Study Scarlet by Doyle, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8o. pp 145. Original publisher's black illustrated laminated boards. Signed presentation on the front endpaper of Douglas Wilmer (1920Ð2016) best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 TV series Sherlock Holmes, "Best wishes, Douglas Wilmer." ISBN: 0752903837 Fine in fine dust jacket.

[Literature] AUTHOR'S EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, LIMITED to 1000 sets of which this No 472, SIGNED by Conan Doyle in the first volume. 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), illustrated with plates. In fact only 510 sets were issued in 1903, all being bound by Smith Elder. The dormant 490 quires were reissued in and after 1917 by new owners John Murray with fresh Murray title-pages, back-dated to 1903. All volumes in the present set are First Issue with Smith Elder imprint. Bound in full light blue leather, tooled in gilt to spine, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With tipped-in AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 'To My Dear Shorter', declining the offer of an interview. The recipient is almost certainly Clement Shorter, the British critic, journalist and friend of Dr. Doyle. Contents clean, presentation label to pastedown, binding gently rubbed and handled; pleasingly aged. The Author considered this edition to be of great importance: he revised parts, and added notes and a number of special introductions, stating: ".I have expended all pains into putting these books into their final form, and so I leave them." Doyle only signed the 1000 copies of the UK edition, and none of the US issue. This set was formerly housed at Rare Books Special Collections, San Diego Public Library, donated in 1975 with ca.700 volumes, to the Wangenheim Room, in memory of Mildred W. Warner, and her father-in-law, Dr. V. Van Zele. Recently de-acquisitioned by The Friends of the Library. there are no institutional stamps or markings apart from the presentation bookplate on the pastedown. An attractive set. Green & Gibson [A60]. Signed.

[Sherlock Holmes] LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILE SIGNED BY LORD DONEGALL. The first facsimile of Doyle's landmark first detective novel. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.168, with adverts and publisher's notes. Colour illustrated paper wraps with illustrated salmon-coloured printed card jacket. Limited to 500 copies, this being no.24 of the 100 allocated to the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and SIGNED by the Marquess of Donegall. A clean, fine copy of the book in a near fine jacket which is sunned to spine and extremities. Edward Chichester (1903-75), 6th Marquess of Donegall, was the editor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal who first conceived the idea of this exact reproduction (with three 'intentional variations'), issued as the eighth publication of the Baker Street Irregulars. A further facsimile was issued upon the centenary of the novel in 1987. Signed.