{"product_id":"doyles-memories-and-adventures-the-story-behind-sherlock-holmes","title":"Doyle's Memories and Adventures: The Story Behind Sherlock Holmes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARTHUR CONAN DOYLE — MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES. First American Edition, 1924\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArthur Conan Doyle’s autobiography, including his own account of the origins of Sherlock Holmes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN (1859–1930).\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMemories and Adventures.\u003c\/em\u003e Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. First American edition. Original publisher’s cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with photographic plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1924, \u003cem\u003eMemories and Adventures\u003c\/em\u003e is Conan Doyle’s account of the life behind Sherlock Holmes: his medical education in Edinburgh, beginnings as a writer, travels, sporting life, public controversies, and the extraordinary success of the detective he had once tried to kill off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong its most interesting passages is Doyle’s account of Dr. Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh physician under whom he studied as a young medical student. Bell possessed an extraordinary ability to infer a patient’s occupation, habits, and background from minute physical details. Doyle later acknowledged that he drew upon Bell’s method when creating Sherlock Holmes, transforming clinical observation into the detective’s celebrated powers of deduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe autobiography also returns repeatedly to Holmes himself, with chapters devoted to “Of Sherlock Holmes” and “Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes.” The result is an unusual companion to the stories: Conan Doyle looking back at the experiences and personalities from which one of literature’s most recognizable characters emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s cloth with minor wear and scuffing. A very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOFFERED SEPARATELY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-final-sherlock-holmes-novel\"\u003eConan Doyle’s \u003cem\u003eThe Valley of Fear\u003c\/em\u003e, first edition, New York, 1914\u003c\/a\u003e — the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, in the true first book edition preceding the London issue of 1915.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47293031645372,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/1290804.jpg?v=1787097405","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/doyles-memories-and-adventures-the-story-behind-sherlock-holmes","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}