#89 of 100 specially bound numbered copies, signed by ACD's daughter Jean Conan Doyle, Colin Dexter and Richard Lancelyn Green.

Armorial bookplate of Denis P.S. Conan Doyle, third son of the author.
(See companion volume The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes below).

Red cloth especially susceptible to fading from sunlight

There was also a variant binding in grey paper boards.

The French edition of The Outlook on the War.

The complete copy bound into plain dark green cloth, titled in silver on front cover and spine.
Perhaps a 'holding' copy until a better one comes along (at a higher price!)

First Canadian edition

Unrecorded in G & G. Cancel title-page with Musson logo printed at centre. Bound from the American sheets.

"Originally written for Written for Answers, Alfred Harmsworth's penny paper which had just achieved a weekly circulation of 300,000 copies." (cf. G&G p.51)

Discreet bookplate inside front cover.

First Canadian edition, later impression

G&G B1.d mentions a second impression, dated November 1900 and further Canadian impressions in January and October 1902, but NOT this one which is dated 1901. Might this actually be the third Canadian impression?

The Suppressed Second Edition [first issue]. ACD disliked "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" on the spine and his portrait as frontispiece; later replaced with "A. Conan Doyle" on spine and frontispiece of Lord Roberts.
Offered with the Second English edition, second issue. The same format as the [First Issue] but with the following differences; near fine.

1. Author's name on spine now reads "A. Conan Doyle"
2. Frontispiece now replaced with Lord Roberts
3. Title -page now reads Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Preface now reads "Preface to the Final Edition"
5. 1 p. publisher's ad at rear

Only publication in book form (no UK edition)

Originally issued in wrappers. 3 pp. ads at front; none at rear.

Although reprinted several times this is the first copy of the present edition that we have seen.

Included [only later] in the tenth impression of "A Duet With an Occasional Chorus", published in 1910.
Other contributors include Marie Corelli, Rudyard Kipling, W.S. Gilbert and Edgar Wallace

2 pp. publisher's ads at rear, including a review of Songs of the Road; "A troop of rollicking tales, of fervid exhortations and straightforward arguments ..." Surprisingly scarce in this condition.

First Canadian edition

The scarcest of all the Hounds: 2,504 copies vs. 25,000 of the British and 70,000 copies for the American editions.
This one will do while you're waiting for a better copy to come along (at a much higher price, of course.)

32 pp. publisher's ads at rear, dated "11.99" [sic], including ad for The Strand Magazine Announcements for 1900 [sic].

190 copies of the first issue were bound in light blue cloth with the dinosaur footprints stamped in blind. This is one of 810 second issue copies similarly bound, but in light brown cloth, with the footprints stamped in dark brown. One of the most spectacular ACD bindings.

Contains: "The Maracot Deep"; "The Disintegrating Machine"; "The Story of Spedegue's Dropper" [a cricketing story] and "When the World Screamed".

*Although the title-page is dated 1894, the book was actually published on December 15, 1893, no doubt to take advantage of the Christmas trade. Proof, if proof were needed, is the 1893 Christmas gift inscription on the verso of the front free end-paper. This is the first time in more than forty years that I have seen a copy so dated.
(See companion volume The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes above.)

Contains: SILV, YELL, STOC, GLOR, MUSG, REIG, CROO, RESI, GREE, NAVA, FINA

Although indicated as 'Second Edition' this is actually the second impression of the first edition: 1000 copies vs. 2000 copies of the first impression.
NB.— Later ownership inscription, below the original owner's (the Ranee of Sarawak's) signature; that signature not verified (see photos).

"Adapted for School Use" on front cover and title page; "School Edition" on spine.

"I should not have attempted [this translation] were it not that, apart from the literary and historical aspects of the work, the psychic side is expounded by a profound student of such things, and calls therefore for some equivalent psychic knowledge upon the part of the translator." (cf. ACD's preface, dated April 1924.)

A copy has been noted with the Doran copyright and logo at the top of the verso of the title-page, instead of at the centre as in this copy. (See Our Second American Adventure below).

Sheets printed in the UK.
Surprisingly scarce (see Our American Adventure above)

Contains: "Songs of Action", "Songs of the Road" and "The Guards Came Through".

1000 copies printed.
Pasted inside the front cover is what appears to be the sensational front panel from the dust jacket of a later 2/- [two shilling] edition.

With an introduction by Richard Lancelyn Green and a Foreword by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, the author's daughter.
Copy of the prospectus laid in.

* The colonial issue was issued [6 November 1896] before the book was published [13 November 1896] so as to be on sale in the Colonies at approximately the same time.

* "500 copies were issued in Canada by the Copp, Clark Co., Ltd., of Toronto, though whether from the English or American edition is uncertain."

The scarcer of the author's two books of poetry, the other being the companion volume Songs of the Road.

Companion volume to the author's Songs of Action.

G&G A1.c indicates an 1891 date on the title-page.

Originally appeared in the Windsor Magazine and subsequently included in the first edition of The Green Flag. Scarce

*One of the three was Dame Jean Conan Doyle, ACD's daughter

Neat 1909 gift inscription on ffep. Publisher's floral logo stamped in blind on spine and rear cover.

6 pp. publisher's ads at rear

Ink ownership name on ffep.

2 pp. ads at rear for The British Campaign in France and Flanders.

A very good copy of a notoriously fragile item. Presented in a custom designed folder, laid in a clamshell case with a gilt-lettered spine label.

A luxurious large folio production, with ACD's bookplate stamped in silver on front cover. Dust jacket titled "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Centenary Edition"

"Edition limited to 500 copies".
Contributions include "Holmes' [sic] College Career" by Dorothy Sayers, "The Singular Adventures of Martha Hudson" by Vincent Starrett and "The Mystery of Mycroft" by Ronald A. Knox.
Laid in is the publisher's review slip, indicating the publication date of 26th July, 1934.

Also contains the illustrated poem "An Alpine Walk" by ACD (G&G p. 401). Scarce.

"A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story as Revealed by the 106 Most Important Books Published in this Field since 1845".

The opening sentence of chapter 1 "This is the story of one of the strangest friendships in history." Despite their differences, ACD and Houdini respected each other greatly.

NB: Because of its fragility, the photo of the dust jacket was taken with the protective mylar in place.

Contains "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes", the opening lines of which read "If there is anything pleasant in life, it is doing what we aren't meant to do." This sets the tone of one of the the earliest pieces of Sherlockian scholarship (originally published in The Blue Book, Oxford 1912.)

One of the earliest biographies of ACD. Nicely illustrated from photographs, and with an epilogue by Lady Conan Doyle.

A stunning catalogue of the exhibition of 221 objects "From the [fabled] Collection of Glen S. Miranker". Contains facsimiles of Conan Doyle's manuscripts, images of Sidney Paget's illustrations, and a plethora of other Sherlockian related items. A must for collectors!

The rear panel of the dust jacket contains "The Adventure of the F.W.L.: Being a reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D." complete.

Contains "Studies in Sherlock Holmes", including 'Holmes' [sic] College Career', 'Dr. Watson's Christian Name', 'The Dates in The Red-Headed League' and 'Aristotle on Detective Fiction').

Contains 'How I Write my Books', 'The Book I most Enjoyed Writing' and 'The Greatest Hymns', all by ACD. Other contributors include Bernard Shaw, P.G. Wodehouse, Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett, G.K. Chesterton, Jack London and H.G. Wells.
H. Greenhough Smith was the Editor of The Strand Magazine, who encouraged ACD to write the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Autograph letters laid in!

Contains several references to ACD, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
Laid in are two 3-page autograph letters signed from Starrett, regarding his other books (no Sherlockian or Doylean content).

Contains Starrett's Sherlockian parodies "The Adventure of the Cat and the Fiddle" and "The Adventure of the Empty Cupboard", as well as two Alice in Wonderland related parodies.
The title is taken from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.