Henry Altemus Co - Printemps Series 152

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Printemps Series
1895 - 1895
Varied reprint editions

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152
25
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	Title:	Author:	Year:	Illustrator:
1	Treasure Island	Stevenson, Robert Louis
2	Man in Black	Weyman, Stanley
3	She's All the World to Me	Caine, Hall
4	Love Letters of a Worldly Woman	Clifford, Mrs. W.K.
5	Esther Waters	Moore, George
6	Beyond the City	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
7	Sign of the Four	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
8	Study in Scarlet	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
9	Case of Identity	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
10	Hired Baby and Other Stories	Corelli, Marie
11	Romance of Two Worlds	Corelli, Marie
12	Dolly Dialogues	Hope, Anthony
13	Ships that Pass in the Night	Harraden, Beatrice
14	At the Green Dragon	Harraden, Beatrice
15	Dodo, A Detail of the Day	Benson, E.F.
16	Yellow Aster	Iota
17	Miss Milne and I	Iota
18	Ideala	Grand, Sarah
19	Singularly Deluded	Grand, Sarah
20	Charlotte Temple	Rawson, Mrs.
21	Single Heart and Double Face	Reade, Chas.
22	Vashti and Esther	Anonymous
23	Octoroon	Bradden, Mrs. M.E.
24	Black Beauty	Sewell, Anna
25	Duchess	Duchess, The

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Cloth. Multicolored line drawn picture of a standing woman holding a flower on a green background. This format is constant for the entire series. 6.5 x 4.5

Series Notes:
1. This series was published only in 1895.
2. The book cover illustration was drawn by Archie Gunn. For more information, click here.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Altemus - Altemus published the works of numerous authors whose works they were not authorized to publish. For the most part these were books not covered by the copyright act. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter was probably the most well known of the Altemus unauthorized books. In fairness however, perhaps the most well known and popular books “pirated” were the 4 books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. These were published as part of the Printemps Series.

The Printemps Series was a 25 book series published in its entirety in 1895 and only 1895. The cloth multicolored cover was the same for all this series’ books. It is presumed it was jacketed with a jacket that matched the cover but this has not been verified.

Confirming the scarcity of these books is the fact that the classic bibliography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Green and Gibson only mentions two of the four Doyle books published in the series (The Sign of the Four and Beyond the City). Omitted are A Case of Identity and Other Stories (shown here) and A Study in Scarlet.

These books are without illustrations and are 6.5” x 4.5”.

A Printemps Series advertisement as well as the cover of a Doyle book are seen below.

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