Lot 535

CONAN DOYLE, Arthur (1859-1930). The Sign of Four, London, 1892, 8vo, original cloth, 2nd. edition. With 3 others books by the same author, FIRST EDITIONS, in original cloth. (4)

Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer price: £200
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

CONAN DOYLE, Arthur (1859-1930).  The Sign of Four ... Second Edition. London: George Newnes, 1892. 8vo (188 x 120mm). (Occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots.) Original brown pictorial cloth gilt, foliate endpapers (extremities rubbed, some chips to head and foot of spine, some dampstaining to lower cover, inner hinges weak or broken). The second of Conan Doyle's novels to feature Sherlock Holmes. Cf. De Waal 279; Green and Gibson A7b. With 3 other books by the same author, namely The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (London, 1896, plates by W. B. Wollen), The Tragedy of the Korosko (London, 1898, plates by Sidney Paget) and Round the Fire Stories (London, 1908, frontispiece by A. Castaigne), all FIRST EDITIONS in original pictorial cloth (some light wear). (4)

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