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(Description)

Author: Arthur Conan DOYLE.
Title: The Tales of SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, no date (1911). First Theater Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 359 pages + (4) catalogue.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine, original full cloth binding (hinges fine) under a removable protective mylar cover. Upper edge red.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the frontispiece portrait and the 7 photographic illustration plates depicting scenes from the play starring William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes.

The book: Rare and very nice first theater edition of The Tales of SHERLOCK HOLMES including A STUDY IN SCARLET, A CASE OF IDENTITY, A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA, THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE, THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY, THE SIGN OF THE FOUR.

The author: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.