I found a return of Sherlock Holmes book and was curious about the value but whilst googling I couldn’t find this particular one. Any help is appreciated.
Welcome to Antiquers, @Clara2022 - it's a lovely art deco version. Does that title page have some water damage? Please hang on while someone who knows more about books takes a look!
I think there must be some water damage because the first page on the inside has some red staining but the rest of the book doesn’t have any.
in about 1900, Doubleday and Walter Hines Page formed Doubleday, Page & Company. The racist but best-selling novels of Thomas Dixon Jr. (The Leopard's Spots, 1902; The Clansman, 1905) "changed a struggling publishing venture into the empire that Doubleday was to become". At the same time, Doubleday helped Dixon launch his writing career. Page and Dixon were both from North Carolina and had known each other in Raleigh.[2] In 1910, Doubleday, Page & Co. moved its operations, which included a train station, to Garden City.[3] The company purchased much of the land on the east side of Franklin Avenue, and estate homes were built for many of its executives on Fourth Street. Co-founder and Garden City resident Walter Hines Page was named Ambassador to Great Britain in 1916. In 1922 the company founded its juvenile department, the second in the nation, with May Massee as head.[4] The founder's son Nelson Doubleday joined the firm in the same year. In 1927, Doubleday, Page merged with the George H. Doran Company, creating Doubleday, Doran I CAN'T CONFIRM THIS !!! ( seeing Doubleday, Doran..... publish in 1923...)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1923, Doubleday, Doran & Co. Lambskin Library No. 30 [UK]).......... ????
I found this (different) book published by Doubleday, page and company that has the same designs on the front.
You’re right, I did more research and I found this, https://seriesofseries.owu.edu/lambskin-library/. I still can’t find a picture of the book but this is about the edition/series it goes with.
In other words, an inexpensive late edition with water damage. A good read but of little value. Debora
As a guess, perhaps the Doubleday, Doran edition was a later printing of the previous Doubleday, Page edition? The Lambskin Library was originally published in the U. S., from the story in a previous link above. Maybe there was a later printing of the entire Lambskin Library targeted to the UK? I don't really understand the citation that includes [UK], since Doubleday, Doran was an American company. Another possibility is that their citation is faulty.
Hello Clara Not a valuable book and below is a link to 1933 copies being sold in the USA and Canada https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/...tby=17&sts=t&tn=The return of Sherlock Holmes Regards Vincent