The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales.

CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.

$200.00

Item Number: 131570

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911.

First edition of Doyle’s collection of seventeen short stories, which he considered his favorite among all of his works. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.

Published in an edition of 6000 copies, Arthur Conan Doyle later stated he would select this volume "if all my work were to be destroyed save only that one single section which I might elect to preserve." Featuring 'The Blighting of Captain Sharkey' and 'The Silver Mirror', the stories were later reprinted as 'Tales of Long Ago' (Green and Gibson). A35a.