1892 1st ed Sherlock Holmes Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery

1892 1^st ed Sherlock Holmes Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery

 

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth!”

– Sherlock Holmes

 

First appearing in 1887, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the greatest and most well-known fictional detective. This first Leipzig (European) edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet” is the second book Doyle published and the first appearance of the infamous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, beginning the famous Holmes series.

 

This 1892 edition was published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, a German publishing house based in Leipzig (Germany), founded by Christian Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz who published 21 novels and 10 volumes of short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle between 1891 and 1929.

 

Item number: #12914

Price: $950

 

DOYLE, Arthur Conan

 

A Study in Scarlet

 

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1892. First European edition

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [3], 6-278
• Provenance: Armorial Bookplate / Handwritten – Josiah C. Wedgwood
  • Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL (1872 – 1943), sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV, was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald. He was a prominent single-tax activist following the political-economic reformer Henry George. He was the great-great-grandson of the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~6.25in X 4.75in (16cm x 12cm)
• Very rare and desirable

 

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