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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[JESSEN, Nis (b. 1935), illustrator]. -- DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). A Study in Scarlet. [Denmark:] Hakon Holm Publishing, [2005]. 4to. Text in English. Extensively illustrated throughout by Jessen. Publisher?s pictorial boards; publisher?s printed dust jacket (minor occasional rubbing); publisher?s pictorial slipcase (minor bumping). FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS, LIMITED ISSUE, number 710 of 1000 copies SIGNED BY JESSEN; THIS COPY ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY JESSEN ON THE TITLE-PAGE. -- [With:] two signed posters by Jessen, one of Baker Street and the other of Holmes and Watson in their drawing room. Both approximately 19 ? x 27 ??. Rolled. And two prints by Jessen, one of Holmes, the other of Watson. Both approximately 10 ? x 5?. Rolled. Laid-in are seven sheets of stamps (32 stamps per sheet), with artwork by Jessen (not from this title), as well as five greeting cards with color artwork of Holmes. Jessen spent 9 years making these illustrations.