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The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes

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The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes

by Doyle, Arthur Conan

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The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. 1929 Cheaper Edition, first printing thus. published in 1929, Blue blind-stamped cloth. Toning as is typical of this edition. 320 pages. The RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper is not sunned at spine. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.

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The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. 1929 Cheaper Edition, first printing thus . published in 1929, Blue blind-stamped cloth. Some tanning as is typical of this edition. 320 pages. The RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper is not sunned at spine. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.

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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
Mary Riversong Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
140 DoyleCasebook
Title
The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes
Author
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Illustrator
Abby, J.
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
Good-
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Cheaper Edition
Publisher
John Murray
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1929
Pages
320
Size
4 5/8 X 7
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Cheaper Edition, Casebook, Client, Blanched Soldier, Mazarin Stone, Three Gables, Sussex Vampire, Garridebs, Thor Bridge, The Creeper, The Creeping Man, Rondo Hatton, Lion, Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe, Colourman, Anthology, Detective Fiction, Sherlock Holmes
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Mystery; Books Into Film; Anglophilia; Science Fiction; Art; Victorian Literature; Medical; Social Sciences; PSYCHOLOGY; Law; Anthology; Short Stories; Detective Fiction; 19th Century Literature; Action & Adventure;

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