Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

circa 28,5 x 22 cm., 52 leaves, some in red, reproduced as a typescript. Original yellow wrapper Legendary catalogue with 156 items often with commentary. Contains several original manuscripts ("most of them are bound in white vellum, signed by Doyle, and all are written in his beautiful clear hand with very few corrections?"), rare first editions anhd works by followers or parodists as well as curious related works like: An inquiry into the nature of the ashes of various tobaccos, Tibet, privately printed, 1893. - The comments and descriptions are by Vincent Starrett and David Randall.

Bemerkung:

- Old owner s inscription inside of wrapper (J. B. Austin 1943), wrapper with tears to spine, traces of use but inside clean - rare original edition.