The Return Of Sherlock Holmes
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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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THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
by DOYLE. ARTHUR CONAN
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George Newnes, Limited. London. 1905. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). viii, 404, 4pp of publishers adverts at rear. Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Some light spotting to a few pages but overall a very good copy in recent leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Asprey. Half dark blue morocco, five raised bands to… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: George Newnes, 1905. ‘Holmes!' I cried. ‘Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive?
Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'"
the Third Collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories
DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1905.
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George Newnes, Limited, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). MCMV (1905) stated on title page. Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. In original cloth. Previous owner's writing on front free end paper: newspaper clip of Holmes' sitting room attached to front free end paper; two more newspaper clips attached… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Pocket Penguin classics
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New York: McClure, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 1st edition of the sixth Sherlock Holmes, preceding the London edition. Original cloth in the 1st issue, pictorial binding, The color is flaked in a few places but less so than usually seen, some rubbing and soiling, inner paper hinges strengthened, but otherwise very good. Item Price
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London: George Newnes LTD, 1905. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Sidney Paget. The first edition of Sherlock Holmes' brilliant return, a collection of thirteen thrilling short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, complete with the original illustrations. The first edition, first impression.Four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Half-title is present with adverts to the reverse.Illustrated… Read more about this item Item Price
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The return of Sherlock Holmes - illustrations by David Johnson, afterword by John L. Cobbs
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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London : Reader's Digest, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 318 p. Subjects; Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction. Detective and mystery stories, English. Private investigators -- England -- Fiction. Item Price
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Classic Crime)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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London, England: Penguin Books, 1982. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Penguin Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean cover with a touch of corner wear, remainder mark on bottom edge, pages quite clean, no markings, no creases. Soundly bound with all pages intact. Stories by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: McClure, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition, preceding the London edition. Original cloth. Near fine with some rubbing to the extremities. This copy is in what McClure calls the "special edition" binding, that is different than the 1st issue binding but more common and in no other way special, Bookplate of Adrian Goldstone. Item Price
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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New York: Schocken Books, 1975. Softcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint. Trade paperback. Very good with a darkened spine, some age-toning on the covers. A facsimile of the stories as they were first published in The Strand Magazine, London, with Sidney Paget's original illustrations. Item Price
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London: George Newnes, Limited, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo Dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine and upper board. A fine copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. Bookplate of former owner on front pastedown. With 'George Newnes Limited' at base of spine.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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Universal Sales Marketing. Very Good. 240mm / 158mm. Hardcover. 1995. 320 pages. <br>After Sherlock Holmes's apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach falls, t he great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr W atson. This is the second of three volumes of The Complete Sherlo ck Holmes. . Item Price
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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Return of Sherlock Holmes
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Penguin Books, June 1982. Reprint. Paper Back . Good. The companion to the PBS series of the same name, which will be broadcast in seven episodes starting February 5, 1987, and continuing through March 19 on 'Mystery!' Mass market paperback with a name stamped on top textblock edge and on fore-edge. Shelfworn. [323 pages] Item Price
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Return of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Hardback Library)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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London: George Newnes Ltd., 1905. Bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Root & Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece, illustrated by Sidney Paget. In near fine condition. The fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes became immensely popular with his first… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905 First edition. "Published February, 1905" on copyright page. 13 full page drawing illustrations by Charles Raymond Macauley on slick paper. Frontispiece with loose tissue. 8vo. Black cloth stamped in yellow and red. Sillhouette against window pictorial on front cover. 381 pages. 13 chapters. Spine edges and ends well worn with losses. Corners and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Return of Sherlock Holmes
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New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Macauley, Charles Raymond. Precedes the British edition. 381pp. Black ribbed cloth stamped in gold and red on the front panel, spine lettered in yellow. Frontispiece and twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Charles Raymond Macauley. Includes thirteen stories. The lettering on the front cover and at the… Read more about this item Item Price
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