The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. The Sign of Four. London, George Newnes, 1900.

A new edition of Conan Doyle’s second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes claims that his mind ‘rebels at stagnation’, when Miss Mary Morstan arrives with a new case…

The story was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in February 1890, under the title The Sign of the Four, and was released in book form in October 1890, with the title The Sign of Four. In the following British and American editions, including the present 1900 edition, the second ‘the’ of the original title was omitted.

Octavo, pp. 285; very good in contemporary half calf with grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (some light foxing, lean to spine, spine lightly sunned, extremities and boards slightly rubbed); a few pencil annotations, bookplate to front pastedown with name erased, bookseller’s stamp ‘Hatchards 187 Piccadilly’ on verso of front flyleaf.