1896 1st ed A. Conan Doyle Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Napoleonic Military

1896 1^st ed A. Conan Doyle Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Napoleonic Military

 

“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.”

-Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Brigadier Gerard is an officer in Napoleon’s army—recklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. The Brigadier’s wonderful comic adventures, long established in the affections of Conan Doyle’s admirers are second only to those of the incomparable Sherlock Holmes.

 

“Exploits of Brigadier Gerard” holds quite a different theme from A. Conan Doyle’s series of “Sherlock Holmes”. This first edition has 24 illustrations throughout and is bound in the original publisher’s red cloth binding.

 

Item number: #2852

Price: $499

 

DOYLE, A. Conan

 

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by A. Conan Doyle with twenty-four illustrations by W.B. Wollen.

 

London : George Newnes, Ltd. 1896. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation complete with all pages: [8], 334, [2], [8 ads]
  • 24 full-page illustrations
  • 7500 copies printed of the first edition
    • Earliest copies, including this one feature 8pp ads in back dated: 10.2.96
  • Provenance:
    • Armorial Bookplate – J. A. Brent Grotrian
    • Stamp – W.H. Smith & Son, London
    • Handwritten – Phillip F. Durham
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
  • Size: ~7.75in X 5.5in (19.5cm x 14cm)

 

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