THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS
First printing of these three collected adventures of the sub-Sherlockian detective Solar Pons.
First printing of these three collected adventures of the sub-Sherlockian detective Solar Pons.
First edition of Doyle's selected essays and articles on assorted mysteries and psychic phenomena.
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."
First printing of the fourth volume of Derleth's Sherlock Holmes pastiches, with an introduction by Anthony Boucher and chronology by Robert Pattrick.
Signed first printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
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 printing in book form (in a later, married jacket) of this great Chicago murder tale by the great Chicagoan.
First printing of the author's first novel, an account of Holmes's drug-dreamy investigation into the Ripper murders.
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 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.
Inscribed first printing of this scarce Sherlockian collection.
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
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.
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.
First printing of this study of the Sherlockian canon, written under the supposition that "Doyle was not always aware of the sexual themes that did lie beyond his work."
First printing of Thomson's earnest literary study of the close friendship carried on by Watson and Holmes and the dark psychological drives that lay beneath.
First US edition of these collected detective stories, with a nine-page miniature Sherlock Holmes pastiche embedded in the author's introduction.
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.
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.
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.
Signed first edition of this comic historical mystery, in which Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to solve a crime.
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.