Comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow) & The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine Comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow) & The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
George Newnes Ltd., 1891.
Twenty-three volumes. All bound in publisher's original pictorial blue cloth with gilt blocked titles on the spine. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Generally in very good condition, mostly quite bright with repairs to the spine of volumes 4 and 46, some volumes worn to the spine and a couple of volumes with tender hinges.
A complete collection of all the Sherlock Holmes stories to be published in The Strand Magazine, comprising the first UK appearances of all 56 short stories and the serialisation of the final two novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear, all preceding any book form edition.
The Strand Magazine is inextricably linked with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Having been approached for contributions from the magazine's inception, Doyle later wrote,
"Considering these various journals with their disconnected stories it had struck me that a single character running through a series, if it only engaged the attention of the reader, would bind that reader to that particular magazine
Looking around for my central character, I felt that Sherlock Holmes, who I had already handled in two little books, would easily lend himself to a succession of short stories." - Doyle (Memories and Adventures)
The previous full length Sherlock Holmes books had been quietly successful, but it was the monthly short stories in The Strand, voraciously consumed by a readership which quickly reached 500,000, which transported Sherlock Holmes from niche interest to household name.
Stock ID: 46509
£6,000.00
