A Study in Scarlet. The First Book about Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir, George Wylie Hutchinson

£150 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1911. Detective Fiction VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp.xx; 224; 16 . With four half-tone plates including a frontispiece, ten full-page and other frequent in-text illustrations, all by George Hutchinson. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decorative blind stamping to spine and upper board. No ink inscriptions. Thick, heavy paper is toned/spotted as usual, endpapers browned, dampmark to half-title. Covers are

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