DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN. The Valley of Fear. London: Smith, Elder, 1915. 8vo, original light red cloth; pictorial dust jacket showing Sherlock Holmes (rather frayed at ends of spine and fore-corners); red half morocco slipcase. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece of Holmes. Greene & Gibson A39a (calling the cloth "pink"). Rare in dust jacket. Doyle's novel was inspired by the account of the violence of the Molly Maguires and their capture by Pinkerton operatives in the coalfields of Pennsylvania.
DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN. The Valley of Fear. London: Smith, Elder, 1915. 8vo, original light red cloth; pictorial dust jacket showing Sherlock Holmes (rather frayed at ends of spine and fore-corners); red half morocco slipcase. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece of Holmes. Greene & Gibson A39a (calling the cloth "pink"). Rare in dust jacket. Doyle's novel was inspired by the account of the violence of the Molly Maguires and their capture by Pinkerton operatives in the coalfields of Pennsylvania.
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