Set Reminder2024-02-15 12:00:002024-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : A Study in Sherlock, Part II: Including the Collections of Robert Hess and Roy Pilot https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/a-study-in-sherlock-part-ii-including-the-collections-of-robert-hess-and-roy-pilot-21913 We are pleased to announce the second session of Robert Hess's Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collection. High spots will include the only known copy of the first English edition of The Lost World in original dust jacket and Sidney Paget's personal robe.
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). Memories and Adventures. London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [18 September 1924].Large 8vo. Portrait frontispiece of the author and 7 plates. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (a touch of rubbing at extreme ends and corners, few minor spots of soiling to covers); original dust jacket (spine sunned, some soiling or staining to panels, extremities chipped with some losses). Provenance: Glenn Joseph Shea (bookplate and rubberstamp); Henry Knight (ownership signature dated 1925).FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Doyle?s episodic memoirs, originally published in Strand Magazine, October 1923. A title rarely seen in the original dust jacket. Green and Gibson B34a.