First edition of Nichols's collected profiles of notable figures of his day, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Ronald Knox, Rose Macaulay, P.G. Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham, and Nellie Melba, whose personal secretary he was and whose autobiography he ghostwrote.
Uncorrected proofs of the first US edition of Symons's 1979 biography, an introduction to Doyle published in celebration of the Sherlock Holmes Centennial.
First edition in English of Nordon's biography, originally published in France in 1964 and awarded the Prix Guizot by the Academie Française.
First paperback edition of this biographical study of Arthur Conan Doyle's personal similarities to his own creation.
First printing of this biography of the famed Victorian thief and criminal mastermind Adam Worth, generally believed to have been the model for Doyle's Moriarty.
First printing of this early, authorized biography of Doyle, written by an acquaintance sympathetic to his later Spiritualist convictions.
