Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [and] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Together, 2 volumes. Half-titles and numerous illustrations by Sidney Paget. Final blank leaf in first title, frontispiece in second. Large 8vo, original light and dark blue cloth, respectively, beveled boards, all edges gilt, rebacked with the spines laid down, joints repaired, gilt dulled, especially to spines, scattered minor soiling, slight lean to each; hinges strengthened, ownership inscription and booklabel to first volume, light scattered foxing and occasional finger soiling, faint tidemark to end pages of first volume. First editions, first issues, the first title with the street sign blank on the front cover, and first state uncorrected text with "cucaine" for "cocaine" on page 133, and the misprint Miss "Violent" Hunter on page 317. De Waal 529; 596; Green and Gibson, A10a; A14a. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones. London: George Newnes, 1892; 1894