Sherlock Holmes First Edition for Oxford Auction
Published April 28th, 2008
Bonhams in Oxford will auction on behalf of Oxfam on 20 May a Sherlock Holmes First Edition of a Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story by Conan Doyle. It is estimated to sell for £7,000 to £9,000.
Simon Roberts of Bonhams Books, Maps and Manuscript Department, comments: “It is extraordinary what emerges from these Oxfam shops. It is a snapshot of what people have read and collected over the past century. Some of these books have been handed in with little knowledge of their value, many I suspect have been job lots passed on to Oxfam as householders clear their bookshelves to make space available.”
Lot 67 is A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, containing also Two Original Plays for Home Performance [in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. Twenty-Eighth Season], FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by D.H. Friston and W.M.R. Quick [1887]. Estimate £7,000 - 9,000.
Other items in the sale include:
LAWRENCE (D.H.) Sons and Lovers, first edition Duckworth, 1913. Estimate £300 - 500.
SHACKLETON (ERNEST) South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, first edition, colour frontispiece and folding map, plates. American Red Cross stamps on endpapers and front fly-leaf, Taurus Collection, Heinemann, 1919. Estimate £700 - 1,000.
LEWIS (C.S.) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, first edition, illustrations and map front endpaper by Pauline Baynes, Geoffrey Bles, [1952]. Estimate £800 - 1,200.
ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, publisher’s pictorial boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998. Estimate £300 - 500.
Auction info www.bonhams.com
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