THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Without the rare dustwrapper. Illustrated with sixteen full page black and white plates by Sydney Paget. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth with a few light marks and some mottling to the top edge of the upper board and upper rear spine fold, is otherwise bright. The contents, lacking the blank front endpaper, and cracked to the inner front hinge, are otherwise complete and clean throughout. All plates are present as called for and in fine condition.

The first edition in book form of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published between 1903 and 1904 in the Strand Magazine. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. (Green and Gibson A29a).