
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished…”
FIRST EDITION of Doyle’s second, and arguably greatest, collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, with 90 illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Copy with cloth and gilt particularly bright. $3000.
http://www.manhattanrarebooks-literature.com/doyle.memoirs.htm
hm, hm, $3000.