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The Sign of Four
de Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good+/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. [5], 2-283pp, [1]. Original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine, title and author in gilt to upper cover, black blocked border to covers with fleuron corner pieces. Spine slightly darkened and leaned, small hole repaired at head of spine (near the 'f' of 'of' in the title, minor rubbing to spine ends and extremities, corners lightly bumped. Paper inner joints slightly split, a couple of pages a little carelessly opened, small tear to fore edge margin of pages 199/200, one or two light spots, but generally fairly bright and clean. Frontispiece, by Charles Henry Malcolm Kerr (see Houfe, page 196), lacks the tissue guard, and without publisher's catalogue to rear found in some copies. W.H. Smith and Son blind stamp to ffep, with armorial bookplate of Gloucester to front pastedown. The first issue cloth with 'Spencer Blackett's Standard Library' to foot of spine, with the misprints '13' on the contents page and 'w shed' on page 56. Now housed in a cloth drop back box made by Temple Bookbinders, with author and title to spine and upper cover. The second Sherlock Holmes novel, uncommonly bright and in the first issue cloth. 'The Sign of Four' was written as a result of a dinner at the Langham Hotel, where Lippincott's agent J.M Stoddart had dinner with Conan Doyle, an Irish M.P. named Gill, and a certain Oscar Wilde, who also agreed to write for the magazine, and produced 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (see Green and Gibson, 'A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle', page 40). Green and Gibson A7 . First Edition. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Kerr, Charles. 8vo.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 001501
- Título
- The Sign of Four
- Autor
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Ilustrador
- Kerr, Charles
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Spencer Blackett
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1890
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Modern Firsts, Detetctive Fiction, Sherlock, Sign of Four
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- First Edition
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