Through the Magic Door

1907. [signed by Doyle] With Sixteen Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with cover vignette in gilt. First Edition of this group of literary essays, written as wanderings about the library in the Doyle home (which is shown in the frontispiece photograph). "Through the Magic Door" gives you glimpses of… Read more about this item

Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907. First Tauchnitz Edition. Hardcover in tan cloth. Very good/N/A. From the Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edition, Volume 4008, in one volume. Pages lightly toned. Binding tight. Some marks and stains to covers, and a slight separation at the tail of the front cover. Corners bumped. Book is square and straight with… Read more about this item

Toronto: William Briggs, [1908]. First Canadian edition. Cloth. Good. vi, 274 p. 20 cm. 16 b&w plates. Black cloth hardcover with gold impressing. Rear hinge cracked, spine a bit faded with chipped ends, corners a little bumped. Ink signature and label on front free endpaper. Foxing. Commentary on Carlyle, Macaulay, Scott, Johnson, Gibbon, Pepys, Hawthorne, Richardson, Darwin… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1908. Softcover. Very good. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has rubbing and mild soil to wraps, spine creased, chipping to spine head, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, edges shabby.

The McClure Company. Collectible - Good. New York: The McClure Company, 1908. 1st American edition. Sm 8vo hardcover. 276pp. Good book. The upper and lower portion of the spine and as well as the area around each joint is discolored. The spine is bumped causing a slight slant. The interior is clean and VG. (essay, books, reading, great… Read more about this item

The McClure Co., 1908. hardback. good condition with some wear and bumping -there is bookplate form a "Readers' Club" on the front end page

New York: McClure. 1908. VERY GOOD 8vo in navy blue cloth. 276pp. PO name on FFEP. OFFICE PHONE. .

1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Softcover, 1st edn thus as Continental 1st edn, slight soiling to whitish covers else VG. Talks about books, 265pps + index, list of publsiher books in rear.

Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover, #4008 in Tauchnitz collection, slightly soiled covers else VG, small 8vo, lists #4098-99 on rear panel. This marked the 25th volume by Doyle included in the Tauchnitz series, a very popular author in Europe at the time.

doubleday page, 1923. very good blue binding, some spine fading