2005, ISBN: 9780786715480

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers/An Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. 1st Carroll & Graf Edition: 2005 . Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Oc… Mehr…

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers/An Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. 1st Carroll & Graf Edition: 2005 . Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Tim Byrne (Cover Design). 266 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, this including the Blanched Soldier, and two others are written in the third person. In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations., Carroll & Graf Publishers/An Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group, Inc., 2005, 5<

2005, ISBN: 9780786715480

New York: Carroll & Graf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red binding with title and author imprinted in go… Mehr…

New York: Carroll & Graf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red binding with title and author imprinted in gold on spine. Stated First Edition. Deckle-edged pages . 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.6 Inches. 256 pages. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes' brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train - and nearly murdered themselves en route - the pair are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal killings of two of the Queen's servants, a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been working on the renovation of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh. Mycroft has enlisted his brother to help solve the murders that may be key elements of a much more elaborate and pernicious plot on the Queen's life. But the circumstances of the two victims' deaths also call to Holmes' mind the terrible murder - in Holyrood - of "The Italian Secretary," David Rizzio. Only Rizzio, a music teacher and confidante of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered three centuries ago. Holmes proceeds to alarm Watson with the announcement that the Italian Secretary's vengeful spirit may have taken the lives of the two men as punishment for disturbing the scene of his assassination. ., Carroll & Graf, 2005, 5<

2005, ISBN: 9780786715480

N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, Avalon Publ., 2005 HBDJ, Stated 1st Carroll & Graf Edition, 2005, 1st Printing, FINE/FINE, Red cloth Titled in Gold Gilt on Spine cvr. 263 pgs, Afterword by Jon Lel… Mehr…

N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, Avalon Publ., 2005 HBDJ, Stated 1st Carroll & Graf Edition, 2005, 1st Printing, FINE/FINE, Red cloth Titled in Gold Gilt on Spine cvr. 263 pgs, Afterword by Jon Lellenberg, DJ protected in Clear Mylar. Caleb Carr's offering here enriches the Conan Doyle tradition with a fascinating, yet relentlessly-paced tale. It begins when Sherlock Holmes reveals to Dr. Watson an encrypted telegram he has received from his brother Mycroft. They rush northward on a royal train and there learn of the brutal killings of a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been preparing to renovate a wing of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh, Scotland.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine., N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, Avalon Publ., 2005, 5<

2005, ISBN: 9780786715480

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New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing. Unread - Fresh and crisp straight from the bookstore shelf. Boards are straight and stiff. Bind… Mehr…

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing. Unread - Fresh and crisp straight from the bookstore shelf. Boards are straight and stiff. Binding is tight and still new. Tips pointed. DJ NOT price clipped without flaws. Looks spectacular in a shiny mylar dust protector. ., Carroll & Graf, 2005, 5<