The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir, Sidney Paget

$1,500 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: George Newnes Ltd., 1905. Detective short stories FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 20 x 13cm , pp. 8 403 5 . With 16 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by Paget. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fly-leaf cancelled, with some netting exposed to upper hinge. Gently toned throughout, otherwise internally clean. Moderate general wear to cloth, with some minor mould staining to lower joint

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