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A DESERT DRAMA: BEING THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-277 [278: blank] [279-288: ads], original light blue cloth, front stamped in dark blue, brown and green, spine stamped in dark blue, gold, brown and green. First U.S. edition. A party of tourists sailing on the Nile are abducted by Dervish warriors, during captivity they are asked to renounce Christianity. Imperialistic view of North Africa. Adapted into a stage play and filmed twice (1923 & 1932). Green and Gibson, A22c.
THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT AND OTHER STORIES.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers, n.d., [1894]. Octavo, pp. [3-6] 7-232 [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], original dark blue cloth, front and spine stamped in light gray and red, t.e.g., First edition of this collection. One of Rand, McNally's many variant issues of this book; priority not determined. Collects seven stories, several published earlier in the anonymously edited anthology DREAMLAND AND GHOSTLAND (1887) and all published earlier in THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR AND OTHER TALES (1890). This was most widely available collection of Doyle's early fiction for American readers. Rand, McNally printed this collection, 1894-1899, in a number of different series and formats, the first a 25-cent paperbound edition as number 188 of their "Globe Library" series. This printing has "ALPHA LIBRARY" printed at the head of the title page. This printing follows the paperbound edition but this binding not listed Green and Gibson, pp. 608-608, which lists a green cloth binding for "ALPHA LIBRARY." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 551. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Reginald 04493. See Green and Gibson, pp. 608-09.
THE LAND OF MIST.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-285 [286-288: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original decorated yellow-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U. S. edition. The third Professor Challenger novel, in which the scientist investigates and is converted to spiritualism. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-32. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 558. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 263. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Reginald 04495. Green and Gibson A45b.
THE LOST WORLD: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECENT AMAZING ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR GEORGE E. CHALLENGER, LORD JOHN ROXTON, PROFESSOR SUMMERLEE, AND MR. E. D. MALONE OF THE "DAILY GAZETTE." ...
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d., [1912]. Large octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] 9-319 [320: printer's imprint], thirteen illustrations, several in color, pasted to light brown mounts tipped in, original pictorial light blue cloth over heavy bevel-edged boards, front and spine panels lettered in gold, dinosaur footprints stamped in blind on front, spine and rear panels, t.e.g., pictorial endpapers. First edition, large paper copy, first issue. 1000 copies of the Presentation edition were prepared, but the first issue comprised only 190 copies. The remainder were bound later, most issued in 1914 in brown cloth, others distributed sometime later. The first Professor Challenger story, in which the scientist and his exploring party locate a remnant of the prehistoric world on a plateau in South America. Challenger's narrative "remains the most famous of its type and has served as a model since its publication." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-63. "... written as pure entertainment, and as such it is a huge success. It stands at the very end of an era of great adventure stories, and it is the equal of anything else in its genre." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1270-73. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-67; (1981) 1-63; (1987) 1-31; (1995) 1-31; and (2004) II-354. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 43. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 612. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 27. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 264. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. In 333. Bleiler (1987), p. 63. Reginald 04496. Green and Gibson A37c.
THE MARACOT DEEP AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City: Doubleday and Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-307 [308-312: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First U.S. edition. Collects the title novella, "The Story of Spedegues's Dropper," and two Professor Challenger stories, "The Disintegration Machine" and "When the World Screamed."
THE MARACOT DEEP AND OTHER STORIES.
London: John Murray, [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-310 [311-320: ads], original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 7970 copies printed. Collects the title novella, "The Story of Spedegues's Dropper" and two Professor Challenger stories, "The Disintegration Machine" and "When the World Screamed." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-68; (1981) 2-24; (1987) 2-28; and (1995) 2-33. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 618. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 265. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Reginald 04498. Green and Gibson A47a.
THE MARACOT DEEP AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-307 [308-312: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First U.S. edition. Collects the title novella, "The Story of Spedegues's Dropper," and two Professor Challenger stories, "The Disintegration Machine" and "When the World Screamed." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-68; (1981) 2-24; (1987) 2-28; and (1995) 2-33. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 618. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 265. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Reginald 04498. Green and Gibson A47c.
THE POISON BELT.
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-199 [200: blank], sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Harry Rountree, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in black and gold. First edition. The second Professor Challenger story. A catastrophe novel in which the earth passes through a region of "poisoned ether." "...one of Doyle's finest stories..." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 613. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-32. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 266. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 42. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1702-04. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Reginald 04502. Green and Gibson A38a.
THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi [1] 2-274 [275-280: ads], sixteen inserted plates (reproducing portraits of various authors), original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. A series of literary essays based on some of Doyle's favorite books, with reminiscences of his buying them in his impecunious student days, when buying a book meant skipping a lunch. Green and Gibson B7a.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE PUBLISHED APOCRYPHA.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A. CONAN DOYLE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Foreword by Graham Greene. The Definitive Doyle bibliography.
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES... with THE LATER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES... with THE FINAL ADVENTURES...A Definitive Text, corrected and edited by Edgar W. Smith, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett...(3 volumes).
New York: The Heritage Press, 1950 (volume 1), 1952 (volumes 2 & 3). Octavo, illustrated throughout by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others, cloth backed boards. Later editions. In three volumes the entire Sherlock Holmes canon by Doyle. The first volume collects the novels A STUDY IN SCARLET, THE SIGN OF THE FOUR, and the first two story collections, THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. The second volume collects THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. The final volumes collects HIS LAST BOW, THE VALLEY OF FEAR and THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES: ANOTHER ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
London: George Newnes, Limited. 1902. Octavo, original red cloth, front cover stamped in gold and black, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Sherlock Holmes on the Moors. Filmed numerous times.
THE LOST WORLD: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECENT AMAZING ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR GEORGE E. CHALLENGER, LORD JOHN ROXTON, PROFESSOR SUMMERLEE, AND MR. E. D. MALONE OF THE "DAILY GAZETTE".
New York: Hodder and Stoughton/George H. Doran Company, 1912. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The first of the Professor Challenger stories. Illustrations by Joseph Clement Coll and five by Maple White. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-31. Bleiler: Science Fiction: The Early Years, #612. Cawthorn & Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #27.