Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. THE WORKS OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. Garden City and New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. The Crowborough Edition. (24) volumes (complete). Limited edition; no. 574 of 750 for-sale sets (760 total numbered sets with 10 of these for presentation). Signed by Arthur Conan Doyle in the first volume on the limitation page, as issued. Quarter linen over brown paper-covered boards with the author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on the front cover, with paper spine labels and top edge gilt. 8vo; includes important works such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Lost World, The Sign of Four, The White Company, and many other titles; Volume I with portrait frontispiece.

8 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.

From a Private Birmingham, Alabama Collection

Boards with occasional light wear and mild staining, and rare minor insect hole, with foxing and sunning to cloth, and some spines with slight separation from text block at head and a few paper labels with mild wear or toning; lacking paper dust jackets; interiors with rare spot of foxing, occasional grime, and page edges with age toning and occasional wear from being opened; occasional gutter cracking, a few volumes with hinge cracking or light hinge wear starting, and one volume with offsetting to front endpaper; text leaves overall extremely clean with many still partially unopened. Very good.

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