The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. XVII: The ‘Gloria Scott’. [THIS ADVENTURE ONLY]
( Sherlock HOLMES ) ( Sidney PAGET, illus. ) DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan
[Illustrated by Sidney Paget. From The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, April 1893.]
FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND: THE 'GLORIA SCOTT'
Published: [Strand Magazine], [1893]
Stock code: 47058
Price: £150.00
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND AND CHRONOLOGICALLY THE EARLIEST CASE IN THE CANON. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, April 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the fifth of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the fourth when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 74; Green & Gibson A14.iv.