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The Valley of Fear
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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1914 Sherlock Holmes 1ed Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle Illustrated Mystery
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth!"
– Sherlock Holmes
First appearing in 1887, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the greatest and most well-known fictional detective. This first edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Valley of Fear" is the fourth and final book of Doyle's Sherlock series published 3 months prior to the British edition.
This 1914 true first edition includes seven full-page illustrations by Arthur I. Keller!
Item number: #30771
Price: $599
DOYLE, Arthur Conan
The Valley of Fear
New York: George H. Doran Company, ©1914. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 320
o 7 illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Red cloth
o Facsimile dust jacket
· Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 14cm)
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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
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30771
- Title
- The Valley of Fear
- Author
- DOYLE, Arthur Conan
- Illustrator
- Arthur I. Keller!
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1914 Sherlock Holmes 1ed Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle Illustrated Mystery rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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