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The Valley of Fear
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
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About This Item
UK: Smith, Elder & Co, 1915. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle First Edition Smith, Elder & Co 1915. London. No name inscriptions or any signs of previous ownership. No loose or damaged pages, contents unblemished throughout. Original publisher's cloth corners are bright and have no darkening to spine or dulling to gilt lettering. A VG+ copy.
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
- Brought to Book Ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007189
- Title
- The Valley of Fear
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Co
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1915
- Weight
- 1.43 lbs
- Keywords
- The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle First Edition Smith, Elder & Co 1915
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