Set Reminder2024-02-15 12:00:002024-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : A Study in Sherlock, Part II: Including the Collections of Robert Hess and Roy Pilot https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/a-study-in-sherlock-part-ii-including-the-collections-of-robert-hess-and-roy-pilot-21913 We are pleased to announce the second session of Robert Hess's Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collection. High spots will include the only known copy of the first English edition of The Lost World in original dust jacket and Sidney Paget's personal robe.
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[SPIRITUALISM]. A group of 51 titles, including:The Rappers; or, The Mysteries, Fallacies, and Absurdities of Spirit-Rapping, Table-Tipping, and Entrancement. New York: H. Long & Brother, [1854]. 2 engraved frontispieces. Original brown cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt (light splitting at ends). FIRST EDITION. -- MASKELYNE, J.N. and Lionel WEATHERLY. The Supernatural? Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, [1891]. Illustrated. Original brown cloth stamped in black (extremities lightly soiled). FIRST EDITION. -- ROBINSON, William E. Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena. New York City: Munn & Company. 1898. Illustrated. Original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt (some spotting). Provenance: Robert C. Sabin (bookplate); Peter Ten Eyck (stamps). FIRST EDITION. -- ERNST, Bernard M.L. and Hereward CARRINGTON. Houdini and Conan Doyle. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, [1932]. Original gilt-lettered cloth. FIRST EDITION.And many others, including several from the library of spiritualist Joseph A. Sadony (one signed by the detective Robert Pinkerton), all 8vo, all in original cloth, most first editions, condition generally good.