“CROWBOROUGH” EDITION OF THE WORKS OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SIGNED BY HIM
CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. Works. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, original half tan cloth, top edges gilt, uncut and largely unopened.
“Crowborough” edition, number 125 of only 760 sets signed by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Issued in the year of Conan Doyle's death, "the Crowborough Edition was intended to be a complete and definitive edition of the author's works of fiction. He was to have revised each book, written new prefaces, and arranged the stories in their final order. Unfortunately he was prevented from doing so by illness and by his other commitments" (Green & Gibson, A61). With all six of Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes works: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Hound of the Baskervilles and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Faint marginal dampstaining to text in Volume XVII only; mild toning, soiling to cloth spines, small mark to spine of Volume XXII. An extremely good set.