Paddington PressDate of 1978hard coverFirst EditionVery Good/Good8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Copyright date is 1978, 1st edition published by paddinton press, no mention of grosset and Dunlap who distributed it in the U. S., therefore must have been printed in London, cream cover over boards with gold lettering on the front and the spine, no tears or bent pages nor any writing, D/j flaps not bent with tears and light shelf wear to the edges and to the head and toe of the spine, now covered with a brodart cover, clean text with a tight binding a solid book, interior pages have light browning from age. A book of the life of Sir Arthur Conan Dole's fathers life and facsimile drawings from his uncle and from his father, a must read for Doyle followers.