Lot 176
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs | 09 May 2007
Description
A study in scarlet. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1888, first edition, SECOND (NOT FIRST) impression, with "youuger" for "younger" in preface, 6 plates, 14pp. of advertisements at end, late nineteenth century green pebbledash cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, faint library stamp on endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription at head of title, inscription shaved, adhesion to page 8-9 affecting six words and creating two small holes to inner margin of page 7/8, lacking the two pp. advertisements at beginning, a few page corners slightly creased
Footnote
Note: The very rare first edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's first book. A study in scarlet was first published in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. Conan Doyle was paid £25 for the complete copyright by Ward Lock and Co. after the work had been rejected by the Cornhill Magazine, Arrowsmith's of Bristol and Warne. It marks the first appearance in print of both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.