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). Micah Clarke. London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889.8vo. 16pp. publisher?s ads at end. Original gilt-lettered navy-blue cloth over beveled boards, decorative endpapers (a touch of rubbing at ends and fore-corners).FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the author?s best-selling third book. An early issue with the ads dated January 1889 (first issue ads were dated June 1888). ?Micah Clarke was the ?first solid corner-stone laid for some sort of literary reputation?? (Gibson and Green A3a). Sadleir 747. -- [With:] DOYLE. Micah Clarke. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. 8vo. Illustrations by George Willis Bardwell. Original pictorial tan cloth stamped in gilt, white, red, and black (spine sunned, spotting to covers). Second authorized American edition. Green and Gibson A3d.