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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +
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About This Item
New York: Mclure, Phillips and Co, 1905. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Charles Raymond McCaulay. First American Edition. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth with red text and a silhouette illustration in yellow. Black and white illustrations by Charles Raymond McCaulay. The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. 381pp.<br><br>CONDITION: Covers are heavily rubbed. The spine is sunned and creased. Front hinge is cracked. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are sound. Full refund if not satisfied.
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
- Shelley and Son Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 073738
- Title
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Illustrator
- Charles Raymond McCaulay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Mclure, Phillips and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Terms of Sale
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I offer a full refund if not satisfied as long as the book is returned in the same condition as sent.
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Hendersonville, North Carolina
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We specialize in books by and about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, and their Friends.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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