The Adventure of the Dying Detective [and] The Horror of the Heights [and] How it Happened [and] The Poison Belt, Chapter 6 [and] To the South Pole: Captain Scott's Own Story [and] Back to Back [and] Keeping Watch [and] The Weaker Vessel [and] Bits of Life [and] The Journal of Aura Lovel [and] Keeping it from Harold [and] The Torch [and] Wet Magic [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 46, complete.

VARIOUS; DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930); SCOTT, Captain R.F. (1868-1912); JACOBS, W.W. (1863-1943); HENRY, O. (1862-1910); PAIN, Barry (1864-1928); WODEHOUSE, P.G. (1881-1975); NESBIT, E. (1858-1924); MARSH, Richard [pseudonym of HELDMANN, Richard Bernard] (1857-1915), et al.

London: George Newnes, July to December 1913. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers, all edges speckled red, white endpapers. Contents clean, a few light reading marks, extremities rubbed, minor discolouration to spine. Very good. An important volume of the Strand Magazine, including this famous Sherlock Holmes short story, which did not appear in a book-form edition for a further four years (His Last Bow, 1917). Also contains excerpts from Captain Scott's diaries, which later appeared in full in 'Scott's Last Expedition' (1913), an early contribution from Wodehouse, and numerous short pieces by various authors. Item #72649

Price: £450.00