Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: New Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Guild Books, London
Date Published: 1946
Description: Fair/No Jacket. Used Previous owner's name on the FEP, notes on first page and pages 164-65, light water stains to top right corner, rips at the corners, damaged spine. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Methuen
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Internally unmarked and solid copy of the appreciation of the life and work of Arthur Conan Doyle. Two saucer marks in paint on the front cover. read more
Description: First edition. 8vo., 193pp., maroon boards. Illustrated. Introduction by Graham Greene. As new in very fine jacket. Review copy, slip taped to front endpaper. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd., London
Date Published: 1943
Description: Fair in Poor jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very nice copy, with aging interiors. Brown boards are bumped and faded, with small piece of dustjacket adhered to back board. Dustjacket is unclipped, but is nearly in two pieces, with material missing on the spine. Previous owner's signature on front free-endpaper. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macdonald and Jane's, London
Date Published: 1977
Description: Reprint. Hardback. Good+/ Dj Good+. 193pp with Introduction by Graham Greene plus illustrations & index. Light brown mark on edge of first few pages, the rest immaculate. Burgandy covers with gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has price intact. " The life story of Arthur Conan Doyle. " read more
Edition: 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen, London
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good Minus. No Jacket. Book Text has underlines, bracket on 1 pg, few tiny, pale foxing dots; sliver of mesh exposed at front hinge; page edges faded; foxing to edges, endpapers; small bookplate on fep; scuffing to extremities. Usual library distinctions. read more
Binding: Hardcover (x-library)
Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Co., New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780800818067ISBN:0800818067
Description: VG- DJ VG- Octavo. Ex-library with usual markings and labels, card pocket rear. Dust jacket in plastic sleeve, glued to end papers. read more
Edition: NA
Publisher: Methuen Press and Co. Ltd, London
Date Published: 1943
Description: 8vo VG/-NDJ Brown board covers. Minor cover wear. Inscribed by former owner fep. Int. good. B&W frontis photo. B&W photos throughout. Great look at the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Lit Biog. 5-106-288. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen, London
Date Published: 1943
Description: Seven Half-tone Plates. Very Good/Fair to Good. 8vo Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve, chunk missing from upper cover, chipped to edges with some loss, unclipped 12s 6d net price on flap. Brown cloth with white titling on spine. No ownership inscription. A few spots. 193 pages clean and tight. More than any writer of his time Conan Doyle represented the average man; and at the present moment, when a new world is about to be created by and for the average man, his character and career are ... read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Methuen & Co., Ltd, London
Date Published: 1943
Description: Fair-Good. No Jacket. 8vo. Pp: viii, 193. Seven b&w photographs. index. Printed on war-time economy paper ( which has not browned, unlike some of the more modern " higher quality" papers). Wear to all extremeties of the binding. Not a collector's item but certainly a good reading or research copy. read more
Description: Used: Good. 1943 first edition hardback pub Methuen; Good; gift note on fep dated 1943; clean insde, page edge mottling; dj is not price-clipped, has general rubbing and wear, small loss of bottom of spine; UK dealer, immediate dispatch. read more
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