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[DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930), contributor]. Ghost Stories and Presentiments. London: [Richard Clay and Sons for] George Redway, n.d. [1888].
8vo. 12 pp. publisher’s ads at end. Original publisher’s gilt-lettered pictorial blue cloth stamped in maroon, brown coated endpapers (spine a bit sunned with some spotting, pale spotting to lower cover, else fine).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, originally published by Redway in 1887 as a triple-decker entitled Dreamland and Ghostland. Because of poor sales the stories were reissued the following year as individual volumes with new bindings and canceled title pages. Ghost Stories and Presentiments was the third volume in the set and includes five of the six Doyle short stories found in that collection: The Great Keinplatz Experiment; The Mystery of Sasassa Valley; The Captain of the Pole-Star; and John Barrington Cowles. The publication of these stories in book form by Doyle in 1887 predates the publication of his first book A Study in Scarlet making these THE AUTHOR’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM. Sadleir 741 (1887 edition).