Elementary, my dear reader: £9,000 for Sherlock Holmes book
Published Date:
19 April 2008
AN OLD unwanted book dumped in a Harrogate charity shop is expected to fetch £9,000 when it goes under the hammer next month.
For the donation is the very first Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which was handed in to Oxfam.
Study in Scarlet is the star item up for auction by Bonhams in Oxford on May 20.
The find is one of a handful of items gathered from Oxfam shops around the country.
Valued at £7,000 to £9,000, the book contains Two Original Plays for Home Performance, in Beeton's Christmas Annual, 28th Season. It has the first printing of the first Sherlock Holmes story with wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by DH Friston and WMR Quick (1887).
The author introduces the detective to readers in the story first issued in Samuel Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887.
Other books include a first edition of DH Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, published by Duckworth in 1913, which could sell for between £300 and 500.
The full article contains 178 words and appears in EP Leeds First & County newspaper.
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Last Updated:
18 April 2008 3:24 PM
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Source:
EP Leeds First & County
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Location:
Leeds
