THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

by John Dickson Carr

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1949 . Octavo, pp. i-iv v-vi vii-viii ix-x xi-xii 1-304 305: colophon 306-308: blank , illustrations, publisher's brown cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. A splendid biography, at once sympathetic and detached, skillful and thorough, as well as strong on the natural gifts Doyle possessed for detective investigation and its transfusion into fictional

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