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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1897.
8vo. 12 plates; 8pp. publisher’s ads at end. Original gilt-stamped red cloth (spine sunned, also slightly skewed, hinges reinforced). Provenance: Richard Adams (1920-2016), his bookplate. Adams was an English novelist best-known for his work, Watership Down (1972), which won the annual Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for best fiction written for children or young adults.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED BY DOYLE on the title-page. Green and Gibson A21a; Sadleir 751. -- [Laid in with:] an unused color postcard (circa 1906) showing Lewis Waller as Brigadier Gerard.