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

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.

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

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 a good label on the spine. A good collectable Tauchnitz!

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 authors, escapism) Inquire if you need further information.

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 the days when Conan Doyle was a struggling beginner in literature. Discussing the books on his library shelves, he picks out certain of them, each one of which, bought in student days when he was not affluent, it had cost him a lunch to buy [Bookman, quoted in G&G]. The sixteen illustrations (all are present) are of other writers, such as Scott, Pepys, Hawthorne, Darwin and Stevenson. This is a near-fine copy with scarcely any wear or soil (red spine slightly faded as usual; atypically, there is no foxing on the leaves). Green & Gibson B7a. This copy is signed in full by the author at the top of the title page, "With kind regards | from Arthur Conan Doyle.