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Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Anbieter: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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The British Library, 2011. 8vo., original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine with gilt block on upper board, in slipcase. Mint. First edition, limited edition of 250 numbered copies. The manuscript of Doyle's lost first novel formed part of a collection of private papers that emerged at auction in 2004 and was bought by the British Library for nearly £1m. Written in four black notebooks, the 130-page work has now been transcribed and produced in book form for the first time here. Before there was the astute detective Sherlock Holmes and his capable compatriot Watson, there was the opinionated Everyman, John Smith. In 1883, when he was just 23, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Narrative of John Smith while he was living in Portsmouth and struggling to establish himself as both a doctor and a writer. He had already succeeded in having a number of short stories published in leading magazines of the day, such as Blackwoodâ s, All the Year Round, London Society, and the Boyâ s Own Paper â " but as was the accepted practice of literary journals of the time, his stories had been published anonymously. Thus, Conan Doyle knew that in order to truly establish his name as a writer, he would have to write a novel. That novel â " the first he ever wrote and only now published for the first time â " is The Narrative of John Smith. Many of the themes and stylistic tropes of his later writing, including his first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet (published in 1887) can be clearly seen. More a series of ruminations than a traditional novel, The Narrative of John Smith is of considerable biographical importance and provides an exceptional window into the mind of the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Through John Smith, a 50 year-old man confined to his room by an attack of gout, Conan Doyle sets down his thoughts and opinions on a range of subjects â " including literature, science, religion, war, and education â " with no detectable insecurity or diffidence. Though unfinished, The Narrative of John Smith stands as a fascinating record of the early work of a man on his way to becoming one of the best-known authors in the world.
Verlag: Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1926
Anbieter: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
First edition. 8vo. (2), x, 120 pp. Frontispiece portrait, facsimiles, illustrations from photographs. Chartered as a college for women in 1871, Smith opened its doors to 14 students in 1875 and is now the largest privately endowed college for women in the United States. Very good. Original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. (7214).
Verlag: R. Boulter, London, 1679
Anbieter: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, USA
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First edition. Small quarto, 35 pp. string bound into modern cloth boards. No title page bound in. Binding fine and interior leaves clean and mostly crisp. First edition, issue undetermined.
Verlag: Published by Robert Boulter, London, 1679
Anbieter: Keoghs Books, Skipton, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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, 35 pages with 5 introductory pages First Edition , disbound from larger volume with fragments of leather remaining at spine, top margins to pages have brown stains, pages yellowed, first and last external pages darkened and staring to peel away, good + condition firmly held Folio (over 12 - 15 inches tall) Book ISBN:
Verlag: John F. Feeks, New York, 1848
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 31pp. Woodcut portraits of Rev. and Mrs. Maffitt. Rebound in later cloth with leather spine label. Label rubbed, some toning to the text, and an old paper repair to the title page barely touching the lettering, a very good copy.
Verlag: London: Richard Bentley, 1841, 1841
Anbieter: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
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[Letters] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 37-456; pp.[4]; 367; [1]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author to volume I. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spines and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed, later endpapers. Some spotting but generally clean. cloth a little worn to joints, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped. Very good. Following the first publication of Pepys's Diaries in 1825, Smith went on to publish this interesting collection of letters.
Verlag: 1818§§§§, 1818
Anbieter: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Schweden
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4to. Pp. (viii), lxxxii, 402, 401-498, (2). With one folding map and thirteen engraved plates, of which one is coloured by hand. Uncut copy in original boards, rebacked with original title label preserved. Map and plates somewhat browned but overall a crisp and clean copy. First edition of the official account of the first scientific expedition to the Congo River to find out if there was a connection with the Niger. The expedition was exposed to fatal problems and Captain Tuckey and several others of the crew died within three months of entering the river. Professor Christen Smith from Kew Gardens was one of the naturalists on the voyage. His journal is here included. The extensive introduction is written by John Barrow, who as second secretary to the Admiralty had organised the expedition. "A relatively important scientific travelogue, W.E. Leach having described a new species of Rafinesque's Ocythoë. J. Cranach gave an account of the collected animals at a whole, including 36 bird species" Wood p. 603. Stafleu 15287.Provenance: From the library of the radical reformer Francis Place (1771-1854) with his bookplate. Three related manuscripts tipped onto guards. The first two (comprising four large our four smaller pages) are apparently in the hand of Francis Place, supplying a digest of the contents of the work, and noting observations taken down from the mouth of Mr. Bevans, a young sailor who accompanied Captain Tuckey. The third manuscript (pp. 4) seems to be in Mr. Bevans' hand containing further critical comments on this work.
Verlag: CHIZINE PUBN, 2018
ISBN 10: 1377447278ISBN 13: 9781377447278
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd. [1925]., 1925
Anbieter: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, Vereinigtes Königreich
First British edition. 8vo. 303, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Frontispiece and 87 black and white photographic illustrations, mostly full page. Spine slightly faded, very good. Thomas' account of the first aerial circumnavigation of the world, carried out by a crew of American servicemen flying in four Douglas World Cruisers.
Verlag: London: Macmillan & Co., 1876, 1876
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition of this highly important account of the region compiled from the records kept by the members of the Commission sent to establish the delimitation of the disputed border between Persia and Baluchistan. Bright, clean set retaining the publisher's attractive cloth. Goldsmid, the commissioner, had established a reputation for himself as an officer of considerable intelligence and resource. While serving in the first Opium War (1840-1) as a soldier of the army of the East India Company, Goldsmid had begun studying oriental languages "for which he showed a marked faculty" (ODNB). He was subsequently involved in the settlement of the annexation of Sind; attached to the Turkish contingent in the Crimea, "and during the [Indian] mutiny he distinguished himself in various dangerous missions." In 1861 "he was assigned to the Indo-European Telegraph project, the purpose of which was to construct a telegraph line from British India, along the coast of Persia and what is now Pakistan, then through central Persia and Asia Minor to connect with the European network at Constantinople" (Howgego), in 1865 succeeding Colonel Patrick Stewart, on his death, as director general. Having successfully negotiated the intricacies of the required treaties, he "personally superintended the construction of the telegraph line across the whole extent of Persia" leaving "a characteristically modest account of his adventures" (ODNB). When the government of India's attention was drawn to the "political revolutions in the lands of the immediate neighbours on the West" (Goldsmid's Introduction), his experience of the territory and superior negotiating skills made him the obvious choice as boundary commissioner for the delimitation of this disturbed borderland. "His award was eventually accepted by the shah's government. In the same year Goldsmid was entrusted with the even more delicate task of investigating the claims of Persia and Afghanistan to the province of Sistan. The arbitral award was published at Tehran on 19 August 1872; Persia was confirmed in the possession of Sistan, while a section of the Helmand was left in Afghan territory. The impartiality of the award satisfied neither party, but it had the desired effect of keeping the peace. Goldsmid was created a KCSI in 1871, and received the thanks of the government of India." A significant contributor to the geographical section was Major Oliver B. St John, whose "maps of Persia and Persian Baluchistan. remained for decades the standard authority" and who also assisted W. T. Blanford in the zoological and geological portion of the work, a survey commended by the Encyclopaedia Britannica for its "great care and minuteness." An excellent set of this model regional survey. Anker, Bird Books and Bird Art, 45; Ghani, p153; Howgego, IV, G31; Nissen ZBI 405 for Blanford's Zoology and Geology comprising volume II; Wood, p. 362. Two volumes, octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, titles gilt to spine, bands at head and tail of boards in black on front and in blind on the back, top edge gilt, moderate brown surface-paper endpapers Volume I with steel-engraved frontispiece and chromolithographic plate, 3 folding coloured maps, illustration and genealogical tables to the text; volume II, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, heightened with gum arabic, printed by Mintern Bros. after drawings by Keulemans and 17 other similar plates, birds and mammals, together with 10 other uncoloured plates of reptiles after G. H. Ford, illustrations to the text, folding coloured map. An exceptionally well-preserved set, just a little light shelf-wear, heads and tails of spines a touch crumpled, pale toning to the text, one or two tiny spots of adhesion from the chromos, but hinges uncracked, text-blocks tight; very good.
Verlag: Brooklyn: The New England Society, 1912, 1912
Anbieter: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, USA
8vo. edgeworn and stained cloth covered boards, vol 1, 387 pages; vol 2, black & white map, x, 389 - 852 pages sunned and edgeworn covers else both volumes have lightly toned pages else very good, clean, tight unmarked copies.