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£195



London, Newnes, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.

A seemingly scarce first edition, the jacket suggesting that the author is in fact 'a well-known fiction author'. An ingenious tale, with a dash of humour, plus Abbey artwork!

£250


[pp.210-224 in The Strand Magazine, vol.LXV
London, Newnes, January - June 1923].

First edition. 4to. Publisher's bevelled pale blue pictorial cloth blocked in black & gilt.

An unsettling, cautionary Sherlock Holmes tale about drug-fuelled lust...and a certain amount of monkey business. Included in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). Other authors present in this volume include P.G. Wodehouse (including 'Jeeves Takes Charge'), Aldous Huxley and E. Phillips Oppenheim.

£250


[pp.288-298 in The Strand Magazine, vol.LXII]
London, Newnes, July - December 1921.

First edition. 4to. Publisher's bevelled pale blue pictorial cloth blocked in black & gilt.

Classic Sherlock Holmes, weaving deception to apprehend a jewel-thief and would-be murderer; one of only two Holmes stories written in the third-person. Included in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). Other authors present in this volume include P.G. Wodehouse (including 'Clicking of Cuthbert'), Edgar Wallace and E. Phillips Oppenheim.

£400


in The Strand, from August 1901 to April 1902
London, Newnes, 1901-2.

2 vols. First edition (preceding the first book form edition). Large 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.

The Hound of the Baskervilles first appeared thus in serialised format in The Strand magazine between 1901 & 1902, before getting its own rather handsome book edition of its own! One of the best Sherlock Holmes stories, in its original published format and in unusually good condition.

£150



London, Newnes, 1945.

First edition. 8vo. Original pale green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

The third of the author's 'Lone Pine' series, set in Shropshire.