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Hardcover, octavo size volume bound in full black leather, heavily decorated in gilt. Raised spine hubs. Smyth-sewn binding with 22kt gold accents, archival-quality acid-neutral paper, page edges gilded on three sides, moire fabric end-sheets and a satin-ribbon place marker mark this as a quality edition, one of Easton Press’s Collector’s Edition of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Contains the definitive text corrected and edited by Edgar A. Smith. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget, et alia. First edition thus. Includes a Study in Scarlet; the Sign of the Four; the twelve adventures originally published as “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”; and the twelve adventures originally published as “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”. A pristine copy. No marks, writing or wear. An unread copy, clean, square and unmarked in as new condition. Fine. Scans sent on request.