The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel

by DOYLE, [Sir] Arthur Conan (1859-1930), [KELLER, Arthur, illustrator]

$1,013 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1914. [Detective fiction] TRUE FIRST EDITION, prior to UK first printing, which was not illustrated. Post octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. With seven full-page illustrations by Arthur I. Keller, including the frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt to spine and upper. Housed in an attractive marbled-paper covered slipcase. Contents and edges clean, no inscriptions, stylish bookplate to pastedown, covers are crisp and fresh. An unusually bright copy. The fourth and final full-length Sherlock Holmes novel, being a retrospective or 'flashback' adventure set in Pennsylvania, 1888. 'The Valley of Fear' is also notable for the involvement of Holmes' arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty. Green and Gibson [A39].

• Publisher: New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1914
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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