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The Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0706415663
- ISBN 13
- 9780706415667
- Seller
-
Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London : Octopus Books, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. large Octavo. Type: Book 1st printing. Beautifully fully bound in dark green Morocco with gilt and green titles and decoration to spine and upper board. AEG. Marbled end papers. Treasury in World Masterpieces Series. Comprised of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Return of Sherlock Holmes; A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four; The Hound of the Baskervilles. Prior owner name to FEP.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Strawberry Hill Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033307
- Title
- The Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0706415663
- ISBN 13
- 9780706415667
- Publisher
- Octopus Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- large Octavo
- X weight
- 0 oz
Terms of Sale
Strawberry Hill Books
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About the Seller
Strawberry Hill Books
Biblio member since 2010
Rotherfield, East Sussex
About Strawberry Hill Books
Strawberry Hill Books is a UK based collectable and antiquarian book dealer with an inventory of 10K titles. Specialist areas include Fiction, Topography, History, Art and Exploration. We supply worldwide and all shipments are tracked.
Glossary
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...