Letters to the Press - The Submarine Menace; Houdini & the Spirits; Mr Shaw & the Titanic; Black-list the Tax Shirkers; Merits of Baseball; To Honour Dorando; The Prince Henry Tour; Our Olympic Failure; Divorce & the Bishops; Cycle of Insanity; ++++
by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan; edited & intro by John Michael Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0877451370
- ISBN 13
- 9780877451372
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Univ of Iowa Press, 1986. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Blue cloth with silver lettering and design, 377 pages, Very Good Plus condition with minor shelf wear, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with the acetate starting to wrinkle (as in most copies you will see) & minor edge wear, now in Mylar. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered as the creator of Sherlock Holmes & as a storyteller of the first rank. But his interests went far wider. These letters show that Doyle was an energetic campaigner against injustice, as in his handling of the George Edalji & Oscar Slater cases, as well as being a well informed polemicist on national & international issues." Contents include: Intro by John Michael Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green / Letters: 1879 - 1890; 1890 - 1914; 1914 - 1918; 1918 - 1930 / Notes / Categorical index / index. Check out the scans. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010261
- Title
- Letters to the Press - The Submarine Menace; Houdini & the Spirits; Mr Shaw & the Titanic; Black-list the Tax Shirkers; Merits of Baseball; To Honour Dorando; The Prince Henry Tour; Our Olympic Failure; Divorce & the Bishops; Cycle of Insanity; ++++
- Author
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan; edited & intro by John Michael Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0877451370
- ISBN 13
- 9780877451372
- Publisher
- Univ of Iowa Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan; edited & intro by John Michael Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green Letters to the Press - The Submarine Menace; Houdini & the Spirits; Mr Shaw & the Titanic; Black-list the Tax Shirkers; Merits of Baseball; To Honour
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sherlock Holmes; Reference;
- Size
- 8vo
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