Buy this book on-line PUGH, BRIAN W & SPIRING, PAUL R: : ON THE TRAIL OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: An Illustrated Devon TourUK.BRIGHTON,SUSSEX.THE BOOK GUILD LTD.,2008., ISBN 9781846241987.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject's monochrome portrait photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present,but some minor scoring to both panels and tiny indents - without penetration and without affecting the boards beneath - to front lower edges.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xivpp+1-125pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a foreword by Roger Johnson - Editor: The Sherlock Holmes Journal with b/w map of Doyle's Devon Tour to verso, author's preface,acknowledgements,4 chapters, profuse contemporary b/w scenic and auto+ biographical photographs throughout the text and the book,a select bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,a dedication and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book.
'The Hound of the Baskervilles' is without doubt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes story.It has been adapted for film,stage and television and employed the talents of some our finest actors.Similar treatment has also been afforded to another Doyle story entitled 'The Lost World' that features a character called Professor George Challenger.However,there has been comparatively little exploration of the extent to which Doyle's friends may have influenced these two stories,namely Bertram Fletcher Robinson and George Turnavine Budd respectively.That is until now.
Brian Pugh and Paul Spiring have researched their subjects exhaustively and,as well as presenting fascinating portraits of Robinson and Budd,have unearthed new information about Conan Doyle himself.Included is a detailed tour of those parts of Devon associated with the three subjects of this study,commencing in Plymouth and ending in Torquay.A substantial bibliography,invaluable to both scholars and the casual reader, completes the volume.
'On the Trail of Arthur Conan Doyle' is an important contribution to the body of research on the creator of English literature's best loved detective,and will appeal not only to aficionados of Sherlock Holmes but to all those with an interest in fiction writing,literary history or West Country studies.
An uncommon title and edition and an important and welcome addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon.
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