NMLP P-002393 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle · Ward, Lock & Co. (in Beeton's Christmas Annual) · 1887

True first appearance is in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, the first Sherlock Holmes story, in pictorial paper wrappers — exceedingly rare, with only about a dozen complete copies known

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-002393 for "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-002393, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).