John Murray
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
John Murray is a British publishing company founded by John Murray (1745-1793) in 1768. When Arthur Conan Doyle was published between 1909 and 1930, Sir John Murray IV (1851-1928) and Sir John Murray V (1884-1967) managed the firm.
In 1917, the firm acquired his competitor Smith, Elder & Co..
Conan Doyle published by John Murray
Our African Winter (1929)
Prices follow the pattern (shilling/pence)
1909
- ---.04.1909 : By the North Sea (in The Press Album)
1917
- ---.---.1917 : The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Pocket edition 1/3)
- ---.---.1917 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Pocket edition 1/3)
- ---.---.1917 : The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (Pocket edition 1/3)
- ---.---.1917 : Arthur Conan Doyle Author's Edition (12 volumes)
- ---.10.1917 : The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- ---.10.1917 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- ---.10.1917 : The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 22.10.1917 : His Last Bow (6/-)
1918
- ---.01.1918 : Songs of Action (5/-)
- 04.12.1918 : Danger! and Other Stories (6/-)
- 04.12.1918 : Danger! and Other Stories (Murray's Imperial Library)
1919
- 16.12.1919 : The Guards Came Through and Other Poems (2/6)
1920
- 27.01.1920 : Songs of the Road (6/-)
- 17.09.1920 : Rodney Stone (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
1921
- 21.04.1921 : The White Company (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
1922
- 03.05.1922 : His Last Bow (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 13.06.1922 : The Adventures of Gerard (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 21.06.1922 : The Hound of the Baskervilles (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 28.06.1922 : Sir Nigel (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 28.06.1922 : The Sign of Four (Murray's Fiction Library)
- 12.07.1922 : Tales of the Ring and Camp (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 12.07.1922 : Tales of Pirates and Blue Water (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 12.07.1922 : Tales of Terror and Mystery (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 27.07.1922 : Tales of Twilight and the Unseen (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 27.07.1922 : Tales of Adventure and Medical Life (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 21.09.1922 : The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle (7/6)
- 02.11.1922 : Tales of Long Ago (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
1923
- 20.03.1923 : The Firm of Girdlestone (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 18.05.1923 : Micah Clarke (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- ---.11.1923 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Modern English Series School edition) frontispiece by Philip Simmonds
- 02.11.1923 : Three of Them (3/6)
1924
- 24.03.1924 : The Stark Munro Letters (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 24.03.1924 : The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 28.10.1924 : The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #1)
- 28.10.1924 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #2)
- 28.10.1924 : The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #3)
- 28.10.1924 : The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #4)
- 28.10.1924 : The White Company (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #5)
- 28.10.1924 : The Valley of Fear (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #6)
- 07.11.1924 : Sir Nigel (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #7)
- 07.11.1924 : Rodney Stone (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #8)
- 07.11.1924 : His Last Bow (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #9)
- 07.11.1924 : Tales of Pirates and Blue Water (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #10)
- 07.11.1924 : Tales of Adventure and Medical Life (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #11)
- 07.11.1924 : Tales of the Ring and Camp (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #12)
1925
- 28.08.1925 : Micah Clarke (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #13)
- 28.08.1925 : The Hound of the Baskervilles (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #14)
- 28.08.1925 : Adventures of Gerard (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #15)
- 28.08.1925 : The Sign of Four (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #16)
- 25.09.1925 : The Tragedy of the Korosko (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #17)
- 25.09.1925 : The Refugees (Murray's Thin Paper Edition #18)
1926
- 10.03.1926 : The Valley of Fear (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
1927
- 27.01.1927 : Songs of Action (6/-)
- 16.06.1927 : The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (7/6)
- 16.06.1927 : The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Murray's Imperial Library)
1928
- 28.06.1928 : The Sign of Four (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 14.09.1928 : The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 15.10.1928 : Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Short Stories (7/6)
- 15.10.1928 : Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Short Stories (Murray's Imperial Library)
1929
- ---.---.1929 : The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Cheap Brown edition 3/6)
- 03.05.1929 : Uncle Bernac (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 17.05.1929 : Danger! and Other Stories (Cheap or Brown edition 3/6)
- 12.06.1929 : The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
- 26.06.1929 : The Conan Doyle Stories (7/6)
- 26.06.1929 : The Conan Doyle Stories (Murray's Imperial Library)
- 29.07.1929 : The Maracot Deep and Other Stories (7/6)
- 29.07.1929 : The Maracot Deep and Other Stories (Murray's Imperial Library)
- 09.09.1929 : Our African Winter (7/6)
- 09.09.1929 : Our African Winter (Murray's Imperial Library)
- 14.09.1929 : Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Long Stories (7/6)
- 14.09.1929 : Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Long Stories (Murray's Imperial Library)
1930
- ---.---.1930 : The Maracot Deep and Other Stories (Cheap edition 3/6)
- 24.06.1930 : The Edge of the Unknown (7/6)
- 24.06.1930 : The Edge of the Unknown (Murray's Imperial Library)
- 29.07.1930 : Memories and Adventures (7/6)
- 29.07.1930 : Memories and Adventures (Murray's Imperial Library)
1931
- ---.---.1931 : The Conan Doyle Historical Romances vol. 1 (7-9/6)
- ---.03.1931 : Danger! and Other Stories (Uniform or Brown edition 6/-)
- 11.03.1931 : The Maracot Deep and Other Stories (Murray's Fiction Library 2/-)
1932
- ---.---.1932 : The Conan Doyle Historical Romances vol. 2 (7-9/6)
- ---.06.1932 : Our African Winter (Cheap edition 2/6)
1934
- 11.11.1934 : Danger! and Other Stories (Uniform edition 3/6)
1952
- 12.08.1952 : The Professor Challenger Stories (16/-)
1956
- 05.11.1956 : The Complete Napoleonic Stories (18/-)
Prefaces/forewords by Conan Doyle
- 05.1923 : Old Offenders and a Few Old Scores, by E. W. Hornung
- 05.1924 : The Mystery of Joan of Arc, by Leon Denis
Covers
His Last Bow dustjacket (1917)
His Last Bow (1917)
His Last Bow title page (1917)
Danger! and Other Stories (1918)
Danger! and Other Stories Imperial Library (1918)
The Guards Came Through and Other Poems title page (1919)
Songs of the Road (1920)
Rodney Stone (1920)
The White Company (1921)
Adventures of Gerard (1922)
Tales of the Ring and Camp (1922)
Tales of Terror and Mystery (1922)
Three of Them (1923)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Modern English Series, 1923)
Sir Nigel (1924)
Rodney Stone (1924)
The Mystery of Joan of Arc (1924) preface by ACD
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes dustjacket (1927)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes title page (1927)
The Sign of Four (1928)
The Conan Doyle Stories (1929)
Uncle Bernac (1929)
Our African Winter (1929)
The Edge of the Unknown (1930)
Memories and Adventures (1930)
Micah Clarke (1931)
The Conan Doyle Historical Romances vol. 1 (1931)
The Conan Doyle Historical Romances vol. 2 (1932)
- ---.---.1914 : My Autobiography, by S. S. McClure
- ---.10.1931 : Arthur Conan Doyle. A Memoir, by Rev. John Lamond
- ---.---.1932 : Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction?, by T. S. Blakeney
- ---.10.1945 : The True Conan Doyle, by Adrian Conan Doyle
- ---.02.1949 : The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by John Dickson Carr
- ---.---.1954 : The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr
- ---.---.1959 : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary, 1859-1959, by P. Weil Nordon
- ---.---.1962 : The Sherlock Holmes Companion, by Michael & Mollie Hardwick
- ---.02.1964 : The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, by Michael & Mollie Hardwick
- ---.---.1966 : Conan Doyle, by Pierre Nordon
Arthur Conan Doyle. A Memoir (1931)
Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction? (1932)
The True Conan Doyle (1945)
The Man of was Sherlock Holmes (1964)
Conan Doyle (1966)
