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The Adventure of the Dying Detective and The Horror of the Heights and How it Happened and The Poison Belt Chapter 6 and To the South Pole: Captain Scott's Own Story and Back to Back and Keeping Watch and The Weaker Vessel and Bits of Life and The Journal of Aura Lovel and Keeping it from Harold and The Torch and Wet Magic in The Strand Magazine. Volume 46 complete

Best.-Nr. 72649 — London: George Newnes July to December 1913. Literary Magazine FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo 24 x 18cm pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white and occasional dichromatic illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers all edges speckled red white endpapers. Contents clean a few light reading marks extremities rubbed minor discolouration to spine. Very good. An important volume of the Strand Magazine including this famous Sherlock Holmes short story which did not appear in a book-form edition for a further four years His Last Bow 1917. Also contains excerpts from Captain Scott's diaries which later appeared in full in 'Scott's Last Expedition' 1913 an early contribution from Wodehouse and numerous short pieces by various authors. London: George Newnes, July to December 1913 unknown