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.
Uncommon complete three-volume set of this attractive illustrated "Sherlock Holmes Edition," with a straight pipe-smoking Holmes pictorial cloth binding design.
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 edition of this detective story, twelfth in a long series of Great Detective Books written by Chicago's first police detective (and by some unknown quantity of ghostwriters, particularly on those books published by his famous agency after his death.)
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.
First US edition of these collected stories: The Maracot Deep, The Disintegration Machine, The Story of Spedegue's Dropper, and When the World Screamed.
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."
First edition of this heavily illustrated visual survey of the world's greatest detective.
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.
Original handbook of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London's 1991 Winchester Expedition, with work by Richard Lancelyn Green, Nicholas Utechin, David Stuart Davies, and several others.
Rare limited first edition edition in book form of the famed Sherlockian reference, a Shaw 100 title.
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.
Rather scarce first edition of Bangs's double pastiche of Doyle and Hornung, featuring the exploits of Raffles Holmes, offspring of both his namesakes.
