Doyle (Arthur Conan) The Sherlock Holmes Long Stories.
£525
London, John Murray, 1929,
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Rare in dust-jacket.
Out of stock
VG+/VG+ – offsetting to front endpaper, slight fading to spine, no inscriptions. The jacket has modest fading to spine, some minor dirt marks on front panel, correctly priced at 7’6 net. An excellent example.
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