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*A CONAN DOYLE ON STAGE 1899: RARE SAM BERNARD AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT*
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He played A. Conan Doyle on the Broadway stage in the famous 1899 play featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, The Man in the Moon. A rare original autograph sentiment of Sam Bernard. Dimensions three and a half by two and a quarter inches. Light wear otherwise good. See the story of Sherlock Holmes below.Shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Inquiries always welcome. Please visit my other eBay items for more early theatre, opera, dance, film, magic, and historical autographs, photographs, programs and broadsides and great actor and actress cabinet photos and CDV's.
From Wikipedia:
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A London-based "consulting detective" whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science to solve difficult cases.
Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.
All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" and "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"), and two others are written in the third person ("The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" and "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, include long intervals of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.