A STUDY IN SCARLET
Early US piracy of the novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world.
Early US piracy of the novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world.
The first appearance in print of this Sherlock Holmes story with a rather gruesome catalyst: a cardboard box containing severed human ears.
First publication of this essay on the bonds between two great cocaine aficionados and investigators of the human mind, based on the author's 1984 Squibb History of Psychiatry lecture delivered at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.
True first edition of acclaimed mystery, the story of an autistic boy who uncovers uncomfortable family secrets when he sets out to solve the murder of the neighbor's dog — inscribed by Haddon to the daughter of his agent, Gillon Aitken.
First edition of the imposing and useful bibliography of the canonical Holmes stories, as well as a comprehensive and well-organized assortment of other Sherlockian material.
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.
Signed first edition of this comic historical mystery, in which Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to solve a crime.
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.
Abridged edition of Boucher's THE CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS, cut down to a fraction of its former self "to speed up the story" for the reader under doctor's orders to strictly limit their daily intake of Sherlockian metafiction.
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.
First US edition of these collected detective stories, with a nine-page miniature Sherlock Holmes pastiche embedded in the author's introduction.
Scarce privately printed first editions of numbers I-II and IV-VII of Grazebrook's investigations, rebound in a single volume with two copies of Vol. II but lacking Vol. III — a Shaw 100 title.
Early reprint edition of this handy reader's guide to who's who, where's when, how's which, and what happened in the Sherlock Holmes canon.
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.
Book club edition of Gillette's own signature piece, issued by Doubleday following the play's mid-'70s stage revival, and bearing a gift inscription to noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong.
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.
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."
Inscribed monograph on Sherlock Holmes's relationship to the theatre and its various professions.
Third edition of these selected comic pieces by the Canadian humorist, notably including "An Irreducible Detective Story," whose target is an unnamed but easily identified Great Detective.
First edition of these selected literary satires on Marie Corelli, Rudyard Kipling, and others, including the case of "The Stolen Cigar Case," attributed to a tastefully redacted "A. CO––N D––LE."
Uncommon first U.S. edition of this Golden Age anthology, with an introductory essay by Knox expanding on his Rules of Detective Fiction and stories by Agatha Christie, Marie Belloc-Lowndes, Maurice Leblanc, Baroness Orczy, and others.
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.
First printing of these collected comic "diaries" purportedly by fictional and nonfictional luminaries, including Hamlet, George Washington, Harriet Shelley, Oedipus Rex, and Sherlock Holmes.
First printing of this second volume of Cushing's memoirs covering his two decades with Hammer Films, including his first appearance as Sherlock Holmes in 1959's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.