Only Known Copy of First English Edition of The Lost World in Original Dust Jacket Leads A Study in Sherlock Part II

A huge collection of Sherlockiana and Arthur Conan Doyle items will go under the hammer next week at Potter & Potter's auction A Study in Sherlock, Part II.

The February 15 sale includes the second session of Robert Hess's Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collection following last year's successful A Study in Sherlock: The Curious Collection of Robert Hess. 

Highlights include the only known copy of the first English trade edition of Conan Doyle's The Lost World in its original dust jacket (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912, estimate $8,000 - $12,000). This depicts the famous image of Arthur Conan Doyle disguised as Professor Challenger and according to Potter is the only copy to
appear at auction. The book edition was published on October 15 1912, following the serialization in Strand Magazine earlier that April. 

Other lots include Sidney Paget's personal dressing gown (with cord and numerous moth-holes). The light brown, wool, dog-toothed, thick tweed gown was the inspiration for Paget’s illustrations of Holmes wearing a dressing gown in at least six illustrations. In 1952 to 1979, this gown was loaned by Paget’s family for display at the reconstruction of Holmes’ rooms at 221B Baker Street at The Sherlock Holmes Pub, on a partial mannequin of Holmes. There is an unverified rumor that the gown was given to Paget by Arthur Conan Doyle himself.