A Study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle
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A Study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle
Published: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London – No date, but around the last decade of the 19th or at the very beginning of the 20th century. The publisher’s note to the book and the note on Sherlock Holmes by Dr Joseph Bell, on whom the character was based, indicate that it was published within just a few years of the first edition of 1887. The presentation plate, dated March 1902, shows that it was published prior to then. ‘A Study in Scarlet’ is the very first in the Sherlock Holmes series.
Condition: Poor, no just jacket. The boards very worn and slightly frayed at top of spine. The binding is weak in places, but still holding together. Pages are clean and unmarked. On the inside of the front board is a presentation plate from The Band of Hope, a temperance organisation active in the second half of the 19th century.
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