Buy this book on-line DOYLE**, ARTHUR CONAN: : The Second SHERLOCK HOLMES Illustrated OmnibusUK.FAKENHAM,NORFOLK.NATIONWIDE BOOK SERVICE,1979. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,rpt.[1st edn thus,2nd printing by this publisher - same year as original publishers,Murray+Cape.]VG+/VG+.
Includes a Sherlock Holmes ephemera item; an opened,in-house (ABBEY NATIONAL - building society's Headquarters stationery) envelope with glassine window - no other contents,with Sherlock Holmes Centenary Baker St.,franked,dated, postmarks loosely laid in between pp156/57.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,peppermint green background and b/w letters,with b/w pictorial illustrated dw/dj - Holmes+ Watson sitting in chairs to upper wrap and facsimile cover illustration of The Strand Magazine to rear wrap.Dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing with one tiny,tiny small closed tear/nick with no loss - no other nicks/tears present.Top edge slightly dust-soiled+ spotted,fore-edge similar but slighter; contents bright,tight and clean.Clean,blue paper-covered bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and white eps with a negligible residue of off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps to both pastedowns+feps.UK,8vo HB+dw.dj,rpt, 10-388pp [paginated] includes half-title+ title pages,contents list,33 stories in 3 collections,profuse b/w contemporary illustrations by varied contemporary artists and 4pp blanks to rear.
Here is the sequel to the popular first illustrated Omnibus published in 1978. Sidney Paget who illustrated the Adventures,Memoirs,Return,and The Hound of the Baskervilles,died in January 1908.So when Conan Doyle began yet again to write Sherlock Holmes stories later that year after a gap of nearly four years,The Strand Magazine had to look around for another source of pictorial images
to accompany the vivid verbal ones which its star writer provided.The solution adopted was not to plump for one particular artist.
Instead,the seven stories published between 1908 and 1917 and then collected in His Last Bow had seven different artists.'The Valley of Fear',appearing in the early months of the War,was a long story and needed a single artist - Frank Wiles.The Case Book stories of 1921 to 1927 were shared with two exceptions between Wiles and Howard K. Elcock.There was no question of a departure from the image of Holmes that Paget had created from the features of his brother Walter (who incidentally did the drawings for 'The Dying Detective').But within the convention of the masterly brow, inquisitorial nose and commanding jaw, there are some intriguing variations of gauntness.While Watson continues to wear stick-up collars and Holmes a turned-down collar with bow-tie tucked under,the deer-stalker only reappears at the last minute in 'Shoscombe Old Place'.
It is often regretted that Sidney Paget did not live to illustrate these last nineteen short stories and 'The Valley of Fear',but it must also be acknowledged that his successors rose to the challenge both of his example and of the stories themselves.
Uncommon edition/issue,with an intriguing piece of Sherlockiana ephemera.
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