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The Bully of Brocas Court, complete autograph manuscript

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06.10.2022 12:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 128 | The Bully of Brocas Court, complete autograph manuscript
The Bully of Brocas Court, complete autograph manuscript

Arthur Conan Doyle, c.1920-21

DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). Autograph manuscript signed twice (“A. Conan Doyle”), “The Bully of Brocas Court,” Windlesham, Crowborough, no date [c.1920-21]. [With:] The Strand Magazine. London: George Newnes, November 1921. Pp 380-388.



27 pp., 202 x 161mm, ink on lined paper, numbered in pencil in another hand, fastened with brass tack at upper left corner (some spotting and soiling, most visible on first and final pages; center crease throughout; ink a little faded in some places; final page with a little creasing and a couple short closed tears). Quarter morocco clamshell case. Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, 10 December 1993, lot 320.



Complete autograph manuscript, signed twice, of the work widely considered to be one of Doyle's best ghost stories. The macabre tale unites two of the author's great passions, boxing and Spiritualism, to create the tale of a sinister prize fighter whose physical brutality does not die. The present manuscript contains mostly minor edits, though a handful of pages include more substantial excisions and additions. For example on page nine, “the man who accosted them” has been replaced with simply “him” and the description of “a surly red face” has been expanded to include “with an ill-fitting lower lip.” On page 13, nearly twenty words have been crossed out. With a fine, bright copy of the Strand magazine, in which the story was first published.

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