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Auction archive: Lot number 135

DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN. Autograph manuscript signed of the autobiographical article "Life on a Greenland Whaler." Greyswood Beeches, Haslemere, n.d. [undoubtedly 1896]. 24 pages, oblong 8vo, essentially quarto sheets separated in half (with some cut...

Auction 25.04.1995
25 Apr 1995
Estimate
US$3,500 - US$4,500
Price realised:
US$9,200
Auction archive: Lot number 135

DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN. Autograph manuscript signed of the autobiographical article "Life on a Greenland Whaler." Greyswood Beeches, Haslemere, n.d. [undoubtedly 1896]. 24 pages, oblong 8vo, essentially quarto sheets separated in half (with some cut...

Auction 25.04.1995
25 Apr 1995
Estimate
US$3,500 - US$4,500
Price realised:
US$9,200
Beschreibung:

DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN. Autograph manuscript signed of the autobiographical article "Life on a Greenland Whaler." Greyswood Beeches, Haslemere, n.d. [undoubtedly 1896]. 24 pages, oblong 8vo, essentially quarto sheets separated in half (with some cutting across of parts of letters) with slight variation in height, mostly 168 x 203mm. (6 11/16 x 8in.), in black ink on lined paper with Doyle's customary sparse revisions, each leaf tipped at left edge to a small quarto sheet, bound with portrait in black morocco, gilt-lettered, binding broken. An interesting account by Doyle of his seven month's voyage as a ship's surgeon on an Arctic seas whaler in 1880 (he was age twenty and a third year medical student). The piece first appeared in Strand Magazine , January 1897, and then in McClure's Magazine , March 1897 (the article excerpted from this magazine accompanies the manuscript); it was collected in Memories and Adventures , 1924.

Auction archive: Lot number 135
Auction:
Datum:
25 Apr 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN. Autograph manuscript signed of the autobiographical article "Life on a Greenland Whaler." Greyswood Beeches, Haslemere, n.d. [undoubtedly 1896]. 24 pages, oblong 8vo, essentially quarto sheets separated in half (with some cutting across of parts of letters) with slight variation in height, mostly 168 x 203mm. (6 11/16 x 8in.), in black ink on lined paper with Doyle's customary sparse revisions, each leaf tipped at left edge to a small quarto sheet, bound with portrait in black morocco, gilt-lettered, binding broken. An interesting account by Doyle of his seven month's voyage as a ship's surgeon on an Arctic seas whaler in 1880 (he was age twenty and a third year medical student). The piece first appeared in Strand Magazine , January 1897, and then in McClure's Magazine , March 1897 (the article excerpted from this magazine accompanies the manuscript); it was collected in Memories and Adventures , 1924.

Auction archive: Lot number 135
Auction:
Datum:
25 Apr 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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