Auction Name: 2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 45161

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A. Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. [And:] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1892 and 1894.

2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles in both volumes; illustrations by Sidney Paget. Publisher's cloth bindings of light blue and dark blue, respectively, both stamped in gilt and black; housed together in a single chemise and slipcase.

FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE of Adventures, with the misprint Miss "Violent" Hunter for "Violet" in the final sentence of "The Copper Beeches" (p. 317). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first collection of Holmes stories to be published, was released shortly after the success of the series in The Strand Magazine.

Condition: Adventures with some edgewear and soiling; abrasion to spine with splits in cloth affecting the imprint; hinges split but holding; spine leaned; ink ownership stamp on first page of text; pale spotting to text throughout. Memoirs with spine sunned and scattered soiling; edgewear with some splits in spine ends; hinges starting; ink ownership on front free endpaper recto; pale spotting to text and some thumbsoiling; closed tear on pp. 1/2 just touching the last two lines of text.

References: De Waal 520 and 596; Green & Gibson A10a & A14a; both titles are Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones; Queen's Quorum 16 (Adventures, "one of the world's masterworks").

Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.

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