IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Adventures of Solar Pons
1945
First edition of this collection of Derleth's pastiche homages to Doyle, starring detective Solar Pons and his Watsonian chronicler, Dr. Lyndon Parker.
Results
Results 1 - 8 (of 8)
THE PAINFUL PREDICAMENT OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
1955
The first publication of this recovered 1905 comic "fantasy in one act" by famed American actor and author Gillette, an early and influential stage interpreter of Sherlock Holmes.
BOOKS AND BIPEDS
(1947)
First printing in book form of this collection of Starrett's literary commentary, much of it reprinted from his column in the Chicago Sunday Tribune.
THE END OF MR. GARMENT
(1932)
First printing of this Chicago-based murder mystery by Starrett, noted Sherlockian and Chicago man of letters.
ET CETERA: A Collector's Scrap-Book
1924
Limited first edition of Starrett's anthology of literary "flotsam and jetsam" that pleased his eclectic taste.
THE GREAT HOTEL MURDER
1935
First printing in book form (in a later, married jacket) of this great Chicago murder tale by the great Chicagoan.
MURDER IN PEKING
[1947]
First UK edition of Starrett's detective novel, written during his year-long stay in Beijing and a self-confessed "roman á clef with a vengeance. Friends and acquaintances made up the dramatis personae and the fictional murderer was myself."
CONFERMENT BY NEEDLE
1980
Fine press limited edition of the 1956 correspondence between Starrett and Eliot about an honorary membership in The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Chicago's scion society of the Baker Street Irregulars.
Results 1 - 8 (of 8)
