MULTIPLYING VILLAINIES: Selected Mystery Criticism, 1942-1968
1973
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
Sherlockiana
THE CASEBOOK OF LUCIUS LEFFING
1973
Scarce first edition of these collected cases of Lucius Leffing, psychic investigator, including sixteen tales which first appeared in assorted mystery magazines and one, "The Case of the Uncut Corpse, never before published.
ROOTS OF DETECTION: The Art of Deduction before Sherlock Holmes
(1983)
First paperback edition of this historical anthology of Doyle's precursors, selected from Herodotus, Voltaire, Poe, Dumas, and others.
THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS
1965
First printing of these collected adventures of Derleth's Sherlockian pastiches starring detective Solar Pons, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.
THE REMINISCENCES OF SOLAR PONS
1961
First printing of the fourth volume of Derleth's Sherlock Holmes pastiches, with an introduction by Anthony Boucher and chronology by Robert Pattrick.
THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS
1952
First printing of these three collected adventures of the sub-Sherlockian detective Solar Pons.
THE RETURN OF SOLAR PONS
1958
First edition of this fourth collection of Derleth's pastiche homages to Doyle, starring detective Solar Pons and his Watsonian chronicler, Dr. Lyndon Parker.
THE LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY
1978
First printing of the author's first novel, an account of Holmes's drug-dreamy investigation into the Ripper murders.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER
1974
Signed first printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
THE LIST OF 7
(1993)
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.
MORIARTY
(2008)
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.
MURDER IN BAKER STREET: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes
(2001)
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.
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: Original Stories by Eminent Mystery Writers
(1987)
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.
THE AMERICAN RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1976)
First US edition of these collected early American detective stories by Richard Harding Davis, Frederick Irving Anderson, Samuel Hopkins Adams, and others.
THE FURTHER RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1973)
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.
THE REVENGE OF THE HOUND
1987
First printing of this sequel to THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, in which Holmes uncovers a plan to overthrow the government.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1993)
Clean reprint edition of the original 1970 film novelization, adapted from the screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.
CYNOLOGICAL MR. HOLMES: Conanical Canines Considered
(1985)
First edition of Harrison's monograph on dogs, dog lore, and "dog-awareness" in the Sherlockian canon, with intriguing commentary on the conflicting imperatives of Victorian masculinity and sentimentality.
THE NOTCHED HAIRPIN
(1951)
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.
THE HOUSE OF SILK
(2011)
First edition of the first new Sherlock Holmes novel to be officially authorized by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate.
A LETTER OF MARY
(1996)
Signed first edition of King's third mystery novel starring the partners in detecting, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PECULIAR PROTOCOLS
(2019)
First printing of Meyer's fourth Sherlock Holmes pastiche, involving a secret society and the Orient Express in 1905.
THE DETECTIVE SHORT STORY: A Bibliography
1969
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.
IN BED WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1984)
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."
A QUICK SUCCESSION OF SUBJECTS: Lectures and Speeches on Sherlock Holmes
(2016)
Inscribed first printing of this scarce Sherlockian collection.
