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Arthur Conan DOYLE

Round the fire stories

Hardcover (Smith Elder & Co March 15, 1908) , 1st ed edition
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-372 [373-376: ads], inserted frontispiece with illustration by A. Castaigne, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. 6000 copies printed. Collection of seventeen stories, mostly criminous or fantastic, the latter including "The Leather Funnel," an antiquarian ghost story worthy of M. R. James, "Playing With Fire," and "The Brown Hand." Also present are the nearly-Sherlockian stories "The Man With the Watches" and "The Lost Special." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 554. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-73. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Green and Gibson A33a. Wolff 1914.
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Pages
350
Weight
20.8 oz.
Dimensions
7.9 x 6.7 in.

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