A Romance of the Unromantic. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 32 pp ads dated April 1890. Original maroon cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel, preceded by several short tales and by the historical MICAH CLARKE. This is a highly autobiographical tale, with good descriptions... More
![THE GREAT BOER WAR [inscribed by Doyle, plus letter]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14016.jpg?v=1519760215)
[inscribed plus autograph letter] Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1902. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. "Revised and Enlarged Edition," which consisted of only 1,005 copies. This was Doyle's first volume of non-fiction: the outbreak of war occupied Doyle's mind so utterly that he... More
[in original glassine] Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1914. Original rose paper-covered boards pictorially decorated in black, with original plain glassine wrapper. First Edition (there was no British edition). Doyle wrote this in 1913 (at which time it appeared in the Fortnightly Review), but it was not published in book... More
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
![THE LAST GALLEY [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14028.jpg?v=1521658427)
Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1911. 6 pp undated ads + 8 pp (printed in brown) undated ads + 12 pp ads dated Jan 1911. Original blind-stamped blue-grey cloth. First Edition, colonial issue, issued as No. 1000 of "Bell's Indian and Colonial Library." This is... More
[in 1911 pictorial jacket - as ne] Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in yellow and black, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this collection of eighteen tales, including several of a science fiction vein. The color... More
![THE LOST WORLD [colonial edition]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/13953.jpg?v=1512587302)
Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger... London New York Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1912]. Original bright red cloth decorated in gilt and white. First Edition, colonial issue, of Doyle's first Professor Challenger science fiction tale. The exploring party ventures to a lost... More
![THE MARACOT DEEP and Other Stories [colonial edition]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/13955.jpg?v=1512587302)
[a colonial copy, fine in jacket] London: John Murray, (1929). 10 pp undated ads (John Murray), plus 12 pp ads dated January 1929 (Murray's Imperial Library). Original light grey cloth lettered in black, with pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, colonial issue, of the last volume of fiction to be published... More
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Original black cloth decorated in yellow, with dust jacket. First American Edition of the last volume of fiction to be published during Doyle's lifetime. The title tale is Doyle's great science fiction adventure in which Professor Maracot leads an expedition to the... More
As made to his Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben during the Hard Winter of 1734... London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 2 pp undated ads + 16 pp ads dated January 1889. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled edges. First Edition, consisting of only 1000 copies. This historical novel... More
[in the scarce wrappers] Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1894. Original grey wrappers lettered in dark blue. First Edition, being the first volume in the publisher's ill-fated "Acme Library" (also issued in blue cloth). This is a suspenseful tale involving mesmeric trances and mind control; as G&G points out, Doyle's... More
![RODNEY STONE [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14022.jpg?v=1521658390)
With Illustrations. London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1896. 10 pp [paginated 7-16] undated ads. Original mottled light pink cloth. First Edition, colonial issue, being No. 143 in Bell's Indian and Colonial Library. RODNEY STONE is a historical novel that curiously brings together Lord Nelson and the sport of... More
![THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14026.jpg?v=1521658390)
With Sixteen Illustrations. London: George Bell & Sons, 1907. 16 pp ads dated Nov 1907. Original red cloth stamped in blind. First Edition, colonial issue -- No. 768 in "Bell's Indian & Colonial Library." This is a group of literary essays, written as wanderings about the library in the Doyle... More
![THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14025.jpg?v=1521658390)
With Forty Full-Page Illustrations. London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1898. 16 pp ads dated August 1897. Original blind-stamped bright rose cloth. First English Edition (published about a week after the Philadelphia edition titled A DESERT DRAMA), colonial issue -- No. 204 in "Bell's Indian & Colonial Library." This... More
![UNCLE BERNAC. A Memory of the Empire [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14024.jpg?v=1521658390)
London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. 16 pp ads dated Nov 1896. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. First Colonial Edition, issued as No. 168 of Bell's Indian and Colonial Library. This was one of several fictional historical works that Doyle wrote during the last five years of the century... More
Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1915]. Original red cloth. First Edition (published more than three months before the London edition) of this Sherlock tale sited half in an English manor house and half in the coal mining villages of Pennsylvania. As Doyle later... More
![THE WANDERINGS OF A SPIRITUALIST [inscribed plus three letters]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/13970.jpg?v=1516644143)
[FOUR signatures of A. Conan Doyl] Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1921]. Original green cloth. First American Edition, issued in the same month as the English edition, and consisting of only 1500 copies. This is Doyle's account of his 1920-1921 missionary tour of Australia and New Zealand... More
London: Central Committee for National Patriotic Organizations, n.d. [1915]. Original light brown wrappers. First Edition. This propaganda pamphlet, describing the Germans' treatment of British prisoners of war, was circulated in an effort to win over countries remaining neutral. Included are many specific examples. Doyle observes in his Foreword,~Never again in... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. Original navy blue cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 2,000 copies (priced at a steep 20 shillings). MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES consists of 32 autobiographical musings -- from memories of Doyle's boyhood, to "Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes," to wartime recollections, to "The Psychic Quest" --... More
With Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in gilt and black, with cover illustration affixed. First Edition of Dunbar's first volume of fiction, preceded by three volumes of verse -- OAK AND IVY (1893), MAJORS AND MINORS (1895) and LYRICS OF... More
Illustrated with Photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. Decorations by Will Jenkins. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. Original light brown cloth decorated in black, red and light blue, with front cover photograph affixed. First Edition so collected with photographs. These black dialect poems had first appeared in some of... More
![YOUNG OFEG'S DITTIES [signed by the author]. George Egerton.](/pictures/thumb/13388.jpg?v=1507051288)
[signed by "George Egerton"] By Ola Hansson. Translated from the Swedish by George Egerton. London: John Lane / Boston: Roberts Bros., 1895. 16 pp ads dated 1895. Original blind-stamped red cloth. First Edition in English, translated by "George Egerton" (pseudonym of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright). This book is often collected... More
In Three Volumes. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. 4 pp undated Vol III ads. Original reddish-brown cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of what must certainly be considered the author's least memorable novel. In a small town in 1832 (just after the passage of the Reform Bill)... More
[the first book of "George Eliot"] Critically Examined by Dr. David Friedrich Strauss. Translated from the Fourth German Edition. In Three Volumes. London: Chapman, Brothers, 1846. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth. First Edition of the first book with which young Marian Evans was involved (as translator). Strauss was a theologian schooled... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. 2 preliminary pp undated ads, plus 4+4 pp terminal ads (the former headed "Autumn Book-List," the latter listing this as one of the "New Books"). Original green cloth. Second American Edition -- barely -- of George Eliot's best-known book, and what is today regarded... More
