The Valley Of Fear
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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UK: Smith, Elder & Co, 1915. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle First Edition Smith, Elder & Co 1915. London. No name inscriptions or any signs of previous ownership. No loose or damaged pages, contents unblemished throughout. Original publisher's cloth corners are bright and have no darkening to spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Keller, Arthur I.. Precedes the British edition. 320pp. Red cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Frontispiece and six plates by Arthur I. Keller. Spine panel a bit faded, light wear to spine ends and corner tips, tiny tear to head of spine, four… Read more about this item Item Price
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Doran, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Doyle incorporates a dual narrative structure, as the plot transitions from the present-day investigation by Holmes and Watson to a historical account of the events that led to the central crime. The additional space afforded by a full novel, gave Doyle the opportunity to change and blend genres within… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Keller, Arthur I.. Precedes the British edition. 320pp. Red cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Frontispiece and six plates by Arthur I. Keller. Spine panel a bit faded but lettering still perfectly readable, some wear to spine ends and corner tips, bruised upper… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. [1920?] Reprint. Original tan cloth. 320 p.p. Previous booksellers stamp at foot of front free endpaper. Light rubbing to boards with some staining along joints and spine ends. Some dotted pen markings to endpapers and upper margin of title-page. Otherwise a good copy of this classic Holmes mystery… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Valley of Fear.
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London: John Murray & Jonathan Cape. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0719529492 . First edition. (Thus) Very close to fine in fine dust jacket. (Hint of faint foxing at blue top edge. ) From the library of noted spy novelist Derek Marlowe with his printed bookplate a-fixed to front end-paper. ;… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Berkley Books, 1983. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 175pp, (1p ad). Near fine. Later (21st!) printing of this Sherlock tale, tight and attractive. From the collection of published Sherlock buff and noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010). Item Price
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London: G. Bell & Sons, LTD. Good with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition. Hard Cover. Bell's Indian and Colonial Library, [viii], Frontispiece, 306 pages + 8 pages of adverts + a further 16 pages of publishers adverts dated April, 1915. Original red cloth boards with title blind stamped on front cover and in gilt on spine,… Read more about this item Item Price
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