The Sign of Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

Verlag: George Newnes, 1900

Beschreibung

CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. The Sign of Four. London, George Newnes, 1900. A new edition of Conan Doyle s second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. Holmes claims that his mind rebels at stagnation , when Miss Mary Morstan arrives with a new case… The story was first published in Lippincott s Monthly Magazine in February 1890, under the title The Sign of the Four, and was released in book form in October 1890, with the title The Sign of Four. In the following British and American editions, including the present 1900 edition, the second the of the original title was omitted. Octavo, pp. 285; very good in contemporary half calf with grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (some light foxing, lean to spine, spine lightly sunned, extremities and boards slightly rubbed); a few pencil annotations, bookplate to front pastedown with name erased, bookseller s stamp Hatchards 187 Piccadilly on verso of front flyleaf. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1710605884290

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Sign of Four

Verlag: George Newnes

Erscheinungsdatum: 1900

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good