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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray,, 1927. In a notably bright example of the jacket First edition in book form, first impression, in an attractive example of the scarce dust jacket. This final collection of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories, all first published in Strand Magazine between 1921 and 1927, is a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, frame blocked in blind on front board. With illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's green paper advertisement leaf dated spring 1927 loosely inserted. Contemporary Swedish newspaper review mounted on rear pastedown, captioned in ink, manuscript gift inscription mounted on front free endpaper. Negligible rubbing to board edges, gilt on spine dulled, cloth fresh, offsetting to endpapers, an excellent copy in jacket, unclipped, small section of loss at head of spine, two closed tears almost the length of spine, nicks to jacket edges, small hole to front flap fold, all subtly reinforced with archival tissue to verso, presenting well. Green and Gibson A46a.
Synopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet . His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur— he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War— became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155056
- Title
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
- Author
- DOYLE, Arthur Conan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: John Murray,
- Date Published
- 1927
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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