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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859–1930). His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1917]. 8vo. Original red–orange cloth lettered in black; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket (discrete archival repairs at spine ends verso, old tape repairs along rear panel verso near top edge, light chipping or wear at extreme spine ends, some dust soiling on rear panel, else fine). Provenance: John Bennett Shaw (1913–1994), bookplate of the famed Sherlockian scholar and Baker Street Irregular member, known for his immense library of everything Sherlock Holmes related. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published in the same month as the first [English] edition. In the RARE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the publisher’s blurb on rear panel. Green and Gibson A40c.