The Sign of the Four
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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DEMING, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Donohue, Henneberry & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. Green cloth boards design and titling stamped in silver on cover and spine. Back board and spine cover water spotted and worn. Front cover wearing at right edge, silver mostly clean and bright. Binding shaken, back gutter taped, stitching and webbing visible between pages 226-227. Name written on first fly with date Jan 24, '90. Pages foxed but unmarked. ; 192 pages .
Synopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second novel starring the great detective Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four weaves together a complex plot involving stolen treasure, a secret pact between guards and prisoners, and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Revealing and humanizing Holmes beyond his portrayal in A Study in Scarlet, this novel from 1890 shows us the detective's drug habits and introduces Watson's wife-to-be, Mary Morstan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Readers' Cove Used Books & Gallery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15202
- Title
- The Sign of the Four
- Author
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Donohue, Henneberry & Co.
- Date Published
- 1898
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.