MOLDING THE IMAGE: William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes
Catalogue of an exhibition on the American actor's past and present influence on popular conceptions of Sherlock Holmes.
Catalogue of an exhibition on the American actor's past and present influence on popular conceptions of Sherlock Holmes.
First edition of these plays, including the Agatha Christie-an CLEVER DICK and the Holmesian SHERLOCK'S LAST CASE, by a playwright with "no great partiality for the works of A. Conan Coyle" and "no particular interest" in the detective genre.
Uncommon publication documenting the 1989 Cambridge expedition of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, with essays by Peter Horrocks, Percy Metcalfe, Catherine Cooke, and others.
Magico Magazine reprint of the scarce 1941 original pamphlet arguing that "Holmes-Pickwick is one person" who manifested himself through the passive mediumship of Dickens and Doyle.
Signed limited edition booklet, printed on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Norwegian Explorers, with signatures by both authors.
First printing of Meyer's fourth Sherlock Holmes pastiche, involving a secret society and the Orient Express in 1905.
First printing of this Sherlockian mystery, by the author of THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION and THE WEST END HORROR.
First edition of Meyer's second Sherlockian pastiche, concerning a pair of theatrical murders and cast of suspicious characters including George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde.
First edition of this uncommon selection of historically researched and literarily correct recipes for the hungry follower of Sherlock Holmes.
Rare original recording by midcentury Sherlockian scholar and entertainer James Montgomery, a wonderful oral archive of the songs that have traditionally been a significant part of Sherlockian societies.
Fourth of Montgomery's privately printed Sherlockian booklets, reprinting Claude Ralston's turn-of-the-century "Sherlock Holmes" song along with Montgomery's own assorted notes and essays.
First edition of this "trifling monograph" on the iconography of Sherlock Holmes, with addenda, reference tables, index, and illustrations — inscribed "With Best Sherlockian Wishes" by the author.
Sixth and final number of these Sherlockian booklets, an illustrated monograph on the probable model for Doyle's Birlstone Manor, distributed by Montgomery's widow following his death on November 9th.
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.
Scarce first edition of the second volume in The Baker Street Irregulars International Series, with writings from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, selected and translated by Nielsen, president of the Sherlock Holmes Klubben i Danmark.
Special issue, featuring Ronald Burt De Waal's descriptive bibliography of Sherlockian comics and cartoons, Bliss Austin's "A Study in Dust Jackets," and De Waal's essay "Holmes Away From Home."
First edition in English of Nordon's biography, originally published in France in 1964 and awarded the Prix Guizot by the Academie Française.
First edition in English of the 1933 pastiche "A Pipe of Tobacco" by the Danish humorist, cartoonist, pipe collector, and Baker Street Irregular, along with La Cour's accompanying essay, "Storm P., Pipes, and Sherlock Holmes."
First US edition of this pictorial survey of Sherlock Holmes as represented on stage, screen, popular media, and advertising imagery.
First UK edition of this historical Holmesian pastiche, by his prolific and pseudonymous fellow fictional detective Ellery Queen.
Limited edition reissue of the classic 1942 genre reference, "the first bibliography of the detective short story ever written," with a new introduction by the authors.
Uncommon issue of this quarterly publication from the Old Soldiers of Baker Street, tracking and circulating Holmes-related news items from a Kenneth Rexroth review to a medical journal's "Study in Cocaine," with many lively contemporary murders along the way.
First printing of this study of the Sherlockian canon, written under the supposition that "Doyle was not always aware of the sexual themes that did lie beyond his work."
Inscribed first printing of this scarce Sherlockian collection.
Limited first edition of the sixteenth Christmas Annual from The Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota, printed for NEM members and attendees of The Baker Street Irregulars annual celebrations.