MULTIPLYING VILLAINIES: Selected Mystery Criticism, 1942-1968
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
First paperback edition of this historical anthology of Doyle's precursors, selected from Herodotus, Voltaire, Poe, Dumas, and others.
Limited first trade edition of this collection by the fantasy giant, including an essay on Tolkien and several stories in addition to the titular novella, introduced by fellow fantasy legend Patricia C. Wrede.
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.
THE MONTHLY REVIEW, volume 85, containing an anonymous review that argues the newly published FRANKENSTEIN is unworthy of meaningful notice.
First printing of Thomson's earnest literary study of the close friendship carried on by Watson and Holmes and the dark psychological drives that lay beneath.