BAKER-STREET STUDIES
Limited BSI edition of these classic studies in Sherlock Holmes, reproduced in facsimile by the Baker Street Irregulars and introduced by Edgar W. Smith.
Limited BSI edition of these classic studies in Sherlock Holmes, reproduced in facsimile by the Baker Street Irregulars and introduced by Edgar W. Smith.
First printing of Benchley's collection of humorous pieces, humorously inscribed in the month of publication.
Uncommon first printing of Blakeney's biography of Sherlock Holmes, a Shaw 100 title.
First printing of these selected exercises in logic from the Holmes canon, by mathematics professor Dorn.
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.
Rare first Kiswahili translation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," sponsored by the Sherlock Holmes Society of Kenya, a scion society of The Bootmakers of Toronto.
Early printing of the only novel by actor and playwright Gillette, early and influential portrayer of Sherlock Holmes on stage and screen.
Scarce first UK edition of Heard's third murder mystery starring Mr. Mycroft, a loosely disguised Sherlock Holmes, involving the depths to which the overeducated human soul may sink when in possession of no morals and too many opinions about art.
Uncommon self-published "condensation" of a longer manuscript entitled DATING SHERLOCK HOLMES, feverishly presenting the "true solution" to a problem of Hill's own discovery, if not his own devising.
Scarce first printing of these Knoxian verses, variously Etonian, Oxonian, and Sherlockian.
First edition of Lescroart's second novel, a Sherlockian homage starring the great detective's unacknowledged son.
First printing of this Sherlockian mystery, by the author of THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION and THE WEST END HORROR.
First printing of the influential Sherlockian pastiche that laid the groundwork for the explosion of the pastiche marketplace, in which Sherlock Holmes submits to the hypnotherapeutic ministrations of Sigmund Freud.
Limited edition Aspen Press reprint of Pearson's 1914 Doyle-Dickensian pastiche, newly illustrated by Enid Schantz.
Inscribed first edition of this collection of anagrams, acrostics, rebuses, palindromes, crosswords, and quizzes of Sherlockian interest.
First printing in book form of this collection of Starrett's literary commentary, much of it reprinted from his column in the Chicago Sunday Tribune.
First printing of this Chicago-based murder mystery by Starrett, noted Sherlockian and Chicago man of letters.
Limited first edition of Starrett's anthology of literary "flotsam and jetsam" that pleased his eclectic taste.
First UK edition of Starrett's detective novel, written during his year-long stay in Beijing and a self-confessed "roman á clef with a vengeance. Friends and acquaintances made up the dramatis personae and the fictional murderer was myself."
Revised edition of the classic study of crime fiction, covering Sherlock Holmes and his predecessors and continuing through the works of 20th century writers like Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Rendell, and many others.
Scarce inscribed monograph by Wolff a few years before he became editor of the BAKER STREET JOURNAL.