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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
$1,520.16$1,368.14
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About This Item
London: George Newnes LTD, 1905. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Sidney Paget. The first edition of Sherlock Holmes' brilliant return, a collection of thirteen thrilling short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, complete with the original illustrations. The first edition, first impression.Four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Half-title is present with adverts to the reverse.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and fifteen plates.Collated, complete.The third brilliant collection of Sherlock Holmes stories; this collection picks up after the 1893 collection 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', which saw Holmes fall to his death in 'The Final Problem'. As Doyle was under a lot of pressure from the public to revive the beloved detective.'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' comprises of thirteen stories, including the adventure of 'The Empty House', 'The Norwood Builder', 'The Dancing Men', 'The Solitary Cyclist', 'The Priory School', 'Black Peter', 'Charles Augustus Milverton', 'The Six Napoleons', 'The Three Students', 'The Golden Pince-Nez', 'The Missing Three-Quarter', 'The Abbey Grange', and 'The Second Stain'.Complete with the original illustrations by Sidney PagetPrior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Rear joint is cracked, exposing the webbing of the binding. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, with a small amount of loss and lifting to the head of the spine. Light rubbing to the front joint, with a small crack to the tail. A few minor marks to the boards and rubbing to the extremities. Some spots to the fore edge. Front hinge is starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Good
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
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 838P9
- Title
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Illustrator
- Sidney Paget
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Newnes LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes sherlock holmes sidney paget detective sherlock holmes watson
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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