This book was published in Arthur Conan Doyle's Lifetime!

Rare First Printing with the Original Dustjacket

The CONAN DOYLE Stories

6 Volumes in 1

The Ring and the Camp / Pirates and Blue Water / Terror and Mystery 

Twilight and the Unseen / Adventure and Medical Life / Tales of Long Ago

States the book has 1216 pages [but only has 1202 pages, so this is an error in the print]

by

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Published by John Murray

First Edition in One Volume

1929

RARE - FIRST - IMPRESSION

Preface by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE is dated:

April 26, 1929

On the inner prelim of the original dustjacket, there is a message from Sir Winston Churchill who wrote:

'Of course I read every Sherlock Holmes story, but the works I like even more than the detective stories are the great historical novels which, like Sherlock Holmes, have certainly found a permanent place in English literature.'.

This volume comprises most of Conan Doyle's short stories other than those relating to the great detective Sherlock Holmes.

The ORIGINAL dustjacket bears the price of 20s net to the bottom of the inner front prelim.

It has slight water damage to the bottom. It is a little soiled in general but it is complete and intact.

Boards are rust coloured cloth with gold/gilt lettering to the spine and front board. The spine cloth is lighter than the boards and there is a fair amount of soiling to the cloth. The binding remains tight.

Written inside the front board it states: 'Sitwell'

Written by Edith Sitwell, herself.

There is a minimum amount of foxing to the end-pages and throughout the book.

'There is an error in how many pages there actually are because there are in fact 1202 pages. It does not mean that there are 14 pages missing; it means that they made an error on the dustjacket. The very last story does actually finish on page 1202 because at the bottom of the last page the printers name appears which always appears on the very last page of a book'.

Apart from the page edges being browned, the pages are in a beautifully clean condition.

The top edge is still a deep red in colour.

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SMALL BONUS BOOK TO ACCOMPANY:

THE HOGARTH ESSAYS

Poetry & Criticism by Edith Sitwell

FIRST EDITION - FIRST IMPRESSION

DECORATION TO THE FRONT BY VANESSA BELL   [VIRGINIA WOOLF'S SISTER] & PART OF THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP  

Published by: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press

1925   FIRST EDITION & FIRST IMPRESSION  Book Condition:

There was not a dustjacket issued with this book. Vanessa Bell [Virginia Woolfs' Sister] designed the beautiful illustration on the front board. Slim card covered book and spine is not present. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and soiled. 

Pages are browned and foxed mainly to end-pages and inner boards. Pages slight loose at margin but all is intact. Few small pencil notations.