Contes de nombreuses sources New York vers 1880 1er collections Conan Doyle 41 autres histoires

TALES FROM MANY SOURCES by MANY AUTHORSDoyle, A. (Arthur) Conan, Thomas Hardy, F. Anstey, Wilkie Collins, Juliana H. Ewing, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Reade, William Black, Walter Besant And James Rice, James Payne, Hugh Conway, Etc.

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, c. 1885. 6 volumes.

Description: 6 Quarter bound binding with decorative paper covers and raised bands, gilt decoration and two red pastedown labels on the spine. Gilt top edge. Similar to covers decorated endpapers.

Condition: Very good. Edges and spines show shelf wear and paper covers have spots and fading. (see photos) Pages are lightly brown, otherwise clean and tight to the spines.

Pages: various

Size: 4.75" x 6.75"

Weight: 4 lbs 2 ozs

Very nice complete quarter bound set in very good condition.

A complete set of this anthology consists of 42 stories in six hardcover volumes, some supernatural or fantastic, mostly by British authors (including Thomas Hardy, F. Anstey, Julian Sturgis, RL Stevenson, WE Norris, A.Conan Doyle, among others. The anthology is notable for the inclusion in volume four of Bones the first story by A. Conan Doyle to appear in a book.

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