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Detective Fiction
New York, A.L. Burt, n.d. [1928].
First Burt edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
The fifth and final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. It brings together the twelve stories published in The Strand, Collier's and Liberty between October 1921 and April 1927. First published in June 1927, by John Murray in London and George H. Doran in New York. This is the A. L. Burt reprint, "Published by arrangement with Doubleday, Doran & Company", carrying the Doran copyright notice. A. L. Burt, founded in New York in 1883, specialised in inexpensive reprints of popular fiction. The pictorial jacket shows Holmes in silhouette with deerstalker and pipe, and the rear panel advertises Burt's "Newest Books in Popular Copyright Fiction", including Wodehouse's The Small Bachelor.
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Detective Fiction
A Sherlock Holmes novel
New York, A.L. Burt, n.d. [c.1920].
Early US printing. 8vo. Original brown cloth lettered in off-white. Dust-jacket.
The fourth and final Holmes novel (1914-15), its flashback half loosely dramatising the real Pinkerton infiltration of the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coalfields - the Birdy Edwards character standing in for the actual agent James McParland. A.L. Burt reprint of the 1915 first (George H. Doran/Smith, Elder). This edition was issued around 1920, so a scarce find in the original jacket in such good condition.
Detective Fiction
New York, A.L. Burt, n.d. [c.1923].
8vo. Original pictorial grey cloth. Dust-jacket.
A.L. Burt was a New York reprint house that issued Doyle's work under licence from the early 1890s into the 1930s, this being one of their later printings of the 1892 collection rather than a true first edition (Newnes/Harper, 1892). Unusually fresh for a common reprint format.
Detective Fiction
New York, A.L. Burt, n.d. [c.1922].
8vo. Original pictorial light grey cloth. Dust-jacket.
The second Holmes story collection (1893), closing with 'The Final Problem,' in which Holmes apparently dies fighting Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls - a twist that provoked public outcry and forced Doyle to revive the character a decade later.
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Detective Fiction
New York, A.L. Burt, 1919 [?1920s].
Early US printing (copyright Robert M. McBride, with statement 'Published September, 1919'). 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket.
A gripping thriller about the drug trade in London, reflecting Sax Rohmer's skill in combining exoticism and crime.
Detective Fiction
New York, A.L. Burt, [c.1929].
Early edition, Burts' 75c series. 8vo. Original orange cloth stamped in black. Dust-jacket.
Excellent jacket artwork on this early edition of a crime thriller by Thayer, who went on to provide a publisher's art service in New York, including designing artwork for dust-jackets. First published by Sears in 1928.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
or, a Captain at Fifteen
New York, A.L. Burt, n.d..
8vo. Original pale green cloth. Dust-jacket.
An attractive early Burt edition of this Verne tale revolving around African slavery.