'A Study In Scarlet' within Beeton's Christmas Annual, 1887

DOYLE, [Sir] Arthur Conan (1859-1930)

Published by London and New York: Baker Street Irregulars and the Sherlock Holmes Society, 1960

About this Item

[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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 'A Study In Scarlet' within Beeton's Christmas Annual, 1887
• Publisher: London and New York: Baker Street Irregulars and the Sherlock Holmes Society, 1960
• Binding: Soft cover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Sherlock Holmes Stories