The Valley Of Fear - A New Sherlock Holmes Story [in] The Strand Magazine. Vols. 48-49

by [DOYLE, Arthur Conan]

$1,209 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: George Newnes, July 1914 - June 1915. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE of the fourth full-length Holmes adventure in its entirety. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 17cm). Complete in nine monthly parts, running September through May. The first issue features a colour portrait of Holmes, being a full page colour frontispiece of the great detective illustrated by Frank Wiles. The serial parts of this novel are illustrated throughout- the first edition in book form features only a solitary frontispiece illustration. Bound in recent half brown morocco, gilt, with two green title labels, cloth-covered sides, edges trimmed. Contents clean, gentle toning to the two general title pages (as usual, being supplied on slightly different paper stock) exteriors as new. A fine set. 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. Green and Gibson A39, DeWaal. BMC No.261, p.62-73 'Collecting The Strand'.

• Publisher: London: George Newnes, July 1914 - June 1915
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.