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). The Lost World. London: Henry Frowde, [1914].Large 8vo. 13 mounted plates including portrait frontispiece (several in color). Original light brown cloth over beveled boards, boards and spine stamped in brown, spine lettered in gilt, blue top stain, illustrated endleaves (spine a touch sunned, else fine); ORIGINAL SLIPCASE with printed spine label (edgewear, some splitting).FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, LARGE PAPER EDITION (?New Edition?), one of 810 copies. A rare variant unrecorded by Green and Gibson: the foot of the spine reads ?OXFORD? and the lettering on the upper cover is stamped in brown rather than the usual gilt. The bibliographers mention that a number of copies were bound at a later date and have a different imprint on the spine (?MILFORD?) but they state that the covers are otherwise the same.AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY in the exceedingly rare publisher?s slipcase, of which we have not been able to locate any at auction nor was one seen by Green & Gibson. Green & Gibson, A37d.