Guild Publishing, 1975-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 25 to 30 cm tall, Quarto, (4to). Includes The Adventures of The Empty House; The Dancing Men; The Priory School; The Six Napoleons; The Missing Three-Quarter. Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele. Guild publishing edition. Hardcover. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

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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: M Godding Books Ltd (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 270241
Title: Return of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0345327136
ISBN 13: 9780345327130
Publisher: Guild Publishing
Place of Publication: New York Ny
Date Published: 1975-06-01
Size: 25 to 30 cm tall, Quarto, (4to)
Bookseller catalogs: Crime Thrillers Mystery;
X weight: 35 oz

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The business trades in a variety of on-line products. Our business is currently expanding its already large collection of books, and other media. Established in 2005, the business became M Godding Ltd in April 2006. It is a family run business trading from Devizes in Wiltshire, England. It aims for satisfied customers through a friendly and efficient service. Our book shop specialises in rare, older used books including many first editions

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