The Sign of the Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

£8,750 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Spencer Blackett, 1892. Sherlock Holmes mystery FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of three issues . Octavo 20 x 13cm , pp. 4 ; 283 1 . With a lithographic frontispiece by Charles Kerr. Finely hand-bound in full red morocco by Conway, decoratively blocked and lettered in black and gilt to the spine and front cover, in the style of the original trade cloth binding. With hand-sewn two-colour endbands, all edges gilt, black endpapers, original First Issue

• Binding: Hardcover

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