Arthur Conan Doyle:
1912 Arthur Conan Doyle Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes-Skandal in Böhmen etc - livre d'occasion
1912, ISBN: 82a63d282db5be335a074bfc9e6e8b1c
A. Conan Doyle. The Adventures of a Scandal in Bohemia. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his co… Plus…
A. Conan Doyle. The Adventures of a Scandal in Bohemia. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle This is the 1912 Smith, Elder Edition Front cover and spine Further images of this book are shown below Publisher and place of publication Dimensions in inches (to the nearest quarter-inch) London: Smith, Elder & Co. 4½ inches wide x 7 inches tall Edition Length 1912 [first published 1892] 293 pages + Publisher?s advertisement Condition of covers Internal condition Original blind-stamped blue cloth, blocked in gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed and a little dull and have bowed outwards. There is a large patch of old staining on the rear cover. The spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed, particularly around the ends of the spine gutters. There are some indentations along the edges of the boards. The front inner hinge is cracked at the Title-Page (please see the image below). There are no internal markings and the text is clean throughout on tanned paper, with a few foxing spots; printed on fairly thin paper which has wrinkled. The top corners of pages 67-72 are missing (please see the images below) and some corners are creased. There is a printing fault on page 24/25 (page 25 is shown below). The edge of the text block is grubby, dust-stained and lightly foxed. The end-papers are browned and foxed (please see the final image below). Dust-jacket present? Other comments No Showing about average signs of wear for a book of this age and with some bowing of the covers but, overall, still a reasonable example of the fairly scarce Smith, Elder Edition. Illustrations, maps, etc Contents With a frontispiece by Sidney Paget Please see below for details Post & shipping information Payment options The packed weight is approximately 450 grams. Full shipping/postage information is provided in a panel at the end of this listing. Payment options : UK buyers: cheque (in GBP), debit card, credit card (Visa, MasterCard but not Amex), PayPal International buyers: credit card (Visa, MasterCard but not Amex), PayPal Full payment information is provided in a panel at the end of this listing. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Contents The Adventures of a Scandal in Bohemia The Adventure of the Red-Headed League The Adventure of a Case of Identity The Adventure of the Boscombe Valley Mystery The Adventure of Five Orange Pips The Adventure of Man with the Twisted Lip The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle The Adventure of Speckled Band The Adventure of Engineer's Thumb The Adventure of Noble Bachelor The Adventure of Beryl Coronet The Adventure of Copper Beeches The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of a Scandal in Bohemia To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion. One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had formerly been in part my own. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion. "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "Seven!" I answered. "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not tell me that you intended to go into harness." "Then, how do you know?" "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?" "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together. "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it . . . Please note: to avoid opening the book out, with the risk of damaging the spine, some of the pages were slightly raised on the inner edge when being scanned, which has resulted in some blurring to the text and a shadow on the inside edge of the final images. Colour reproduction is shown as accurately as possible but please be aware that some colours are difficult to scan and may result in a slight variation from the colour shown below to the actual colour. In line with eBay guidelines on picture sizes, some of the illustrations may be shown enlarged for greater detail and clarity. U.K. buyers: To estimate the ?packed weight? each book is first weighed and then an additional amount of 150 grams is added to allow for the packaging material (all books are securely wrapped and posted in a cardboard book-mailer). The weight of the book and packaging is then rounded up to the nearest hundred grams to arrive at the postage figure. I make no charge for packaging materials and do not seek to profit from postage and packaging. Postage can be combined for multiple purchases. Packed weight of this item : approximately 450 grams Postage and payment options to U.K. addresses: Details of the various postage options can be obtained by selecting the ?Postage and payments? option at the head of this listing (above). Payment can be made by: debit card, credit card (Visa or MasterCard, but not Amex), cheque (payable to "G Miller", please), or PayPal. Please contact me with name, address and payment details within seven days of the end of the auction; otherwise I reserve the right to cancel the auction and re-list the item. Finally, this should be an enjoyable experience for both the buyer and seller and I hope you will find me very easy to deal with, London: Smith, Elder & Co.<
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