Title
The Sign of Four
Coverage
Philadelphia
Publisher
P. F. Collier
Date
1891
Subject
First US book edition
Description
The Sign of Four made its first US book appearance in this 25¢ pirate imprint of Collier’s Once A Week Library, two years before Lippincott published the first authorized US book edition. The Sign is the most pirated of the Sherlock Holmes stories, in part because it was published before the 1891 US Copyright Act. In my library, there are copies of The Sign of Four published by 49 different US pirate publishers. Surely others are waiting to be found.
Source
Collier’s Once A Week Library, Vol. 2, No. 16, March 15, 1891
Format
In original printed wrappers