Arthur Conan Doyle. The Case of Oscar Slater. George H. Doran, 1912.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. No dust jacket. Former library book. Library bookplate to front pastedown, and card pocket and checkout stamp sheet to rear endpage. Punched out lettering identifying library on title page and at bottom of page 94. Ownership signature on front free endpage, with small catalog number sticker to reverse. Some light wear to boards, with catalog number in white out at base of spine. Still a scarce Conan Doyle first edition.

Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Case of Oscar Slater. George H. Doran Co, New York, 1912.

Price: US$145.00 + shipping

Description: First American Edition. Hardcover. Oscar Slater, a German Jew, was wrongfully accused, convicted and imprisoned for a murder that he did not commit. Doyle investigated the case for over three years and ultimately published this volume. The resulting clamor lead to Slater being cleared and released in 1928. Includes a 1949 NYT obit for Slater (laid in with pH neutral envelop and no resulting offsetting. Overall, a handsome copy, sadly sans DJ. Light shelf/edge wear, light toning at spine, dampstain at tail, light wear at head, small closed split at tail, small dampstain to top fore-corner of textblock (does not penetrate to text), else tight, bright and unmarred. Grey paper boards, cream paper spine label, black ink lettering. Small 8vo. 103pp.

Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.