Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Description: London, George Newnes, 1894. Cloth. A sought after third edition of this early Sherlock Holmes work, containing a total of twelve stories with the elusive detective. The third edition.Illustrated with in-text illustrations throughout by Sidney Paget.'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' comprises of twelve brilliant Holmes short stories, originally published in 'The Strand Magazine' from July 1891 to June 1892.This thrilling collection includes the earliest Holmes stories, including four stories that Doyle picked as his own favourites. Doyle's overall favourite Holmes story, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', is included in this volume. The collection includes; 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Red-Headed League', 'A Case of Identity', 'Boscombe Valley Mystery', 'Five Orange Pips', 'Man With the Twisted Lip', 'Blue Carbuncle', 'Speckled Band', 'Engineer's Thumb', 'Noble Bachelor', 'Beryl Coronet' and 'Copper Beeches&apos.In the original publisher's cloth binding. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally smart with fading to the spine, slight handling marks, a closed tear to the head of the spine and bumping and wear to the extremities. Offsetting to the endpapers. Internally generally firmly bound, with front hinge slightly strained to the half title. Pages lightly age toned with tidemarks to the tail of the pages, and light spotting. Good . Ill.: Sidney Paget. Good .

Keywords: Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Sidney Paget Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes Sidney Paget


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