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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CROWBOROUGH EDITION IN RARE DUST JACKETS DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. Works. 24 volumes. Title-pages printed in red and black. Photographic frontispiece in Volume 1. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 tan linen over brown paper boards, front covers with Doyle's gilt-facsimile signature, printed paper spine labels, spines uniformly darkened slightly from wrappers; original dust jackets with spine panels printed in brown and black, vol. 1 with cellotape repairs to verso and recto, a few volumes with minor staining, occasional short tears, heaviest to early volumes; top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930
number 97 of 760 sets of the crowborough edition signed by doyle on the limitation in volume 1. The definitive edition of his works. A very attractive set. Rare in the dust jackets with only three sets as such sold at auction in the last 30 years (PBA, 2011; Swann Galleries, 1997; MacManus, 1980). Green & Gibson A61.
