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The Valley of Fear

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The Valley of Fear

by Doyle, Arthur Conan

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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Keller, Arthur I.. Precedes the British edition. 320pp. Red cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Frontispiece and six plates by Arthur I. Keller. Spine panel a bit faded, light wear to spine ends and corner tips, tiny tear to head of spine, four small spots to front endpapers, short tear on one of the leaves. A very good copy. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Green and Gibson A39c.; Octavo.

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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
Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
30347
Title
The Valley of Fear
Author
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Illustrator
Illustrated by Keller, Arthur I.
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
George H. Doran Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1915
Keywords
MYSTERY, SHERLOCK HOLMES, DETECTION, HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE, CLASSICS
Bookseller catalogs
Mysteries and Thrillers;

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About Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare

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