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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Aceptable
- Librería
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
John Murray, 1960. Paperback. Acceptable. 1960. This Edition. 316 pages. Paperback book with illustrated cover. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Minor dog-eared corners. Pulling to covers. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have moderate edge-wear with curling to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some visible tanning to spine and edges. Reading creases to spine. Some scuffing to edges.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1658434493DPB
- Título
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Autor
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- John Murray
- Fecha de publicación
- 1960
Términos de venta
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
