The hound of the Baskervilles - in one volume (Tauchnitz edition), Collection of British Authors, Vol. 3571
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018059
- Title
- The hound of the Baskervilles - in one volume (Tauchnitz edition), Collection of British Authors, Vol. 3571
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Bernhard Tauchnitz
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Tauchnitz
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Terms of Sale
Godley Books
About the Seller
Godley Books
About Godley Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...