Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
by Smith, Edgar W. (Ed.); Untermeyer, Lois (Intro.); Brazelton, Julian (Illust.); Steele, Frederic Dorr (Illust.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/fair
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/fair. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 7/8". xv, [v], 312pp. First printing. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket, with substantial tears and chipping to extremities, spine bleached, and dust soiling. Red cloth over boards, with Sherlock Holmes profile stamped in black to upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, wth gentle bumping to extremities. Map endpapers: "The World Strictly According to Doyle." Rear hinge starting to crack, with webbing visible. Binding remains quite sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A worn but still quite handsome first printing of this collection of Sherlockiana by Heywood Broun, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Rex Stout, Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Boucher, Dr. George F. McCleary, Vincent Starrett, Howard Haycraft, A. Conan Doyle, Howard Collins, Belden Wigglesworth, Fletcher Pratt, W. S. Hall, H. W. Bell, Charles Honce, Rufus S. Tucker, Dr. Charles S. Goodman, Logan Clendening, P. M. Stone, E. E. Kellett, James Kedde, Dr. Reginald Fitz, Robert Keth Leavitt, Carolyn Wells, Helene Yuhasova, Harvey Officer, Dr. Julian Wolff, "Evoe," and Felix Morley.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3634
- Title
- Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Smith, Edgar W. (Ed.); Untermeyer, Lois (Intro.); Brazelton, Julian (Illust.); Steele, Frederic Dorr (Illust.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Sherlock Holmes mystery detective
Terms of Sale
Underground Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- First Edition
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