First printing of James's collected essays on the genre and its great practitioners, signed by the author aboard the Queen Mary II transatlantic cruise liner en route from Southampton to Brooklyn in 2010.

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."

First edition of these collected essays and criticism by Catherine Cooke, Richard Lancelyn Green, Owen Dudley Edwards, and others, the first of the series "The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes" published under the general editorship of Christopher and Barbara Roden.

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.