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The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1905. [Detective mysteries] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 403 [5]. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen further plates by Paget (complete). Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper. Contents clean, no ink names, minor toning/spotting to edges, cloth remains fresh with a few small rubs to extremities and a small bump at crown. Near fine. A Park Lane mystery - the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair brings Sherlock Holmes back to life and the search for the second most dangerous man in London. The 'Return' contains thirteen Holmes stories, among them some of the most interesting in the whole series. Item #72480
Green and Gibson [A29a]. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
Price: £2,500.00
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