1920 Rare Book - The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle.
Title: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Publisher: New York & Chicago, A. L. Burt Company, ca. 1920.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 x 5 inches. 
Pages: 307 pages + publisher's catalogue. 
Binding: Attractive and very good original black cloth binding, front cover and spine stamped in red. Publisher’s device on the front cover (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or toning - as shown, upper corner of the final pages creased - as shown). Internally clean and well preserved. 


The book: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is one of the most influential collections of detective fiction ever published, introducing readers to twelve of Sherlock Holmes’s most celebrated cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, and The Copper Beeches.

This A. L. Burt edition represents an early 20th-century American reprint, issued for a broad readership at an accessible price while preserving the iconic Victorian aura of Conan Doyle’s original stories. The striking black cloth binding with bold red stamping is particularly evocative of the era and remains highly collectible. Though not a first edition, copies in solid condition are increasingly scarce, especially with attractive, unfaded cover stamping.

The author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician whose creation of Sherlock Holmes permanently reshaped detective fiction. Combining rational observation, forensic reasoning, and memorable characterisation, Conan Doyle established narrative conventions that continue to influence crime literature, film, and popular culture worldwide. Holmes’s enduring appeal lies not only in intellectual brilliance, but also in the richly atmospheric London settings and moral tensions of late Victorian society that Conan Doyle captured with remarkable clarity.