Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Long Stories

Description

First published in 1929 by John Murray, this is the 1952 edition of the collected longer stories of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories include A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear. As Conan Doyle puts it himself in the preface, “There was no American copyright in 1887 when the Study in Scarlet was written, so that the book had a circulation in the United States, and attracted some attention. As a consequence Mr Lippincott sent an ambassador over to treat for a successor. He had commissions for several British authors, and invited Oscar Wilde and myself to dinner to discuss the matter. The result was The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Sign of Four.” This edition is in good condition, apart from some tearing to the dust jacket; the binding is otherwise fully intact.