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The Hound of the Baskervilles. (Bantam Review Copy)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Schenectady, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books, 1949. First Edition. Paperback. Bantam review copy. Bantam Book 366. A mystery featuring Sherlock Holmes. Publisher's slip with stamped date of publication laid in. A touch of wear to edges. A fine, almost pristine, scarce review copy. Cover art by William Shoyer. ; Small octavo.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32150
- Title
- The Hound of the Baskervilles. (Bantam Review Copy)
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- MYSTERIES, SHERLOCK HOLMES, CLASSICS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries and Thrillers;
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About the Seller
Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
Biblio member since 2008
Schenectady, New York
About Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Publisher's Slip
- A piece of paper from the publisher included in an advance review copy or an uncorrected proof copy of a book. A publisher's...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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