The Return of Sherlock Holmes [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 26, 27 and 28, complete. Also featuring: Dixon's Return [and] The Ebony Box [and] Eyes of Terror [and] Gervais of Blois [and] The Iron M

by VARIOUS; DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930); JACOBS, W.W. (1863-1943); MASON, A.E.W. (1865-1948); MEADE, L.T. [pseudonym of SMITH, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade] (1844-1914); PEMBERTON, Max (1863-1950); WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946); PAIN, Barry (1864-1928); NESBIT, E

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London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Handsomely bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, twin green title labels lettered in gilt, matching cloth over boards, t.e.g., other edges speckled. Contents a little toned as expected else clean, covers unmarked. Attractively presented in a recent leather binding. A significant collection, containing all thirteen parts of Doyle's 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' and all twelve parts of Nesbit's 'The Phoenix and the Carpet.' Also featuring a selection of short pieces by Jacobs, Mason, Meade, Pemberton, Pain, Nesbit, Maugham, Marsh, and Morrison, and a vision of the tank from Wells more than ten years before it was deployed on the battlefields of France.

• Publisher: London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904
• Binding: unknown

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