ON CONAN DOYLE, OR, THE WHOLE ART OF STORYTELLING
First edition of this "reader's memoir" of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle from the longtime book reviewer at THE WASHINGTON POST.
First edition of this "reader's memoir" of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle from the longtime book reviewer at THE WASHINGTON POST.
Third volume of Dôle's revived Harry Dickson stories, following the great Jean Ray's example in melding detective fiction, horror, and parapsychological investigations in these tales of the American Sherlock Holmes.
Harry Dickson, born in New York City circa 1890 and first described in print in Germany, rose to his greatest fame when chronicled in pulp magazines of the 1930s by the great fantasist Jean Ray; these New Adventures by Dôle carry on the tradition of the King of Detectives.
Second installment in the New Adventures of Harry Dickson, the American Sherlock Holmes, written by Dôle following themes previously developed by Jean Ray, who (as John Flanders) wrote the most famous and fantastical Dickson pulps in the 1930s.
First printing of these selected exercises in logic from the Holmes canon, by mathematics professor Dorn.
Uncommon first edition of this tribute to Doyle's life and works, compiled by the author's son and literary executor on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
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 edition of Doyle's selected essays and articles on assorted mysteries and psychic phenomena.
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 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.
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
First printing of Doyle's second poetry collection, consisting of 33 narrative, philosophic, and "miscellaneous" verses.
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 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.
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."
Rare first Kiswahili translation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," sponsored by the Sherlock Holmes Society of Kenya, a scion society of The Bootmakers of Toronto.
Uncommon edition of Doyle stories, illustrated with distinctive wood engravings by Musacchia.
First printing of this eminent scion publication, the fourth in a series begun in 1949 that includes many classics of Sherlockian scholarship.
First edition of the scarce third volume in The Baker Street Irregulars International Series, with contributions by Richard Hughes, Arthur Williams, Kerry Murphy, Alan Olding, and others.
First printing of this thriller, in which Holmes heeds a plea from the Queen to find the killer that eludes Scotland Yard in the notorious Jekyll-Hyde case.
First paperback edition of this genre-crossing double pastiche, originally published in 1978 and reprinted as part of the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.
First edition of this illustrated "first definitive study of the detective in motion pictures," with heavy emphasis on Sherlock Holmes.
First printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
Signed first printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
First edition of Fenn's play, freely adapted from Doyle's stories, with press reviews of its first production at Theatre in the Round, Minneapolis.