The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. XX: The Crooked Man. [THIS ADVENTURE ONLY]
( Sherlock HOLMES ) ( Sidney PAGET, illus. ) DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan
[Illustrated by Sidney Paget. From The Strand Magazine, Vol. VI, July 1893.]
FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND: THE CROOKED MAN
Published: [Strand Magazine], [1893]
Stock code: 47061
Price: £140.00
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. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. VI, July 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the eighth of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the seventh when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 44; Green & Gibson A14.vii.