L. W. Currey, Inc.

Carr, John Dickson. THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, [1949]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] ix-x [xi-xii] 1-304 [305: colophon] [306-308: blank], illustrations, publisher's brown cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. "A splendid biography, at once sympathetic and detached, skillful and thorough, as well as strong on the natural gifts Doyle possessed for detective investigation and its transfusion into fictional plots." - Barzun and Taylor: A Catalogue of Crime 2913. A nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket with some rubbing, mainly to spine ends and corners. (#82619).

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