A STUDY IN SCARLET
Early US piracy of the novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world.
Early US piracy of the novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world.
The first appearance in print of this Sherlock Holmes story with a rather gruesome catalyst: a cardboard box containing severed human ears.
First edition of Nichols's collected profiles of notable figures of his day, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Ronald Knox, Rose Macaulay, P.G. Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham, and Nellie Melba, whose personal secretary he was and whose autobiography he ghostwrote.
Book club edition of Gillette's own signature piece, issued by Doubleday following the play's mid-'70s stage revival, and bearing a gift inscription to noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong.
First single-volume edition of Baring-Gould's annotated and indexed edition of Doyle's four novels and fifty-six short stories, extensively illustrated with maps, diagrams, photographs, and drawings by Doyle, Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, and numerous others.
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
Uncommon edition of Doyle stories, illustrated with distinctive wood engravings by Musacchia.
First edition of this collection, with a title story predicting the submarine warfare strategy of the first World War and a preface by Doyle noting its composition 18 months before that war began.
First US edition of Doyle's historical novel, a thrilling story of boys, blacksmithing, bare-knuckle boxing, and beaux Brummel, set around the turn of the 19th century and featuring several cameos by famous Regency personages of interest.
First edition of these eleven adventure, mystery, and science fiction stories, selected by Carr in celebration of Doyle's hundredth anniversary, with two Sherlock Homes inclusions: "The Man with the Twisted Lip" and "Silver Blaze."
First edition of Doyle's selected essays and articles on assorted mysteries and psychic phenomena.
First U.K. edition of this collection of childhood sketches, five of which were first published in the Strand, an exemplary example of post-Edwardian sentimentality by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
First printing of Doyle's second poetry collection, consisting of 33 narrative, philosophic, and "miscellaneous" verses.
First publication in book form of Doyle's fervent argument for the authenticity of Spiritualist mediumship, contact with the dead, poltergeist hauntings, and other phenomena investigated by the Society for Psychical Research.
First Wyeth-illustrated edition of Doyle's medieval adventure tale, in scarce original dust jacket.