1891-99 16 vols STRAND Magazine PERIODICAL Newnes Start Price GBP 899.99 Current Price GBP 899.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, July 18, 2008 End Time Monday, July 28, 2008 Location London See more about '1891-99 16 vols STRAND Magazine PERIODICAL Newnes' Description   Click here to see our other books! The Strand Magazine An illustrated monthly Edited by George Newnes Volumes I - XVII January 1891 - June 1899 1891-99 - London - George Newnes Ltd 9" by 6"   DETAILS leather bound copies with gilt titles to spine and cloth covered boards, profusely illustrated throughout by many illustrators including Sidney Paget. This is the first seventeen volumes of this popular magazine each volume contains six monthly issues and runs from January 1891 to June 1899.  The set includes many first appearances of works by Conan Doyle including the 24 Sherlock Holmes cacses in volumes II -VI that were subsequently collected as the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. When the publisher Newnes accepted a Doyle piece for the very first issue in 1891, he did so with the hope that it would provide him access, through Doyle's agent, to another writer in the agent's stable -- Rudyard Kipling -- but then beginning in the very first year, "Sherlock Holmes" took off and THE STRAND became extremely popular. After Doyle apparently killed Holmes off at the end of 1893, Doyle's contributions over the following years (present here) include the Napoleonic tales collected as THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD, the novel RODNEY STONE, the novel THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO and many more. In addition to the many fiction pieces and illustrations, The Strand was also known for some time as the source of ground-breaking brain teasers, under a column called Perplexities, first written by Henry Dudeney. Dudeney introduced many new concepts to the puzzle world, including the first known crossnumber puzzle, in 1926. In that same year, Dudeney produced an article, "The Psychology of Puzzle Crazes," reflecting and analyzing the demand for such works. He edited Perplexities from 1910 until he died in 1930. G.H. Savage became the column's editor, soon to be joined by William Thomas Williams (as W.T. Williams), who, in 1935 authored the best-known crossnumber puzzle of today. The puzzle goes by many names, the original being, The Little Pigley Farm. It has also been known as Dog's Mead, Little Pigley, Little Piggly Farm, Little Pigsby, Pilgrims’ Plot, and Dog Days. The Strand Magazine eventually ceased publication in 1950, forced out of the market by a falling circulation and rising costs, its last editor being Macdonald Hastings, distinguished war correspondent and later TV reporter and contributor to the Eagle boys' comic. CONDITION The bindings are generally firm but the cords are exposed in a few places. Page 523 in volume XV is detached but present.  All covers are attached although the front hinges of Vol I, XI, and the rear hinges of  vol II, III, IV, VI, are detached from the main text block and holding at the opposite hinge only.   Both hinges and spines of volumes V, IX are completely detached from the main text block.  The remaining inner hinges are strianed and holding by the cords only.  A few of the outer hinges are cracked and the front board of volume XVI is particularly loose and holding by one cord only and the front boards of volume VII and X are holding very loosely by the end papers and may fully detach in the post.  There is wear to the extremities including bumping with damage to the corrners and tops and tails of the spines.  The leather to the spines are also rubbed with some damage to the surface of the leather.  The spine on volume XVI is mostly detached and holding at the rear hinge only. The spine on volume XIII is also mostly detached but holding at the rear hinge but the top section of the spine is completely detached but present.  Internally the books are generally bright apart from some spotting, heavy in places, and some handling marks.  There is some doodling to the front pastedown in volume II.  The first and last few pages in volume X are tattered around the edges with some tears, If you want to keep an eye on what is coming up, just add us to your favourites list! 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