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The hound of the Baskervilles - in one volume (Tauchnitz edition), Collection of British Authors, Vol. 3571
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair
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About This Item
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902. Mark across half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Creasing to covers. Clean very tight pages with dusty cover and page edges, lower part of spine strip missing, and light creasing to corners. Untrimmed page edges. 32 pages adverts + 270pp. Publication of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle in Strand Magazine was completed in April 1902. This Tauchnitz Edition was published on 1st May 1902. As such it may precede the true British First Edition, also published in 1902. States 'Copyright Edition' on title page. Scarce.. Soft Cover. Fair. 6.5 x 4.75 inches.
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.
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- Bookseller
- Godley Books
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- 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
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