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Also available from: Amazon USA Book Depository Amazon UK Sherlock Holmes is a Yorkshireman, born and brought up on the North York Moors, but he spent much of his life at 221B Baker Street in London. Read all the Latest News, Breaking News and Coronavirus News here. Assuming you mean only by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes appeared in four novels, A Study In Scarlett, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and. Sherlock Holmes - A Yorkshireman in Baker Street is available on this site with a going to our good causes. “Therefore, not many pages have survived, and of those, few are in this condition, making this important piece of literature a must-have rarity for serious collectors,” said Palomino. This made the paper more vulnerable to deteriorate quickly than many other types of papers. In the Gyles Brandreth books, where Oscar is a detective, his friend Sir Arthur Conan.
Palomino added that the manuscript was written on paper that was popular at the time but also was very acidic in its chemical composition. Robert Morley and Stephen Fry have played Oscar Wilde and Mycroft Holmes. The publishers had asked the author for the original manuscript, and after receiving it, they divided the pages and offered them individually to dealers who purchased copies of the book. Talking about how the auction of the page came to be, Heritage Auctions Historical Manuscripts Director Sandra Palomino said in a statement that New York-based publishers of the book, McClure, Phillips & Company, began the publicity campaign in an effort to promote the book and the return of Holmes.
Hence the page being auctioned holds more value since it includes an entire scene in which Holmes discusses the mysterious murder on the moor with Watson. In a statement shared by Heritage Auctions it was mentioned that in the novel Holmes appears in less than half of the book and most of the story centers around his assistant, Dr Watson.