Desirable first edition Sherlock Holmes book: The Valley of Fear by A. Conan Doyle. First edition. NY: George H. Doran Company, 1914. Hardcover bound in red cloth with gilt lettering, 5.5 x 8, 320 pages. Book condition: VG/None, with a light band of toning across the top of the front board, and foxing to the frontispiece and title page. The fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, this first American edition preceded the British printing by three months.
