(#170912) A STUDY IN SCARLET. A DETECTIVE STORY ... A New Edition with Forty Illustrations by Geo. Hutchinson. Arthur Conan Doyle.

A STUDY IN SCARLET. A DETECTIVE STORY ... A New Edition with Forty Illustrations by Geo. Hutchinson. London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., 1892. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [[viii] [1] 2-224 + 24 pages of ads (signatures Q and R), illustrations, two part red and tan cloth, stamped in red and gold, top edge gilt, floral endpapers. Later (second?) printing of the second British edition. The debut of Sherlock Holmes in book form, first published in Beeton's 1887 Christmas Annual published by Ward, Lock and Co. See Green and Gibson A.1.c. Hairline crack along inner front hinge, text block shaken, a good copy. (#170912).

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