Lot 43 , Doyle, Arthur Conan. The War in South Africa and works concerning the Oscar Slater case. Three volumes. (3)
° Doyle, Arthur Conan. The War in South Africa and works concerning the Oscar Slater case. Three volumes. (3) Doyle, Arthur Conan, The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, London: Smith, Elder & Co., supplied through George Newnes Ltd., 1902, original cloth; The Case of Oscar Slater, Hodder & Stoughton, New York: George H. Doran Company, copyright 1912, later green leather binding, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, edges untrimmed, original publisher’s cloth spine retained and bound in at rear; Park, William, The Truth About Oscar Slater, London: The Psychic Press, [n.d.], with an introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, original cloth and dust jacket.
Condition: War in South Africa with cloth rubbed and worn; contents toned, with some spotting, principally to endpapers. Case of Oscar Slater binding clean; contents clean. Truth About Oscar Slater with cloth faded, particularly to upper front board, and with wear and small tears to head and foot of spine; minor spotting to title page and offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket worn, with some loss and tears to extremities.
£80-120