The Sign of Four (Engraved in the Advanced Style of Pitman's Shorthand)
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 171 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Shorthand text. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Water staining to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping and slight fraying to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.
Synopsis
The Sign of the Four (1890) (also called The Sign of Four) was the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1709646533BWS
- Title
- The Sign of Four (Engraved in the Advanced Style of Pitman's Shorthand)
- Author
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Acceptable
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