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[DOYLE, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, association]. A group of 11 pastiches or other works. Including: BANGS, John Kendrick (1862-1922). The Dreamers. A Club. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 8vo. Illustrated with numerous illustrations by Edward Penfield. Publisher’s full brown cloth, front board stamped in black, gilt, and red, spine lettered in gilt (spine a bit toned, some rubbing, mild bumping to boards, light offsetting to endleaves). FIRST EDITION, PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE on the front free endpaper. With the Holmes pastiche, The Mystery of Pinkham’s Diamond Stud on pp. 185-206. -- FARMER, Philip José. The Adventure of the Peerless Peer by John H. Watson, M. D. Boulder: The Aspen Press, 1974. 8vo. Publisher’s full red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; publisher’s printed dust jacket (minor occasional rubbing, some light marginal toning). FIRST EDITION. -- BUTLER, Ellis Parker. Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1918]. 8vo. With frontispiece and 20 illustrations inserted. Publisher’s full yellow cloth, front board and spine stamped in black (spine toned, some rubbing, soiling to boards, a few gutters over-opened); facsimile dust jacket. FIRST EDITION OF THIS QUEEN’S QUORUM TITLE. -- FORD, Corey. Three Rousing Cheers for the Rollo Boys. New York: George H. Doran, [1925]. 8vo. Illustrated throughout by Gluyas Williams. Publisher’s full yellow cloth, front board and spine stamped in black (spine toned and edgeworn, some rubbing, soiling to boards, bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown. FIRST EDITION. -- BRAMAH, Ernest. A Little Flutter. London: Cassell, 1930. 8vo. Publisher’s full green cloth, front board ruled in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (front board with numerous cuts and later color correction, some wear, bumping, soiling to binding, endleaves offset, edge of text block foxed); facsimile dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. And DOYLE, Sir Arthur. 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”. -- DOYLE, Sir Arthur. 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). -- DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. 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. -- DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. 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. -- DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. 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, number 132 of 500 copies.