Conan Doyle's best books :
in three volumes : illustrated : A study in scarlet and other stories.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York : P.F. Collier & Son, Publishers, [ca. 1904]
- Edition
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Sherlock Holmes ed.
- Note
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Forms part of the Core Materials of the C. Frederick Kittle Collection of Doyleana at the Newberry Library.
Contemporary blind-stamped dark gray cloth binding; Steele's portrait of Sherlock Holmes smoking a pipe, stamped in black and gold, and signed [by engraver?] "DD", in center of upper board.
Vol. I, "A study in scarlet and other stories", has frontispiece photographic portrait of Conan Doyle, inscribed "Yours as of yore, Arthur Conan Doyle." Vols. II and III, "The sign of the four and other stories", and "The White Company. Beyond the city", respectively, contain black and orange frontispiece illustrations of Sherlock Holmes by Frederic Dorr Steele, one of which is dated 1903.
Dummy contains frontispieces and title pages in orange and black from each v.; a list of stories contained in the three volumes; and excerpts from two works: p. 137-160 of "A study in scarlet"; and p. 49-72 of "The sign of the four."
Publisher's dummy issued for the Sherlock Holmes ed. of "Conan Doyle's best books", a collection of 24 stories published as a 3 v. set by P.F. Collier & Son around 1904. Included in v. 1 of the set was an introduction by Dr. Harold Emery Jones, "The original of Sherlock Holmes."
- Physical Description
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3, [1] leaves, 137-160, 49-72 p., [3] leaves of plates :
col. ill. ;
21 cm.
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