Title
1917 Handy Catalogue of Books
Coverage
Philadelphia
Publisher
John Wanamaker,
Date
1917
Subject
Conan Doyle listed among copyrighted authors
Description
There are suggestions in Wanamaker’s 240-page 1917 catalogue of Conan Doyle’s emergence from two decades of depredations at the hands of pirate publishers. Piracies did persist, with 50¢ editions of A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, and The White Company in Wanamaker’s Best Books by Best Authors section, along with 25¢ volumes of The Sign of the Four and The White Company. But three of his titles appear among the Popular Copyright Novels: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, and The Lost World, all priced at 60¢.
Format
In original printed wrappers