[WYETH, N.C.] The White Company. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Pictures by N.C. Wyeth. NY: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1922. 4to, [xvi] 363pp. Maroon cloth with spine stamped in gold and color pictorial label affixed to front; t.e.g. Color pictorial endpapers; 14 color plates. Spine a bit rubbed, upper corners bumped (affecting upper corner of sheets), lower corners a tad rubbed, pictorial label a bit rubbed, gift inscription and bookplate on front endpapers, small scratch to foredge of sheets, else an internally clean copy with plates bright in original color pictorial dust jacket (general edgewear; lightly soiled; spine ends chipped; spine panel sunned, a tad soiled, and with a small puncture hole near center).

 

First Wyeth-illustrated edition. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s historical adventure set during the Hundred Years’ War is magnificently captured in Wyeth’s stunning, vibrant oil paintings. Copies of this gorgeous first edition are scarce in jacket!