8vo. Half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by Sidney Paget. (Some light spotting as usual.) Original gilt- and black-stamped blue cloth, beveled edges, edges gilt (some wear, particularly to extremities, spine slightly leaned, some soiling).

FIRST EDITION of Doyle's second collection of short stories about Sherlock Holmes, preceded by the first collection, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1892. "Rarely has a character so quickly established itself on the popular imagination as did Sherlock Holmes in the latter half of 1891" (Green & Gibson A14a).