London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903. In 12 volumes. Author's Edition (First American edition-English issue), #309/1,000 numbered sets signed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 8vo. Illustrated with photogravure frontispieces and plates. Three-quarter crushed dark red morocco over red linen-covered boards, stamped in gilt, joints and extremities variously rubbed, scattered small chipping to spine ends, scattered soiling to boards, some corners worn or bumped, front board of The White Company unevenly faded; top edges gilt, other edges trimmed; scattered light spotting to text. Green & Gibson A60

A handsome signed and limited set of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collected works, including: The White Company; Micah Clarke; The Refugees; Rodney Stone; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of Four; The Great Shadow and Uncle Bernac; A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus; Tragedy of the Korosko and the Green Flag; The Stark Munro Letters and Round the Red Lamp; and The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard".

"The author considered this edition of his works to be of great importance: he revised parts, and added notes and a number of special introductions. He remarks in the preface that it had for some time been his ambition to have such a collection: 'I have never, however, desired that that edition should be complete. On the contrary, the great charm of such a new departure was that it gave me an opportunity of finally casting off what my more mature judgement told me to be unworthy and of retaining what my conscience approved...I have expended all pains in putting these books into their final form, and so I leave them.' Because of the author's friendship with Reginald Smith, he agreed to sign the thousand copies of the English issue. He was not, however, prepared to do the same for the American publisher...the English issue also has the further attraction of having two illustrations in each volume rather that one." (Green & Gibson, p. 233)