The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Definitive Text by Doyle, Arthur Conan - 1950

New York: The Heritage Press, 1950. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Thick 8vo. No Dust Jacket, As Issued. xxiii (ix), 764 pp, a note about the cover, Introduction by Vincent Scarrett, notes on the collation, by the editor, A Study in Carlet; The Sign of the Four; The Twelve Adventures Originally Published as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"; The Twelve Adventures Originally Published as "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". Limited Club Edition, 1950. Corrected and Edited by Edgar W. Smith, with an Introduction by Vincent Starrett, and illustrated with a selective collation of the original illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others. In the Original Near Fine Slipcase with only the faintest edge wear, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown decorative paper-covered with dark brown cloth backstrip, oval laid-in cameo portrait of Holmes with pipe on front board, white initials of Victoria Regina in 'bullet-pocks' to front and rear boards, gilt lettering to spine, and dark brown speckled text block edges.