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Click to view full description | 1. | Adrian, Jack, selected by. Foreword by Julian Symons. (Graham Greene, Beverley Nichols, W.W. Jacobs, Sapper, B.L. Jacot, D.H. Lawrence, L.T. Meade, H.G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, E. Nesbit, Arthur Conan Doyle, Martin Swayne, Grant Allen, et al.) STRANGE TALES FROM THE STRAND. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991. 373 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 019212305X Contents: All But Empty - Graham Greene; Lord Beden's Motor - J.B. Harris-Burland; The Tarn - Hugh Walpole; Resurgam - Rina Ramsay; The Railway Carriage - F. Tennyson Jesse; The Bell - Beverley Nichols; His Brother's Keeper - W.W. Jacobs; Touch and Go - Sapper; Waxworks - W.L. George; White Spectre - B.L. Jacot; "Tickets, Please!" - D.H. Lawrence; A Torture by Hope - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; A Horrible Fight - L.T. Meade; The Case of Roger Carboyne - H. Greenbough Smith; The Orchestra of Death - Ianthe Jerrold; The Lizard - C.J. Cutcliffe-Hyne; Inexplicable - L.G. Moberly; The Prophetic Camera - L. de Giberne Sieveking; Cavalanci's Curse - Henry A. Hering; The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper - H.G. Wells; The Black Grippe - Edgar Wallace; The Fog - Morley Roberts; The Thames Valley Catastrophe - Grant Allen; A Sense of the Future - Martin Swayne; The Silver Mirror - Arthur Conan Doyle; The Haunted House - E. Nesbit; How It Happened - Arthur Conan Doyle; The Power of Darkness - E. Nesbit; The Horror of the Heights - Arthur Conan Doyle. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling. NF/VG+ Price: 17.50 USD | See Full Description |
 | 2. | Bates, J.C. and Pierce, Lorne. (Ralph Connor, Norman Duncan, Bliss Carman, Mark Twain, Stephen Leacock, Saki, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Lewis Carroll, Pauline Johnson, Grey Owl, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Kerry Wood, et al.) LIFE AND ADVENTURE. Ryerson, (Toronto, 1949), 24th printing. 454 pp, small 8vo (7 7/8'' H), hard cover (medium brown cloth with lettering and decoration in dark brown and red on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. A middle school reader, with a collection of poetry, prose and plays collected under the headings: Playing the Game; Adventures in Friendship; Adventures in Fancy; The School Theatre; By Land, Sea and Air; Adventures in Courage; Laugh and Be Merry; Ways to Succeed; Adventures in Nature; and, The Land We Love. Canadian, American and English authors are represented. Interior - partial remains of old label on free front endpaper, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - browning to edges of textblock, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light edge wear, tiny light stain on bottom of textblock. VG Price: 15.00 USD | See Full Description |
| 3. | de Burgh, F. & Stoneman, Walter, collected by. (Alfred Noyes, G.K. Chesterton, Walter de la Mare, E.V. Knox, John Galsworthy, John Buchan, John Drinkwater, Eden Philpotts, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Compton Mackenzie, Arnold Bennett, W. Pett Ridge, et al.) ROSEMARY. Sampson, Low, Marston, London, n.d. 235 pp, 8vo (9'' H), hard cover (dark blue bevelled boards, gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. 21 b&w photo portraits. A collection of stories, essays and poems by Alfred Noyes, G.K. Chesterton, Walter de la Mare, E.V. Knox, John Galsworthy, John Buchan, John Drinkwater, Eden Philpotts, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Compton Mackenzie, Arnold Bennett, W. Pett Ridge, W.B. Maxwell, Stephen Graham, Stephen McKenna, Patrick MacGill, Harold Begbie, Max Pemberton, A.S.M. Hutchinson, Sir Sidney Low, and Sir Owen Seaman. Interior - previous owners name on free front endpaper, book lightly cracked in three places - pages firmly held in place, edges of photograph plates are wrinkled and have small closed tears. Exterior - light wrinkling to top/bottom of spine, top 1'' of rear board and all of spine lightly sun faded, a few minor marks on rear board. G+ Price: 17.50 USD | See Full Description |
 | 4. | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir. Introduction by Fitzroy Maclean. THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD. John Murray / Jonathan Cape, London, 1976. 221 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0719532272 "This book of reminiscences of the inimitable Brigadier Gerard....gives a colourful picture of the life of a soldier of France in the time of Napoleon. Gerard is an amusing raconteur, with an unswerving loyalty to country and emperor, but an instinctive recognition of the brotherhood in arms of all fighting men. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has filled 'The Exploits' with excitement and humour, and created a stirring picture of historical events as the ordinary soldier saw them." Previous owner's small stamp on front pastedown, minor wrinkling at bottom of spine, slight variation in color on top of textblock. Dust jacket is price clipped, has very minor edge wrinkling. Very Good/Very Good+ Price: 25.00 USD | See Full Description |
| 5. | Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE HISTORY OF SPIRITUALISM. VOLUMES I AND II IN ONE VOLUME. Arno Press, New York, 1975, reprint of George H. Doran edition of 1926. 329 pp, + 338 pp (2 volumes in 1), 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 024610919 B&w illustrations. Conan Doyle "produced 'The History of Spiritualism', 'to give man the strongest of all reasons to believe in spiritual immortality of the soul, to break down the barrier of death, to found the grand religion of the future'." Contents - Volume I: The Story of Swedenborg; Edward Irving: The Shakers; The Prophet of the New Revelation; The Hydesville Episode; The Career of the Fox S isters; First Developments in America; The Dawn in England; Continued Progress in England; The Career of D.D. Home; The Davenport Brothers; The Researches of Sir William Crookes (1870-1874); The Eddy Brothers and the Holmeses; Henry Slade and Dr. Monck; Collective Investigations of Spiritualism. Volume II: The Career of Eusapia Palladino; Great Mediums from 1870 to 1900 - Charles H. Foster - Madame d'Esperance - Eglington - Stainton Moses; The Society for Psychical Research; Ectoplasm; Spirit Photography; Voice Mediumship and Moulds; French, German, and Italian Spiritualism; Some Great Modern Mediums; Spiritualism and the War; The Religious Aspect of Spiritualism; The After-Life as Seen by Spiritualists; Appendix; Index. Light browning to pages, light browing to edges of textblock and to edges of boards, slight waviness to the fore-edge of some pages, tiny scuff to bottom edge of pages 151 to 164, very small dint to bottom edge of rear board, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, light rubbing, four tiny closed tears - two with crease. Very Good/Very Good. Price: 50.00 USD | See Full Description |
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