Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Valley Of Fear, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Strand Magazine.

• Sold as a set of 2 volumes (volumes 48-49).
• Arthur Conan Doyle (British).
• London: George Newnes, July 1914 - June 1915.
• Octavo.
• The first issue features a color portrait of Holmes, being a full page color frontispiece of the great detective illustrated by Frank Wiles.
• The serial parts of this novel are illustrated throughout.
• Bound in recent half brown morocco, gilt, with two green title labels, cloth-covered sides, edges trimmed.

The first appearance of the fourth full-length Holmes adventure in its entirety. Complete in nine monthly parts, running September through May.

George Newnes' Strand Magazine (January 1891-March 1950) was the most popular and important British literary periodical of its time, featuring some of the greatest authors of the 19th and 20th centuries including H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie, E. Nesbit, Dorthy L. Sayers, Winston Churchill, Graham Greene, C.S. Lewis, and, of course, their major contributors Arthur Conan Doyle and P.G. Wodehouse.