"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

London: John Murray, 1927. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Original red/pink cloth, lettered in gilt. Discreet owner name, some light spotting, covers are particularly clean, gilt to spine a little dulled. Overall a near fine copy. The last of the original Sherlock Holmes books, being twelve cases for the great detective which had been published serially in The Strand Magazine, and collected here with a new preface by the author. Item #62298
Price: £975.00