The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
1908. New Edition. 296 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains 23 black and white illustrative plates and frontispiece by Sidney Paget. Slight cracks at both hinges. Mild tanning to endpapers with small pencil inscription to front, pen inscription at rear and top of page 1. Mild tanning to pages with occasional light foxing and thumb marking. Some heavy cracking to gutters throughout, causing text block to be loose and shaky. Boards have moderate shelf wear with rubbing and heavy corner bumping. Some light marking to surfaces and tanning to spine with crushing and moderate tears at ends. Cloth is beginning to fray.