Lot 98
  • 98

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Estimate
300 - 400 GBP
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Description

  • Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
  • The Valley of Fear. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915
  • Paper
8vo, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, half-title, frontispiece by Frank Wiles, 6pp. adverts at end, original red cloth, lettered in gilt, red morocco-backed cloth folding box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe

Literature

Green & Gibson A39a

Condition

a good copy
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Catalogue Note

The last full-length Sherlock Holmes adventure. Although this English edition was published some months after the American edition (see lot *******), it was published in far fewer copies than the American one.