Arthur Conan Doyle Author's Edition
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
The Arthur Conan Doyle Author's Edition is a series of:
- 13 volumes published in USA by D. Appleton & Co. (1903)
- 12 volumes published in UK by Smith, Elder & Co. (1903) and John Murray (reissued in 1917 but still marked 1903)
Collecting Arthur Conan Doyle's stories written between 1891 and 1903. The 13 volumes hold 12 novels and 5 collected series (61 short stories).
US edition (D. Appleton & Co.) have only 1 frontispiece in each volume.
Stories
List sorted by Smith, Elder & Co.:
- 24.09.1903 : Vol. 01 : Preface, The White Company (2 illustrations by Arthur Twidle)
- 24.09.1903 : Vol. 02 : Micah Clarke (2 ill. by Arthur Twidle)
- 24.09.1903 : Vol. 03 : The Refugees (2 ill. by Arthur Twidle)
- 24.09.1903 : Vol. 04 : Rodney Stone (2 ill. by Arthur Twidle)
- 15.10.1903 : Vol. 05 : Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2 ill. by Arthur Twidle)
- 15.10.1903 : Vol. 06 : The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (2 ill. by Arthur Twidle)
- 15.10.1903 : Vol. 07 : A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four (2 ill. by Arthur Twidle)
- Note to this Edition (1893's note by Ward, Lock & Bowden)
- Mr. Sherlock Holmes, by Dr. Joseph Bell
- A Study in Scarlet
- The Sign of Four
- 15.10.1903 : Vol. 08 : Preface, The Great Shadow and Uncle Bernac (2 ill. by Arthur Twidle)
- 16.11.1903 : Vol. 09 : Preface, A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (2 ill. by Arthur Twidle)
- 16.11.1903 : Vol. 10 : Preface, Tragedy of the Korosko and The Green Flag (1 ill. by Sidney Paget and 1 by Arthur Twidle)
- 16.11.1903 : Vol. 11 : Preface, The Stark Munro Letters and Round the Red Lamp (1 ill. by B. West Clinedinst and 1 by Arthur Twidle)
- 16.11.1903 : Vol. 12 : Preface, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (2 ill. by W. B. Wollen)
in US edition only
- Volume 13 : The Hound of the Baskervilles (2 ill. by Sidney Paget)
Editions
- Author's Edition (24 september - 16 november 1903, Smith, Elder & Co. [UK]) 12 volumes
- Author's Edition (24 september 1903, D. Appleton & Co. [US]) 13 volumes
- Author's Edition (1917, John Murray [UK]) 12 volumes