Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
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, some occasional mottling/soiling to boards, second title leaning slightly; hinges tightened, contents with intermittent spotting, and tidemark to last few leaves 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. (2) London: George Newnes, 1892; 1894