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Rare First Printing with the Original Dustjacket. - 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. - 76 Stories - 1216 pages. - Stated on the copyright page: First Edition in One Volume. 1929. - 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. - The 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. It is stated to the dustjacket that there are 76 stories which the book does have. - 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' - [I have researched the signature and it appears to be that of 'Edith Sitwell'] - There is a minimum amount of foxing to the endpages 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. - Overall; a fabulous book. - BONUS ITEM: A wonderful report all about Arthur Conan Doyle's life. 22nd May 1859 to 7th July 1930. It begins with a chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle's life through his entire 71 years, from his birth: 1859: Born Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, third child and elder son of ten siblings, born at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, on 22 May and baptised in the Roman Catholic religion of his parents. 1868-1875: Arthur commences education under the Jesuits at Hodder, becomes a popular storyteller among his fellow pupils. edits an unofficial school paper. 1875-1876: Arthur passes London Matriculation Examination. 1876-1877: Arthur becomes a student of Medicine at Edinburgh University. 1877-1880: Arthur becomes surgeon's clerk and medical assistant. 6 Sept 1879: First story published. It tells about his career as a GP [General Practitioner]. He serves as a surgeon on a steamer and on a whaler. It reports each time he had something published, what it was and where it was published etc. 1886: Began writing a 'Study in Scarlet'. 1891: Arthur sets up as an eye specialist in Wimpole Street. The first six 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published. 1892: Six more Holmes stories published, and that's just the elements of the first two pages of this seven page part of the report, there are another five pages of detailed historical facts. 1918: Arthur publishes 'The New Revelation', proclaiming himself a Spiritualist. His son dies from war wounds. 1920-1930: Arthur engaged in a world-wide crusade for spiritualism. 1921: Death of his mother. 1922: Publishes six [non-Holmes] stories. 1930: 7th July, 8:30 a.m. Death of Arthur Conan Doyle at his home, Windlesham, in Crowborough, East Sussex. There is a chapter about the man who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to create the character of Sherlock Holmes. [Joseph Bell] [1837-1911] - and why. There is a chapter on 'The Cottingley Fairies', and Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement. There is a photocopy of Arthur Conan Doyle's hand-written will, and.
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