KINGSTON, Keedy.
The Great Pimlico Mystery. A Well-Kept Secret Disclosed.
London, Diprose & Bateman, [1896].
The collation corresponds with that recorded in Dorothy Glover & Graham Greene's Victorian Detective Fiction, but it is unclear whether there was a matching blue paper lower wrapper.
First edition; 8vo; xylographic device, initials, head- & tail-pieces, 2pp. advertisements, small later ownership label to verso of title, some foxing to early pages and occasionally elsewhere; publisher's pale blue upper wrapper, lacking spine (replaced in plain paper) [?]and lower wrapper; housed in later card chemise and cloth slip-case.
Glover & Greene 294; not in Ellery Queen.
Stock code 102555
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The Great Pimlico Mystery.
MILTON, John; PHILIPS, Edward (translator).
Letters of State,
1694.
The first edition in English of Milton's Literare Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, translated by his nephew Edward Phillips, and containing three previously unpublished preliminary sonnets
£1,850.00
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables.
1897.
A handsome copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
£285.00
STOKER, Bram.
Dracula.
1897.
First edition of Bram Stoker's vampire classic, a genre-defining masterpiece inspiring numerous reprints, variations, pastiches, stage & screen versions
£17,500.00
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [with] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
1892; 1894.
A delightfully illustrated two volume set of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
£3,900.00
