Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

8vo, 2 volumes, number 87 of 147 numbered copies bearing a facsimile signature of the author, original morocco-backed grey cloth, dark blue endpapers, spines gilt in compartments, top edges blue, slipcase with label, spines slightly faded, otherwise a fine set.

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"The Complete Sherlock Holmes is the only complete, definitive edition of these famous stories. Originally published in nine separate books, containing thirteen hundred pages of the best detective fiction in English literature, they are the authoritative text of every Sherlock Holmes story ever written" ('A Note to the Reader').