FS: 2nd Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Sat. November 28th
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jacket. Octavo. NY: Lyle Stuart, (1967). Very good+ condition with
like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. Unauthorized biography of
Howard Hughes. $15.00.
Mehta, Ved. JOHN IS EASY TO PLEASE. 241 pgs. Cloth in price-clipped
dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1971). 1st Edition.
Very good+ condition with good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
Essays collected from a decade of reportorial work from the New
Yorker. $20.00.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. A STUDY IN SCARLET. Introduction by Hugh
Greene. Cloth in very lightly chipped black dust jacket. Octavo.
(London): Murray & Cape, (1974). Near fine condition with very good
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. THE SIGN OF THE FOUR. Introduction by Graham
Greene. Cloth in lightly chipped black dust jacket. Octavo. (London):
Murray & Cape, (1974). 1st Edition Thus. Near fine condition with very
good jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Introduction
by Angus Wilson. Cloth in very lightly chipped black dust jacket.
Octavo. (London): Murray & Cape, (1974). 1st Edition Thus. Near fine
condition with very good jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.
Richman, Harry. A HELL OF A LIFE. 242 pgs. Photo. Cloth in white dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1966). 1st Edition. Very
good condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.
McLaren, John. GARDENING IN CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE & FLOWER. 395 pgs
with index. Photos. Green cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. San
Francisco: Robertson, 1924. Lightly rubbed; taped article on front
endpapers; inked name/date; otherwise, very good condition. $50.00.
NATIONAL GALLERY ILLUSTRATIONS. 3 Volumes [British School; Italian
Schools; Continental Schools (Excluding Italian)]. Reproductions
throughout. Beige cloth, without dust jackets. Octavo. London:
Trustees, 1936-7. Spines & extremities somewhat darkened; endsheets
very lightly foxed; otherwise, good+ condition. The Set: $45.00.
Doyle, Conan. BASKERVILLES HUND: Jamte Annu Nagra af Sherlock Holmes
Afventyr. Rebound in new olive cloth with original paper wrappers
bound in. 12mo. Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Forlag, (1902). Near fine
condition. Swedish translation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
$100.00.
[Doyle] Lehmann, R.C. THE ADVENTURES OF PICKLOCK HOLES. Drawings.
Cloth in mustard dust jacket. Octavo. Boulder, CO: Aspen, 1975. 1st
U.S. Edition [so stated], limited to 250 hardbound copies. Fine
condition with near fine jacket in protective mylar wrapper. A
Sherlock Holmes parody cycle. $50.00.
[Doyle] Lehmann, R.C. THE ADVENTURES OF PICKLOCK HOLES. Drawings.
Mustard paper wrappers. Octavo. Boulder, CO: Aspen, 1975. Edition
limited to 500 copies. Fine condition. A Sherlock Holmes parody cycle.
$35.00.
Turner, Frederick. THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 375 pgs with
index. Black cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Holt, (1962). 1st
Edition. Fine condition. $17.00.
[Doyle] Walker, Dale. JACK LONDON, SHERLOCK HOLMES & SIR ARTHUR CONAN
DOYLE. 39 pgs. Mustard paper wrappers. 12mo. Amsterdam, NY: Fick,
1974. Edition limited to 500 copies. Fine condition. $35.00.
[Doyle] Solovay, Jacob. SHERLOCK HOMES: TWO SONNET SEQUENCES.
Introduction by August Derleth. Drawings. Stapled cream paper
wrappers. Octavo. (Culver City, CA: Norris, 1969). Edition limited to
300 copies. Fine condition. $25.00.
Hamon, Philippe. EXPOSITIONS: Literature & Architecture in
19th-Century France. 218 pgs with index. Cloth in black dust jacket.
Octavo. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1992). 1st
Edition. Fine condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
$17.50.
[Doyle] THE PONTINE DOSSIER - Volume 2, Number 2. 80 pgs. Photos &
drawings. Stapled white paper wrappers. Octavo. Culver City, CA:
Norris, 1974. Fine condition. Sherlockian essays. $25.00.
Dakin, D. Martin. HOLMESIAN CLERIHEWS. 17 pgs. Drawings. Stapled white
paper wrappers. Octavo. (Culver City, CA: Norris, 1975). Near fine
condition. $30.00.
[Doyle] Jaffee, Irving. ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WATSON: A Series of
Articles on the Great Detective, & Some Others. 82 pgs. White paper
wrappers. Octavo. Brooklyn, NY: Theo. Gaus' Sons, (1965). Covers
lightly spotted; otherwise, very good condition. $40.00.
Ashe, Arthur. A HARD ROAD TO GLORY: A History of the African-American
Athlete 1619-1918. 194 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in black dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Amistad, (1988). 1st Edition. Very good+ condition
with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.
[Doyle] THE AFFAIR OF THE LOST COMPRESSION. 24 pgs. Stapled cream
paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): Ferret Fantasy, (1975). 1st Edition,
limited to 500 copies. Top edge lightly rippled; otherwise, near fine
condition. $25.00.
[Doyle] Walker, Dale. JACK LONDON, SHERLOCK HOLMES & SIR ARTHUR CONAN
DOYLE. 39 pgs. Blue cloth, without dust jacket. 12mo. Amsterdam, NY:
Fick, 1974. Edition limited to 100 copies. Fine condition. $125.00.
[Doyle] Hardwick, Michael. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DR. WATSON: Being the
Personal Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. Cloth in dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Dutton, (1983). 1st Edition [so stated]. Fine condition
with near fine jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $35.00.
Wignall, C.J. COMPLETE BRITISH RAILWAYS MAPS & GAZETTEER From
1830-1981. 84 text pgs + 87 color maps. Cloth in spine-sunned red dust
jacket. Quarto. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Company, (1983). 1st
Edition. Fine condition with very good jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $25.00.
Sixma, Herman & Theo van Geffen. TOP GUNS! F-14/F-15/F-16/F-18. 64 pgs
with index. Color photos throughout. Paper wrappers. 16mo. Surrey,
England: Ian Allan, (1998). Fine condition. $15.00.
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