THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: 'The Adventure of the Empty House'; 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder'; 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men'; 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist'; 'The Adventure of the Priory School"; "The Adventure of Black Peter'; 'The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton'; 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons'; 'The Adventure of the Three Students'; 'The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez'; 'The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter'; 'The Adventure of the Abbey Grange'; 'The Adventure of the Second Stain'. - ILLUSTRATED BY SIDNEY PAGET. --- WITH SMALL BOOKPLATE OF 'THE GAGLIANI LIBRARY, . . ., Paris/Nice'* AND INVENTORY MARK OF THE 'REICHSKANZLEI BERLIN'** . . .

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1 blank sheet, Foretitlesh., Frontispice-plate, Titlesheet, 1 sh. 'Contents', 1 sh. 'Illustrations', 401 (1) pages on thicker paper with 15 intercalated singleside printed plates of illustrations, (4) p. publisher's ads. of which the last lists 'A. Conan Doyle['s] Great Detective Stories'. - Publisher's gilt-titled blue cloth-binding; 8vo.(ca. 19,5 x 13,5 x 5 cm). *** [SOMMER-SCHLUSS-VERKAUF bis Montag, den 08.09.2025 / SUMMER-END-SALE until Monday, September 8th, 2025: um fast 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of almost 30%; ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 1.200,-] --- FIRST BOOK-EDITION OF DOYLE'S THIRD COLLECTION OF SHERLOCK-HOLMES STORIES, CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL; WITH AN INTERESTING - if not notorious** - HISTORY: *) Inner frontpal bottom-right with a bookseller's - resp. circulating-library's - sticker of the period 'THE GAGLIANI LIBRARY / Engl. & Americ. Books, / Paris, 224, rue de Rivoli / Nice, 8, Avenue Masséna', foretitle top-right with probably slightly later difficult-to-read holograph ownership-name 'B. Tarnhof'(or Tamhof?, ink) and a **) three-line pencil-entry by the same hand ''Reichskanzlei / Berlin / Wilhelmstrass[e]'' (from the 1930ies to 1945 Adolf Hitler's Berlin-Residence with the 'Führerbunker' underneath) above the printed foretitle. - 'THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' IS A COLLECTION OF 13 SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES, originally published in the 'Strand Magazine' in England and 'Collier's' in the United States in 1903/1904. Doyle published these new adventures of the famous detective after 'public demand' to revive his hero after his assumably death at Swiss Reichenbach Falls in 1893. 'The Adventure of the Empty House' describes the circumstances of his survival and informs the reader that Holmes spent some time in Tibet in the meantime. . . --- JOINTS, BOTTOM OF SPINE AND SHARP-CORNERS SOMEWHAT-, TOP OF SPINE AND PANELS' CORNERS MINIMALLY TO SLIGHTLY RUBBED; cloth-surface split at rearjoint between 5-cm from top to 6-cm from bottom with a few loose strings at both ends of the affected area; front flyleaf with slight-, rear-fly with minor glueshadow of the pastedowns; foretitle sheet partly-, last page of ads. minimally foxy; outer paper-edges slightly dusty; OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY.

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THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: 'The Adventure of the Empty House'; 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder'; 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men'; 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist'; 'The Adventure of the Priory School"; "The Adventure of Black Peter'; 'The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton'; 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons'; 'The Adventure of the Three Students'; 'The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez'; 'The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter'; 'The Adventure of the Abbey Grange...

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London, George Newnes Ltd. - Southampton St., Strand, W.C., MCMV (1905).

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Softcover

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• 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / e...