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The valley of fear : a Sherlock Holmes novel
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full-colour pictorial dust jacket with scene of several men and one woman on upper cover; lettering and rule in black superimposed on the picture at top

The valley of fear : a Sherlock Holmes novel

Date1917
Names
FormatBook
Notes
Green and Gibson: App. IIc (p. 594-595); Light brown textured cloth hardcover lettered and ruled in cream on upper cover and spine; plain endpapers; t.p. lettered and ruled in black within a narrow double-ruled black frame with publisher's device, also in black, in center; "Published by arrangement with George H. Doran Company" below imprint; contents (p. 5-6); [4] pages of publisher's advertisements at end; full-colour pictorial dust jacket with scene of several men and one woman on upper cover; lettering and rule in black superimposed on the picture at top; lettering and rules in black against a beige background on spine; lower cover of dust jacket white with blue lettering within a narrow blue frame listing eight titles with heading "Important fiction now in the popular edition; " comments on "The valley of fear" on front flap, with note "The first new Sherlock Holmes story in ten years; " advertisement for another book on back flap.
Medium
Books
Language
CollectionArthur Conan Doyle Collection
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Object Number37131055048037D
Manuscript letter written in Alfred H. Wood's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "Dear Greenhough-Smith The first of the supplementary "Sherlock Holmes" stories will reach you after Easter"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
April 17,1908
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
48 Grand Parade, Carlbourne; "My dear Smith I think I could sustain my copyright in the words "Sherlock Holmes and I don't think they have been used as an advertisement up to now."
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Unknown
Beige wrapper with title at top left in red corner of cover. Below title is an illustration of ...
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Murray, John
1924
Black, beige and red mottled wrapper with black binding. 
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
1893
Coloured illustrated image of London England Streetscape. Title at top right with text banner a ...
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
1922
Coloured illustration of London streetscape. Illustration of Sherlock Holmes' profile smoking a ...
The adventure of the Sussex vampire : a new Sherlock Holmes story
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
1924
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
4 Mostyn Terrace, Eastbourne; "My dear Smith I hope you are going to have a holiday [...] The day when Holmes will really die will be the day when I think that I am letting him down".
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith I am concerned that you should publish the Sherlock story"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
September 17, 1914
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith I have a Sherlock in my head".
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith I have had thoughts of doing a new Sherlock story".
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Unknown
Beeton's Christmas annual; a study in scarlet
Beeton's Christmas annual; a study in scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
1887
Hill House Hotel, Happisburgh.; "My dear Smith; I think perhaps this would meet the case"
Hill House Hotel, Happisburgh.; "My dear Smith; I think perhaps this would meet the case"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
approximately 1903