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."

1929 Odyssey Of Homer - Art Deco Binding - Color Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth - Palmer Translation

1929

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER
TRANSLATED BY GEORGE HERBERT PALMER

ILLUSTRATED BY N. C. WYETH

*** RARE FIRST EDITION ~ FINE BINDING ~ COLOR PLATES ~ CLASSIC ***

New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1929.

• First Wyeth-illustrated Edition - copyright and title page dates match - no additional printings noted
• measures about 10.5'' x 7.75''
• beautiful original publisher's cloth fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt stamping
• pictorial endpapers
• illustrated with 16 full-page color plates by N. C. Wyeth, including frontispiece
• 314 pages