Item #19968 THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR. Arthur Conan Doyle.

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. Mild age-darkening to spine panel, spine ends rubbed, a bright, nearly fine copy. (19968). Item #19968

Price: $250.00

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