“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, modern full brown morocco gilt, raised bands, green and russet spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $22,500.

“Crowborough” edition, number 311 of only 760 sets signed by Arthur Conan Doyle, handsomely bound.

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.

Tiny marginal tear to first few leaves of Volume II, not touching text, text otherwise fine. Handsomely bound.