1900 Rare Book - The MEMOIRS of SHERLOCK HOLMES by Arthur Conan DOYLE. Illustrated.
(Description)
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle.
Title: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Publisher: New York, A. L. Burt Company, no date (copyright 1897 but probably circa the 1900s).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 259 pages + publisher's catalog.
Binding: Attractive and very good original full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, nice ex-libris of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with four full-page illustrations.
The book: Rare and very nice early edition of The MEMOIRS of SHERLOCK HOLMES including 11 short stories: Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-Broker's Clerk, The Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Puzzle, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty, and, The Final Problem.
The author: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.