rare editions. One of the rarest items featured is the only known 1892 first edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in its original dust jacket. The two-page provenance traces ownership of this rarity through none other than Mark Hofmann, the infamous Mormon document forger, bomber and confessed murderer. The Mysterious Bookshop reported that it was published in only 500 copies, but this has not been confirmed.…

Condición: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original very dark green almost black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 18mo. 6'' x 4¼''. Reeve is famous mostly for the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were collected in book form; with the third collection, the short stories were published grouped together as episodic novels. The 12-volume publication Craig Kennedy Stories was released during 1918; it reissued Reeve's books-to-date as a matched set. The Adventuress was the first full-length novel to feature scientific detective Craig Kennedy. Contains 244 pp. Cheap paper tanning to the closed text block edges, feint pencil name to the half-title. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with one small chip to the bottom front edge, spine not faded with the paper being particularly crisp and bright. Last book listed to the inside rear flap, first edition by Harper and Brothers was first published in 1917. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…