MULTIPLYING VILLAINIES: Selected Mystery Criticism, 1942-1968
1973
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
Mystery
THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA
(1991)
First printing of the Armchair Detective Library edition of this thrilling Sherlock Holmes pastiche, a clean, beautiful copy.
PHILO GUBB: Correspondence School Detective
(1918)
First edition in book form of these popular comedic stories, featuring a simple midwestern man who learns detective work via a correspondence school course advertising: "We can make you the equal of Sherlock Holmes in twelve lessons."
THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS
1965
First printing of these collected adventures of Derleth's Sherlockian pastiches starring detective Solar Pons, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.
THE REMINISCENCES OF SOLAR PONS
1961
First printing of the fourth volume of Derleth's Sherlock Holmes pastiches, with an introduction by Anthony Boucher and chronology by Robert Pattrick.
THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS
1952
First printing of these three collected adventures of the sub-Sherlockian detective Solar Pons.
THE RETURN OF SOLAR PONS
1958
First edition of this fourth collection of Derleth's pastiche homages to Doyle, starring detective Solar Pons and his Watsonian chronicler, Dr. Lyndon Parker.
IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Adventures of Solar Pons
1945
First edition of this collection of Derleth's pastiche homages to Doyle, starring detective Solar Pons and his Watsonian chronicler, Dr. Lyndon Parker.
THE LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY
1978
First printing of the author's first novel, an account of Holmes's drug-dreamy investigation into the Ripper murders.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES In Original Parts
August 1901 - April 1902
The first appearance of the Gothic-tinged Sherlock Holmes novel as it original appeared in nine individual issues of the STRAND.
THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENTS FOURTH CASEBOOK
1991
First printing of this eminent scion publication, the fourth in a series begun in 1949 that includes many classics of Sherlockian scholarship.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HOLMES
1979
First printing of this thriller, in which Holmes heeds a plea from the Queen to find the killer that eludes Scotland Yard in the notorious Jekyll-Hyde case.
SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. DRACULA: The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count
(2012)
First paperback edition of this genre-crossing double pastiche, originally published in 1978 and reprinted as part of the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER
1974
First printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER
1974
Signed first printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
THE LIST OF 7
(1993)
Uncorrected bound galleys of Frost's novel, an occult murder mystery starring Arthur Conan Doyle and Madame Blavatsky, with epilogue still concealed under the sealed back cover flap.
MORIARTY
(2008)
Review copy of the third novel in Gardner's trilogy, which began with the counter-intuitively titled RETURN OF MORIARTY, continued with REVENGE OF MORIARTY, and here concludes with, simply — MORIARTY.
THE REVENGE OF MORIARTY
(1975)
First US edition of the second novel in Gardner's Sherlockian pastiche series, following THE RETURN OF MORIARTY.
THE ASTOUNDING CRIME ON TORRINGTON ROAD
1927
Early printing of the only novel by actor and playwright Gillette, early and influential portrayer of Sherlock Holmes on stage and screen.
MURDER IN BAKER STREET: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes
(2001)
Inscribed first printing of this turn-of-the-century anthology of Sherlockian short fiction by Anne Perry, Edward D. Hoch, Stuart M. Kaminsky, and others.
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: Original Stories by Eminent Mystery Writers
(1987)
First printing of this anthology of new Sherlock Holmes stories by Stephen King, Stuart Kaminsky, Lillian de la Torre, and others, published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the detective's first appearance in print.
THE AMERICAN RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1976)
First US edition of these collected early American detective stories by Richard Harding Davis, Frederick Irving Anderson, Samuel Hopkins Adams, and others.
THE FURTHER RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1973)
First US edition of Greene's third anthology of detective stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Arthur Morrison, Jacques Futrelle, and other contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF SABINA HALL
(1988)
First printing of this suspenseful pastiche set early in Holmes's career about the investigation of the suspicious death of a mining mogul in a snowbound, isolated mansion.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND
(1989)
First printing of this suspenseful Holmes and Watson pastiche about a missing jewel of royal Scotland.
