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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (World's Best Reading Series)
de Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London, UK: Reader's Digest, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Johnson, David. 318pp. Quarter bound in blue cloth over green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Blue endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Afterword by John L. Cobbs. A large and heavy volume which may incur an additional charge for overseas delivery.
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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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 013263
- Título
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (World's Best Reading Series)
- Autor
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Ilustrador
- Johnson, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Reader's Digest
- Lugar de publicación
- London, UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 1995
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 2.43 libras
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Novels, Series Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
