R. F. Fenno & Co.

The Mystery of Cloomber Lenox series No. 22 (1896-1898)

R. F. Fenno & Co. was an American publishing book company based in New York, founded in 1885 by Robert F. Fenno. By the turn of the century the firm was in financial trouble and between 1903 and 1905 was managed by a committee of its creditors. Robert F. Fenno retired from the firm in 1929. It was continued by his associates under the name of Diehl, Landau and Pettit.

Known addresses :

• 1885-1896 : 112 Fifth Avenue
• 1898-1903 : 9 & 11 East 16th Street
• 1906-1912 : 18 East 17th Street

Between 1896 and 1906, the company published at least 6 novels and 16 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Conan Doyle published by R. F. Fenno

1896

Lenox series (25 cents)

• The White Company
• No.22 : The Mystery of Cloomber
• My Friend the Murderer
• Micah Clarke
• The Firm of Girdlestone
• The Captain of the Pole Star
• Strange Secrets

Fenno's Illustrated series / Fenno's Select series (50 cents)

• The Firm of Girdlestone (10 illustrations by Harry C. Edwards)
• Strange Secrets

Summer series (25 cents)

• The Captain of the Pole Star
• The Firm of Girdlestone
• Micah Clarke
• My Friend the Murderer
• The Mystery of Cloomber
• The White Company
• Strange Secrets

Victor series (25 cents)

• Strange Secrets

1897-1898

Columbia series (25 cents)

• No. 5 : The White Company
• Micah Clarke
• The Firm of Girdlestone
• The Captain of the Pole Star
• The Mystery of Cloomber
• Strange Secrets

1899

Advertisement for The Wedgwood series in The Chicago Tribune (12 november 1899, p. 32)

The Wedgwood series (25 cents, boxed set $3) / Crown Derby series (set $3.25)

• No. 38 : The White Company
• No. 39 : Micah Clarke
• No. 40 : The Firm of Girdlestone
• No. 41 : The Captain of the Pole Star
• No. 42 : The Mystery of Cloomber
• No. 43 : Strange Secrets

1903

Special Limited Edition

• Sherlock Holmes
• Original Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (8 ill.)

1906

• The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (50 cents)
• Strange Secrets

Covers

• 
  The Mystery of Cloomber Lenox series No. 22 (1896-1898)
• 
  Strange Secrets (1895~1899)
• 
  The Firm of Girdlestone Illustrated series (1896)
• 
  Strange Secrets Wedgwood series (1899)
• 
  The White Company Wedgwood series (1899)
• 
  The Mystery of Cloomber Wedgwood series (1899)
• 
  Original Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1903)
• 
  The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (1906)

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