Marshall Rare Books
The Stark Munro Letters
FIRST EDITION, illustrated frontispiece, tissue guard, title vignette, 24pp advertisements dated July 1895, publishers dark grey cloth, title gilt on spine and top board, 8vo, London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1896
FIRST EDITION, illustrated frontispiece, tissue guard, title vignette, 24pp advertisements dated July 1895, publishers dark grey cloth, title gilt on spine and top board, 8vo, London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1896
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) famous for his creation of Sherlock Holmes. A prolific writer, his works include detective fiction, fantasy and science fiction, spiritualism, plays, poetry, romance and history.
The Stark Munro Letters were originally published in parts in The Idler between October 1894 and November 1895. Written as a series of twelve letters, the work is a thinly disguised account of Conan-Doyle’s own experiences during his early years as a doctor. Dr. George Turnavine Budd, who inspired Dr. Cullingworth in the novel, was the unscrupulous doctor he was in partnership with in Plymouth. In The Stark Munro Letters Conan Doyle gives a vivid account forty years after the short but dramatic stint. The final note on the death of Mr. Munro and his wife in a train accident was edited out by Doyle in later editions.
