Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott Company 1890
First American Edition. 8vo; 214 pp. ads. blue cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt, brown rosebud endpapers, good, in as found condition with no restoration; bubbling of covers; rubbing to corners and tops and bottoms of front and back covers and spine; hinges sprung; small triangular cut to right top of title page not affecting text; owners name on upper title page not affecting text. This is a fine example compared with other copies we have seen of this notoriously difficult book to find in reasonable condition. This volume is the first American cloth edition of the story containing the most auspicious debut of a fictional character in the world. Green & Gibson A1.b.
$US7000
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