The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle [set of writings/novels including the Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four].

DOYLE, [Sir] Arthur Conan (1859-1930).

London: Smith Elder, [1903] 1917. [Literature] AUTHOR'S EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, LIMITED to 1000 sets of which this No 904, SIGNED by Conan Doyle in the first volume. 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), illustrated with plates. In fact only 510 sets were issued in 1903, all being bound by Smith Elder. The dormant 490 quires were reissued in and after 1917 by new owners John Murray with fresh Murray title-pages, back-dated to 1903. All volumes in the present set are Second Issue with John Murray imprint. Bound in recent half brown morocco, with red and green labels, matching cloth sides. Contents clean, two volumes with single blue ink stamps 'Salford Public Library', one volume with faint ink inscription (having been washed). The Author considered this edition to be of great importance: he revised parts, and added notes and a number of special introductions, stating: "...I have expended all pains into putting these books into their final form, and so I leave them." Doyle only signed the 1000 copies of the UK edition, and none of the US issue. An attractive set, nicely bound. Item #75248

Green & Gibson [A60].

Price: £3,500.00