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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. 397 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, this including the Blanched Soldier, and two others are written in the third person. In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. Robert Mathias (Cover Design); John Atkinson Grimshaw (Cover Illustration) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. The book is about him being and decent man who saw wrong and tried to correct it.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Very small hole on back cover, copyright 1929, revised reprint 1954, this printing 1957 which is small date printed on the back cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. 1968 First Edition which is very scarce. The book is in EXCELLENT like new condition. Someone really took care of this 1960's thriller. Pictorial boards on this hard cover. Interior is immaculate. Highly collectible. (BR) Shelf 340.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original purple cloth over paper covered upper board, with metallic purple titles to the spine and illustration to the upper board, in slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Harry Campbell with a frontispiece and six further full page colour plates, including one double spread. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase. A collection of 12 weird tales selected by the Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael Dirda. Comprising, 'Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter' by Sheridan Le Fanu; 'Amour Dure' by Vernon Lee; 'The Little Room' by Madeline Yale Wynne; 'Novel of the Black Seal' by Arthur Machen; 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood; 'Casting the Runes' by M. R. James; 'The Hall Bedroom' by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Daemon Lover' by Shirley Jackson; 'Sticks' by Karl Edward Wagner; 'The Hospice' by Robert Aickman; 'The White Hands' by Mark Samuels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…