Arthur Conan Doyle – The Valley of Fear – First UK Edition 1915
£975.00
8vo, pp. 306 – advertisements at rear. Original red boards, lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. Frontispiece by Frank Wiles. Offsetting to endpapers, and some foxing to the preliminaries, title page and early pages of text. Corners bumped, some marking to boards, spine faded and with some wear to spine ends and a little fraying. Binding a little shaken, but holding firm – small name.
First UK edition, published by Smith Elder three months earlier in the US. The final Sherlock Holmes novel.
Frank Wiles, who provides the frontispiece, drew many of the illustrations for Holmes’s appearances in The Strand magazine. Doyle thought Wiles came closest to the Holmes likeness he had always imagined — which, if Wiles’ work here is any guide, was very much like Basil Rathbone.
A very presentable copy.
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8vo, pp. 306 – advertisements at rear. Original red boards, lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. Frontispiece by Frank Wiles. Offsetting to endpapers, and some foxing to the preliminaries, title page and early pages of text. Corners bumped, some marking to boards, spine faded and with some wear to spine ends and a little fraying. Binding a little shaken, but holding firm – small name.
First UK edition, published by Smith Elder three months earlier in the US. The final Sherlock Holmes novel.
Frank Wiles, who provides the frontispiece, drew many of the illustrations for Holmes’s appearances in The Strand magazine. Doyle thought Wiles came closest to the Holmes likeness he had always imagined — which, if Wiles’ work here is any guide, was very much like Basil Rathbone.
A very presentable copy.
