B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S S U M M E R 2 0 2 3 6 “CROWBOROUGH” EDITION OF THE WORKS OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SIGNED BY HIM 6. CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. Works. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, top edges gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $16,000 “Crowborough” edition, number 122 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 de!nitive edition of the author's works of !ction. He was to have revised each book, written new prefaces, and arranged the stories in their !nal 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. Fine condition.
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