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DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN, SIR. 1859-1930. 2 titles: 1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892. Original light blue cloth over beveled boards, cover and spine blocked and lettered in gilt and black, edges gilt. Interior quite clean, light pink spotting to lower center of upper cover, light shelfwear. Provenance: Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown (Mawson, Swan and Morgan/ Newcastle near Tyne); Norman Taurog (1899-1981, Hollywood film director; sold by him to the present owner). FIRST EDITION, with "violent" for "violet" on p 317, but with the street name "Southampton Street" visible on the sign to the upper cover. Green and Gibson A10. 2. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1894. Royal 8vo. Original dark blue cloth over beveled boards, front board and spine lettered and blocked in black and gilt, edges gilt. Endpapers toned, light shelfwear. Provenance: W.L. Churchill, Salisbury (ownership signature to free front endpaper. and title page); Norman Taurog (1899-1981, Hollywood film director, sold by him to the present owner). FIRST EDITION of Conan Doyle's second Holmes novel. With Typed Letter Signed of Denis P.S. Conan Doyle, 1 p, 8vo, Los Angeles, August 31, 1940, to Norman Taurog, thanking him for their recent meeting, complimenting him on his fine Doyle collection, and sending him a clipped Conan Doyle signature (present here) to be inserted into one of his books, with transmittal envelope.