MULTIPLYING VILLAINIES: Selected Mystery Criticism, 1942-1968
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
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 paperback edition of this historical anthology of Doyle's precursors, selected from Herodotus, Voltaire, Poe, Dumas, and others.
First US edition of these collected detective stories, with a nine-page miniature Sherlock Holmes pastiche embedded in the author's introduction.
First printing of the fourth volume of Derleth's Sherlock Holmes pastiches, with an introduction by Anthony Boucher and chronology by Robert Pattrick.
First printing of these three collected adventures of the sub-Sherlockian detective Solar Pons.
First printing of the author's first novel, an account of Holmes's drug-dreamy investigation into the Ripper murders.
First edition of Doyle's selected essays and articles on assorted mysteries and psychic phenomena.
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
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.
Signed first printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First US edition of these collected early American detective stories by Richard Harding Davis, Frederick Irving Anderson, Samuel Hopkins Adams, and others.
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.
First printing of this sequel to THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, in which Holmes uncovers a plan to overthrow the government.
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.
First edition of the first new Sherlock Holmes novel to be officially authorized by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate.
Signed first edition of King's third mystery novel starring the partners in detecting, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
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 Meyer's fourth Sherlock Holmes pastiche, involving a secret society and the Orient Express in 1905.
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.
Limited edition reissue of the classic 1942 genre reference, "the first bibliography of the detective short story ever written," with a new introduction by the authors.