The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury [REVISED & EXPANDED]

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Edité par Avenel Books, New York, 1984

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New condition glossy black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Foreword; A Note on the Text; About the Illustrations; Publisher's Note; and Mr. Sherlock Holmes by Dr. Joseph Bell. Illustrated with the original drawings by Sidney Paget plus additional drawings by George Hutchinson and Frank H. Townsend. Includes Adventures of SHerlock Holmes; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; The Return of Sherlock Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles; A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four; The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge; and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. "With all the original illustrations by Sidney Paget plus additional illustrations by George Hutchinson and Frank H. Townsend. "A scientific detective, to whom Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin was a trifler and Gaboriau's Lecoq a child. He is a wonderful man, is Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and one gets so interested in his cleverness, and in the mysteries he unravels, that one cannot lay down the narrative until the end is reached." So wrote the reviewer for the Glasgow Herald when A Study in Scarlet first introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world in 1888. But this early brilliant novel and its sequel, The Sign of the Four, are rarely reprinted today, despite their appeal and the fact that they contain engaging descriptions of the Great Detective and his dedicated disciple, Dr. John H. Watson, fleshing out their characters, backgrounds, hobbies, and habits, as well as chronicling their earliest meetings. This newly revised edition of The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury has remedied that neglect, incorporating these two works together with marvelous illustrations which are virtually unknown today: those by George Hutchinson for A Study in Scarlet and those by Frank H. Townsend for The Sign of the Four. Other additions to this collection are two late stories, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," as well as an intriguing article from the 1890s Bookman, describing how Conan Doyle, during medical school, acquired the background for his famous detective's keen powers of observations and deduction. The core of this anthology remains the ever-fascinating stories in the complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and the full-length novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. They are presented here in their original classic setting - the pages of The Strand Magazine, featuring the incomparable illustrations of Sidney Paget. Immersing yourself in this treasury, you reaalize again why Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in English literature. Asked to choose three favorite heroes of the printed word, it is the rare reader who would not place Sherlock Holmes among them." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury [REVISED & EXPANDED]
• Éditeur: Avenel Books, New York
• Date de parution: 1984
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Paget, Sidne y (original illustrations); Hutchinson, George (additional illustrations); Townsend, Frank H. (additional illustrations); Jennis, Paul (jacket illustraton); Malloy, Brian (book design)
• Impression: 5th Printing
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: Fine