This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... Borenture If THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB >F all the problems which have been submitted to my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... Borenture If THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB >F all the problems which have been submitted to my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details, that it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly served to weaken the effect. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the events occurred which I am now about to summarize. I had returned to civil practice, and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Street rooms, although I continually visited him, and occasionally even persuaded him to forego his Bohemian habits so far as to come and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was never weary of...
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Add this copy of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to cart. $6.00, very good condition, Sold by John McCormick rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NIAGARA FALLS, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Tokyo: Kodansha International / Kodansha English Library 6th Printing.
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1999, Tokyo: Kodansha International / Kodansha English Library 6th Printing
Publisher:
Tokyo: Kodansha International / Kodansha English Library 6th Printing
Published:
1999
Language:
English
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10890210414
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Very Good+ ----------small paperback. A Sherlock Holmes mystery. Text is in English, and appears to be for Japanese readers with some knowledge of English, as there is a note section in Japanese at the back of the book explaining some of the more complex passages in the stories. Corner crease, a VG+ copy.
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Very good. This is a facsimile reproduction ot the 1912 edition published by Smith, Elder and Co. (London). Pages are clean and unmarked, with slight tanning around the edges. Spine is slightly slanted, but the binding is firm. 1 portfolio: ill. (some col. ), ports. (some col. ), facsims.; 30 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits, Facsimiles. Title from pamphlet. Contents: 1 pamphlet. -Facsim of: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1912.
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