LOST DIARIES
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 these collected comic "diaries" purportedly by fictional and nonfictional luminaries, including Hamlet, George Washington, Harriet Shelley, Oedipus Rex, and Sherlock Holmes.
Limited BSI edition of these classic studies in Sherlock Holmes, reproduced in facsimile by the Baker Street Irregulars and introduced by Edgar W. Smith.
Uncommon first printing of Blakeney's biography of Sherlock Holmes, a Shaw 100 title.
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.
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.
First printing of these selected exercises in logic from the Holmes canon, by mathematics professor Dorn.
The first appearance in print of this Sherlock Holmes story with a rather gruesome catalyst: a cardboard box containing severed human ears.
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.
First US edition of Doyle's historical novel, a thrilling story of boys, blacksmithing, bare-knuckle boxing, and beaux Brummel, set around the turn of the 19th century and featuring several cameos by famous Regency personages of interest.
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.
Uncommon edition of Doyle stories, illustrated with distinctive wood engravings by Musacchia.
Early printing of the only novel by actor and playwright Gillette, early and influential portrayer of Sherlock Holmes on stage and screen.
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."
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.
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.