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on 27 February of the same year. It is, however, much less common, with some 20,000 fewer copies issued in Britain. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece by Frank Wiles. Contemporary gift inscription to first blank. Spine very slightly rolled and a little sunned, couple of tiny specks to front cover, slight bumps to lower tips, foxing to edges, endmatter and occasionally to margins, browning to endpapers; an excellent copy, notably bright. ¶ Green & Gibson A39a. £2,000 [152168] 62 ELIA, Miriam. We Go to the Gallery. God is Dead. London: the artist, 2014 Edition of 100, signed and numbered in pencil lower right by Elia, titled lower left and lower middle. The print was one of three available for supporters of Elia’s Kickstarter project who pledged £250 or more prior to the book’s publication in 2015; she raised £5,000. We Go to the Gallery , which satirically apes the style of the Peter and Jane Ladybird Books from the 1960s and ’70s, won Miriam Elia acclaim around the world and a legal warning from Penguin for breach of copyright. Elia replaced the ladybird logo with a dung beetle for further publications. One leaf from the book We Go to the Gallery , stuck onto an old Ladybird Book. Image size: 23 × 17.2 cm. Sheet size: 34.7
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60 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; [together with:] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes Ltd, 1892 & 1894 THE ORIGINAL COLLECTED SHERLOCK HOLMES SHORT STORIES First editions, of the first two great collections of Sherlock Holmes stories. In October 1892 and December 1893 respectively, the original publisher of the Strand Magazine collected together the Sherlock Holmes stories which had originally appeared in the periodical. Adventures is the first issue with the misprint “Miss Violent Hunter” on page 317, and the blank street sign in the vignette on the front cover. The textual error continued through three further printings, but from the second impression onwards the street sign was corrected to read “Southampton Street”. There are no corresponding issue points for Memoirs . This is a particularly attractive set, presented with individual chemises and a distinctive slipcase bearing
an appropriate picture of the famous detective to both front and rear sides. Together 2 works, quarto. Original light and dark blue cloth respectively, lettering to spine and front covers in gilt and black, pale grey floral patterned endpapers, top edges gilt. Housed in custom marbled paper and cloth chemises with a cloth slipcase bearing design of Sherlock Holmes on two sides. Illustrated throughout the text by Sydney Paget. Bookplate to Adventures . Ownership signature to Memoirs . Some light soiling to binding ( Adventures ) with extremities slightly bumped, inner hinges splitting as usual, occasional foxing, and some light dampstaining to corners of first few leaves ( Memoirs ); very good copies, with Memoirs particularly bright. ¶ Green & Gibson A10 & A14. £12,500 [153182] 61 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Valley of Fear. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915 the tragedy of birlstone manor First British edition of the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel. Published on 3 June 1915, the London edition was preceded by the US edition, published
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