ESCAPADE
(1995)
Signed first edition of this comic historical mystery, in which Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to solve a crime.
Sherlockiana
SUPER JOYAS DE A. CONAN DOYLE
(1984)
Spanish comic-book adaptation of an astonishingly condensed Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, The White Company, and three Sherlock Holmes stories: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Musgrave Ritual, and The Adventure of the Crooked Man.
CONAN DOYLE'S BEST BOOKS
[circa 1904]
Uncommon complete three-volume set of this attractive illustrated "Sherlock Holmes Edition," with a straight pipe-smoking Holmes pictorial cloth binding design.
THE WEST END HORROR
(1976)
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.
BLOOD ON BAKER STREET
(1940)
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.
THE REVELATIONS OF INSPECTOR MORGAN
1907
First US edition of these collected detective stories, with a nine-page miniature Sherlock Holmes pastiche embedded in the author's introduction.
THE ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1986)
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.
THE BEST ENGLISH DETECTIVE STORIES OF 1928
1929
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.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S "SHERLOCK HOLMES" STORIES
(1969-1970)
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS: And Other Tales of Long Ago
[1925]
First US edition of this collection of thirteen short stories set in antique Rome and elsewhere, with one story ("The Centurion") not included in the 1922 UK edition.
THE EDGE OF THE UNKNOWN
(1930)
First edition of Doyle's selected essays and articles on assorted mysteries and psychic phenomena.
A LETTER OF MARY
(1996)
Signed first edition of King's third mystery novel starring the partners in detecting, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 HOUSE OF SILK
(2011)
First edition of the first new Sherlock Holmes novel to be officially authorized by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
