DOYLE, Arthur (1859-1930). A group of 5 titles, including:
The Great Boer War. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1901]. Small 8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Doyle and 7 plates inserted throughout. Publisher’s full blue cloth, front board decoratively paneled in black, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, decorative endleaves (some rubbing to edges, some soiling to boards, endleaves offset, several gutters starting, some occasional soiling in text). FIRST EDITION, THE SUPPRESSED FIRST ISSUE, WITH THE SUPPRESSED FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT, AND WITHOUT THE LATER INSERTED MAP. Doyle was angry that the frontispiece captioned him as “Sir”. -- The Man from Archangel. London: F. Tennyson Neely, [n.d., 1899]. 8vo. Publisher’s full red cloth, front board and spine stamped in black and silver (spine sunned, binding worn, soiled, front hinge cracked, text toned, a few gutters over-opened). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Provenance: From the collection of Doyle scholar, Dr. C. Frederick Kittle, with his bookplate (a copy of Kittle’s essay, Arthur Conan Doyle, reprinted from the Journal of the Kansas Medical Society is included). -- The Doings of Raffles Haw. Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, [1890]. 8vo. Publisher’s full red cloth, spine stamped in red (spine soiled and worn, bindings somewhat worn and soiled, text toned, brittle, hinges cracked with later tape repairs). POSSIBLE PIRACY. Other stories included are: The Red Headed League and The Boscombe Valley Mystery. -- The Guards Came Through and Other Poems. New York: George H. Doran, [1920]. Small 8vo. Publisher’s plain tan boards, printed paper labels on front board and spine (some toning, rubbing, occasional soiling to binding, light toning, soiling to text); publisher’s printed dust jacket (spine toned and rubbed, some rubbing, soiling to panels, a few shallow chips and short tears). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- A Study in Scarlet. London: Ward, Lock, n.d. [ca. 2010s]. Small 8vo. Illustrated by Charles Altamont Doyle (A. C. Doyle’s father). Publisher’s printed wrappers, full red dust jacket, stamped in gilt, slipcase. FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE WARD, LOCK EDITION OF 1888, #132 OF 500 COPIES.