DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Me

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DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes * The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Together, 2 volumes. Frontispieces, illustrated, publisher's catalogues at rear. 8vo, publisher's blue pictorial cloth lettered in gilt, minor rubbing to spine tips, scattered soiling; first title with gift inscription, front hinge tender in second title, LMS booklabels to front pastedowns. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892; 1894

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first american editions, first issues with "if had" on p. 65 line 4 of the first title; the suppressed story "The Cardboard Box" is included in the second title. The American Adventures was published on 15 October 1892, the day after the English edition, and the American Memoirs on 2 February 1894, around six weeks after the English edition. The first title, Queen's Quorum 16; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones. Green and Gibson A10b; A14b.