Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859  -  1930) Doil´, Konan	Prikliucheniia syshchika Sherloka Kholmsa. Pereveli N. N. Mazureno i G.A. Charskii. S 65 risunkami. Izdanie vtoroe. 3-ia seriia. Spb., Izdanie V.I. Gubinskago, [1903 or 1904] 366 p., 65 ills.	€500

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8 vo, publisher´s wrs. skilfully repaired with acid - free paper at Christina Finnberg´s workshop (Malmö), traces of old tape left on a request of previous owner, loose. Boxed, with a printed label on the spine of the box. The box was produced at Grafiska museet bindery. Well preserved copy from Sven Bergstrem library with inscription in his hand on title page in Russian: 'Sven Bergstrem.Ot G-na Sadkovskago.Peterburg Suvorovskii pr.No.15'. Attractive ornamental front cover with a design typical to many of A.V. Gubinsky 'dime novel' publications. Russian designer used also a motive from a British edition, in all the probability. The edition is not known to cataloger.The same goes for all 65 illustrations through the text. Arthur Conan Doyle´s popularity in Russia was enormous.His collected works in 22 volumes were produced in 1909 - 1911.Starting from late 1920s till late 1950s practically no reissued appeared in the USSR.All early editions became very rare, due to the fact that they were simply read into pulp. Up to 1980s all early editions of Doyle´s were still treasured by his fans.Very high prices were paid for earliereditions, despite the fact that his 'Collected Works' in eight volumes were produced in the USSR in 1966. Not in BL, RNB (1971), NYPL, BPL See: Zarubezhnye pisateli.Biobibliograficheskii Slovar´[...] Vol.1, p.291-293; Tracy, J. The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana (1978); Brooks, Jeffrey When Russia Learned to Read : Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 [...]