first edition Hardcover
1916 · London
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Volume one only (of six). All maps and plans present. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Octavo. xv, 344pp. Sherlockian Vincent Starrett's name penned on half-title, offsetting on half-title and last page, gutter starting, spine split at joints, spine ends and corners frayed, a good only copy lacking the dust jacket. Edgar Wadsworth Smith's copy, a Sherlockian Giant author and editor of the legendary Baker Street Irregulars magazine. A wonderful association copy, with both Smith's decorative bookplate on the front pastedown and Starrett's Signature on the half-title.
(Inventory #: 466902)