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— Bertolt Brecht

London: John Murray, 1927. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Contents clean, front cover with a little discolouration, spine lightly sunned, gilt dulled; very good. 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 #64767
De Waal [573] Green and Gibson p198 [A46a], also p.575.
Price: £595.00
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