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The Hound of the Baskervilles; in: The Strand Magazine
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Century City, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Newnes, 1902. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. 9 vols. The 1st appearance anywhere. The serialized novel in the individual Strand Magazines. Original wrappers, 2 rear wrappers have the correct ads but slightly variant wording, all issue have general wear, with chipping to the spines, else very good, complete, so cool, and rarely seen for sale. Significantly rarer in parts than the Adventures or Memoirs.
Synopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet . His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War—became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.
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- Bookseller
- Biblioctopus
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 920
- Title
- The Hound of the Baskervilles; in: The Strand Magazine
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Wrappers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Newnes
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- AMAZING
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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