ESCAPADE
Signed first edition of this comic historical mystery, in which Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to solve a crime.
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.
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 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.
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.
Uncommon edition of Doyle stories, illustrated with distinctive wood engravings by Musacchia.
First edition of this collection, with a title story predicting the submarine warfare strategy of the first World War and a preface by Doyle noting its composition 18 months before that war began.
Uncorrected proofs of the first US edition of Symons's 1979 biography, an introduction to Doyle published in celebration of the Sherlock Holmes Centennial.
Third volume of Dôle's revived Harry Dickson stories, following the great Jean Ray's example in melding detective fiction, horror, and parapsychological investigations in these tales of the American Sherlock Holmes.
Second installment in the New Adventures of Harry Dickson, the American Sherlock Holmes, written by Dôle following themes previously developed by Jean Ray, who (as John Flanders) wrote the most famous and fantastical Dickson pulps in the 1930s.
Harry Dickson, born in New York City circa 1890 and first described in print in Germany, rose to his greatest fame when chronicled in pulp magazines of the 1930s by the great fantasist Jean Ray; these New Adventures by Dôle carry on the tradition of the King of Detectives.
First edition of these eleven adventure, mystery, and science fiction stories, selected by Carr in celebration of Doyle's hundredth anniversary, with two Sherlock Homes inclusions: "The Man with the Twisted Lip" and "Silver Blaze."
First edition of Doyle's selected essays and articles on assorted mysteries and psychic phenomena.
Signed first edition of King's third mystery novel starring the partners in detecting, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
First U.K. edition of this collection of childhood sketches, five of which were first published in the Strand, an exemplary example of post-Edwardian sentimentality by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
First printing of Doyle's second poetry collection, consisting of 33 narrative, philosophic, and "miscellaneous" verses.
First edition of Lewis's novel, a piece of extremely Sherlockian Sherlockiana involving the fictionalized exploits of Philadelphia scion society The Sons of the Copper Beeches.
First edition in English of Nordon's biography, originally published in France in 1964 and awarded the Prix Guizot by the Academie Française.