His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes
by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Book-Of-The-Month Club. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. BOMC. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Cream boards with brown spine imprinted with title and author in copper. Pale green endpapers with design. . 308 pages. A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. ''We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.''Sherlock Holmes''s fearless chronicler Dr Watson once again opens his notebooks to bring to light eight further tales of some of the strangest and most fascinating cases to come before the enquiring mind of London''s most famous detective.These mysteries involve the disappearance of secret plans as well as of a lady of noble standing; the curious circumstances of Wisteria Lodge and of the Devil''s Foot; as well as the story His Last Bow, the last outing of Holmes and Watson on the eve of the First World War. .
Synopsis
His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American, and some British, editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Originally published in 1917, it contains the various Holmes stories published between 1908 and 1913, as well as the one-off title story from 1917.
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- Seller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 609591
- Title
- His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- BOMC
- Publisher
- Book-Of-The-Month Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, TRADITIONAL BRITISH, HISTORICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...