New York: George H. Doran Company, (1926). Original yellow-green cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition, published two months after the English. This is Doyle's psychic novel, for which he resurrected Professor Challenger (who had journeyed to the land of the dinosaurs in THE LOST WORLD and had faced the... More
Pictures by Morton Sale. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. Original dark blue cloth with walking-stick in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of Buchan's highly unusual juvenile fantasy. Young Bill is given a walking-stick by a "wizened old man," and promptly sets off on a series of magical adventures --... More
[the third UK edition] With One Hundred and Twelve Illustrations. Third Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. 8 pp ads dated "for the season 1872-73." Original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all edges gilt. "Third Edition" -- i.e. the third printing of the first... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, published twenty days before the American, of the fourth of the five novels featuring Buchan's protagonist Sir Edward Leithen (he was introduced in THE POWER-HOUSE (1916), and the fifth and last would be SICK HEART RIVER (1941))... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition. As with Buchan's MIDWINTER (1923), this is a tale sited in Buchan's adopted home of Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds. Taking place during the reign of Henry VIII, a country boy is convinced by three self-serving men that... More
