The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
New York: Book-of-the-Month-Club , 1994. Special 1994 book club edition of Sherlock Holmes adventures. Illustrated with sixteen full page black and white plates. Light tan speckled boards with rust brown cloth spine, copper metallic spine lettering and decoration, mint green decorated endpapers, 320 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in fine condition, looks and feels new, with sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not corner-clipped and is also in fine condition. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet . His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur— he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War— became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.
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- Seller
- Resource Books, LLC
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 021012
- Title
- The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Book-of-the-Month-Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- SHERLOCK HOLMES VICTORIAN MYSTERY BAKER STREET DETECTIVE FICTION DR WATSON CLASSIC FICTION BRITISH
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- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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