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DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HOLMES
by Estleman, Loren D
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in very good jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0385152574
- ISBN 13
- 9780385152570
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979. First edition. Fine in very good jacket.. First printing of this thriller, in which Holmes heeds a plea from the Queen to find the killer that eludes Scotland Yard in the notorious Jekyll-Hyde case. This is one of four Sherlock Holmes contributions by award-winning author, Loren D. Estleman. 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter brown cloth, speckled tan paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. Bottom edge speckled red. In original unclipped ($8.95) pictorial dust jacket. Fore-edge machine deckle. 214 pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Jacket with minor edgewear, shallow chipping, faint toning. Book with light rubbing to spine ends and joints. Interior clean and bright.
Synopsis
Accompanied by Dr. Watson, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the wealthy, respectable London doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on the case of the savage murder of Sir Danvers Carew — the blackest mystery of his career! Although Robert Louis Stevenson published his tale of Jekyll and Hyde as fiction, the hideous facts were true, insofar as Stevenson knew them. Here, then, is the entire firsthand account of that devilish crime as recorded by Dr. Watson, with an explanation of why Holmes's personal involvement had to be kept secret — until now...
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46567
- Title
- DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HOLMES
- Author
- Estleman, Loren D
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385152574
- ISBN 13
- 9780385152570
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 20th century,1970s,Mystery,Thriller,Horror & Gothic
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