Sherlock Holmes Three Volume Set with Slip Cases

Arthur Conan Doyle

Published by Heritage Press, 1950

About this Item

The first volume of Sherlock Holmes were published in 1950, and The Later Adventures was published in 1952. The books are bound in 1/4 cloth and and paper. The front boards have cameos of Sherlock Holmes pressed in the decorations on the boards are, related to the story the Musgrave Ritual in which Homes is described shooting his gun at the wall and making a "V R" design in "bullet-pocks." The VR decorations are in the upper left and lower right corners of each volume. The page edges are speckled in the same color ink as the paper covers. The Heritage Press "Sandglass" is laid into both volumes. Both volumes are reported to have original illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, and others. Volume 1 which contains A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, the Twelve Adventures originally published as " The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and the Twelve Adventures originally published as "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This volume has 764 pages. Pages 741/742 appear to have been bent in upon them selves and have some flattened folds. The Later Adventures volume has pages 767-1222. The slip cases for both volume show some light wear and scuffing. The case for the first volume also has a tear to the top layer of the paper ar the upper left corner near the back panel. Neither volume has their glassine wrapper. Please look at the images provided carefully, and ask questions about these volumes prior to making a picture, thank you.

Seller Inventory # Sp1000

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sherlock Holmes Three Volume Set with Slip Cases
• Publisher: Heritage Press
• Publication Date: 1950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction