Doyle's Medieval Romance "The White Company," Scarce Edition, 1897.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The White Company. New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., 1897. First Edition thus. First H.M. Caldwell issue. Octavo (8vo). 362 pp. Original green ribbed silk binding stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Illustrated with photographic frontispiece and six full-page plates.

Internally clean and fresh, with a former ownership marking to the rear endpaper. The decorative ribbed silk binding remains near fine, with only light shelf wear and minor rubbing.

The White Company was issued as part of the Neyam Library and Caldwell’s Illustrated Library of Famous Books. Doyle’s celebrated medieval romance, set amid the campaigns of the Black Prince and featuring Sir Nigel and the Free Companies of the fourteenth century. See Green & Gibson, Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle, 595.

A Near Fine copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's medieval chivalric romance.

[Attributes: First Edition thus; Illustrated; Hard Cover]