The Sign of the Four
Subtitle: and Other Stories
Edition: Sherlock Holmes Edition
Series: Conan Doyle's Best Books in Three Volumes, Vol. II
Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son
Published: XXXX
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
Other titles: Sign of Four; Conan Doyle's Best Books Vol. II: Stories of Sherlock Holmes
Description: Vol. 2 of the 3-v. set published by Collier beginning in 1904.

T.p. in black and orange; title vignette is a small black and orange version of the front cover centerpiece portrait of Sherlock Holmes.

Five illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, including a black and orange frontispiece portrait of Sherlock Holmes, with caption "Solving a problem", and signed "Steele 03". Remaining four black and white illustrations are part of The Sign of the Four.

Contemporary blind-stamped dark gray cloth binding; Steele's portrait of Sherlock Holmes smoking a pipe stamped in black and gold, and signed by the engraver "DD", in center of upper board.
Notes: First Impression.

Spine title: Conan Doyle's Best Books Vol. II: Stories of Sherlock Holmes
Table of contents: title: THE SIGN OF THE FOUR; label: I.
title: The Science of Deduction
pagenum: 1; label: II.
title: The Statement of the Case
pagenum: 13; label: III.
title: In Quest of a Solution
pagenum: 21; label: IV.
title: The Story of the Baldheaded Man
pagenum: 28; label: V.
title: The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge
pagenum: 42; label: VI.
title: Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
pagenum: 52; label: VII.
title: The Episode of the Barrel
pagenum: 64; label: VIII.
title: The Baker Street Irregulars
pagenum: 81; label: IX.
title: A Break in the Chain
pagenum: 95; label: X.
title: The End of the Islander
pagenum: 109; label: XI.
title: The Great Agra Treasure
pagenum: 122; label: XII.
title: The Strange Story of Jonathan Small
pagenum: 130; title: ──────────; title: The Mystery of Sasassa Valley
pagenum: 167; title: The American's Tale
pagenum: 185; title: Our Derby Sweepstakes
pagenum: 197; title: A Night Among the Nihilists
pagenum: 233; title: Bones
pagenum: 252; title: Elias B. Hopkins
pagenum: 296; title: John Barrington Cowles
pagenum: 319; title: The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange
pagenum: 357; title: The Captain of the "Pole-Star"
pagenum: 384; title: J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
pagenum: 421; title: The Great Keinplatz Experiment
pagenum: 469; title: The Man from Archangel
pagenum: 494; title: That Little Square Box
pagenum: 529