Final Problem Adventures Sherlock by Doyle Sir (2 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Illustrated by McKowen, Scott illust (illustrator). HARDCOVER. GOOD CONDITION .COVER SOME RUBS, SOLIDLY BOUND, TEXT BLOCK NOT UNDERLINED, NOT MARKED UP. ; GOLD TITELS ON BROWN CLOTH SPINE STRIP.BLUE HARDCOVERS.Purple endpapers .has red silk marker ribbon.; 568+pg pages; A collection of stories about the legendary sleuth., Contains some of his BEST stories,.Holmes turned the literary detective into a household name and are the best-loved of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories.

8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND AND THE APPARENT DEATH OF HOLMES. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. VI, December 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations, although sadly his immortal image of Holmes and Moriarty at Reichenbach does not appear here; it was first published as frontispiece to the 'Memoirs'. Chronologically the last of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the eleventh when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 68; Green & Gibson A14.xi.