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WILLIAM,DAVID: : SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Missing Books - Volume 2

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Softback/p/b original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/ title.Softbacks/pbs usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but softback/pb originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and unpriced.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with colour pictorial illustrated front cover,with black lettering,plain white spine and rear cover too; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK, small 8vo s/back Original,1st edn,i-iiipp+ 1-152pp [paginated] includes a preface,7 chapters - 5 stories,a Conan Doyle monograph on the Art of detection,Holmes in verse and worse (Holmesian jokes),plus [unpaginated] title page. The detective duo of Holmes and Watson first appeared before a largely unprepared audience in 1887 in 'A Study in Scarlet', and continued to enthral readers as new stories appeared over the next forty years.Several times in that period Doyle tried to finish with Sherlock Holmes,but demands from publishers and public were too great. Conan Doyle himself was also in two minds,aware of the international popularity and its earning potential of his creation but also by the strength and success of the main characters.This in turn,imposed quite a rigid structure in which other characters were of secondary importance to the plot,and it was the plot that allowed the opportunity open to Doyle to demonstrate his main creation,the new science of criminology and the associated use of deductive logic. Doyle's reluctance to finish with Holmes & Watson can be seen,if not deduced,from the way he left openings for new stories. These appear almost incidentally throughout the text of quite a few of the published stories,alongside similar references to stories that he had already written and published.Most of these 'missing books' come from the material before 1904 so perhaps Doyle had by this time decided that there was no need to present an ever growing list of titles with which he was unlikely to do anything. The result is that we have been left with tantalising glimpses of perhaps two dozen Sherlock Holmes stories which consist of a tite and possibly the indication of a plot,together with a precedent for leaving yet more. So a batch of the 'missing books', unashamedly founded in the original style as far as the skills of the writer allow, have now been written and are published here,with all due acknowledgement to the original creative abilities of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.They are in the short story format but lack those atmospheric illustrations of Sydnay Paget that helped to add extra life and immediacy. An uncommon and unusual emphemeral item for the Sherlockian canon and collector alike. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,small 8vo wraps, s/back Original,1st edn.

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