ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First US edition. 8vo, light blue cloth over boards, with dark blue "GORDIUS NODUS" emblem on front cover. Gilt title and black lantern motif on spine. Ownership name in period cursive on ffe: "H. W. Carpenter, June 1893." All 16 plates are present. This is most likely the copy owned by American philologist and Columbia University provost William Henry Carpenter (1853-1936). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories by A. Conan Doyle, first published in October 1892. This American edition was published without "The" in the title. This edition contains two errors on page 65: "Now, if had borrowed" on line 4, and "to think of ! and I" on line 10. Some chipping to cloth at head of spine, and tiny slit to cloth at foot. Leaves moderately toned. (Inventory #: 013597)