One of the select band of fabled rarities and therefore a keystone book for any collector of either Detective Fiction, Modern Literature or indeed for any collector of high spots. The first Sherlock Holmes story and the author's first published work. A fine uncut copy with all but two of the advertisement leaves present.
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Handsomely rebound in late nineteenth century style full red polished calf, covers double-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt decorated board edges and turn-ins, cockerel endpapers, all edges uncut. Bound without the leaf of advertisements preceding the title-page and the last leaf of advertisements at the end (pp. 75-78 with very slight fore marginal loss not affecting text. The title-page has been very neatly repaired at the edges and pp. With six line drawings within the text by Charles Doyle, the author's father, on pp.
title blank publisher's preface (with paragraph 2, line 3: youuger) blank contents blank - blank advertisements pp.
Second impression with mis-spelling "youuger" for younger in the second paragraph of the publishers' preface. First edition in book form of the first Sherlock Holmes story (preceded only by the story's appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887). "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose." A Great Detective's Debut, or The Case of The Missing Rare Book DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
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