Monday, December 9, 2013

1896 My Friend the Murderer by Arthur Conan Doyle - Illustrated

CA. 1896

MY FRIEND THE MURDERER BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

ILLUSTRATED

New York: H. M. Caldwell, no date, circa 1896.

• measures about 6.5'' x 4.5''
• lovely publisher's decorative cloth fine binding
• embossed silver gilt and red stamping
• frontispiece
• illustrated with full-page plates
• 187 pages

1896 PTLA: "Small duodecimo, with illustrations in water-color tints. The new shaped handy volume. All of volumes in this New Series of Handy Volume Classics are printed on extra fine laid paper, with text illustrations or full-page half-tone illustrations in water-color tints. Each volume has in addition a handsome illuminated title page and silk ribbon bookmark. Uniformly bound in Bancroft linen, stamped in silver and various colored inks, from a new and original design."




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