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A Study in Scarlet.
London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1893. [Detective novel] THIRD EDITION, reprinted. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[xx]; 224; [24] advertisements. With several black and white in-text and full-page illustrations. Bound in publisher's quarter scarlet cloth, gilt titles to spine, beige buckram boards titled in red, floral patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, housed in an elegant leather-spined slipcase lettered in gilt to the spine. Contents clean, no inscriptions, hinges intact. Covers are clean and bright and the red cloth spine remains fresh. There is minor wear to the extremities. A particularly crisp example, rarely found in this condition. A Study In Scarlet (1888) was the first Sherlock Holmes novel, and features the initial meeting and debut case for the great amateur detective Sherlock Holmes with his new-found colleague; the narrator Dr. John Watson. Item #71816
Green and Gibson [A1]. Listed in '100 Books That Shaped World History' [Raftery, 2002].
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