London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. A used copy with some shelfwear,rubbed to extremities, gilt illustration rubbed to upper, discreet owner stamp to flyleaf, inside paper joint cracked. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne... More about Hilda Wade

London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1915]. [Literary Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.160. With twelve mounted and captioned colour plates plus many other illustrations within the text. Artists include Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson and William Russell Flint. Publisher's mid-blue cloth blocked in black, scarce original dust-jacket... More about The Queen's Gift Book In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and...

London: Ward, Lock and Co., June to November 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 716. With many photogravure illustrations. Contemporary deep burgundy half calf with gilt titles to spine and dark green foliate cloth. All edges flecked red; yellow coated endpapers. Binding rubbed and worn, slightly... More about Pharos The Egyptian [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 8

London: George Newnes, 1907-8. FIRST APPEARANCES, the complete original parts for the Churchill and Futrelle books, plus three Sherlock Holmes mysteries, collected later in book-form. In three volumes, quarto. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's light blue pictorial cloth. A used but serviceable set, a little dusty and darkened, text block... More about 'My African Journey', 'Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes' and 'The Chase of the Golden Plate' [in]...

London: George Newnes, July to December 1911. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.iv; 800. With many photogravure illustrations and wood engravings. Contemporary purple leather grain cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges flecked red. Booksellers ticket to pastedown, internally clean and bright. Some dustiness to edges... More about The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 42

London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1898. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 3-716. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. Brown floral endpapers. With a PSA Book Fund bookplate to front pastedown. Some gatherings a little loose;... More about The King of the Foxes [and] The Destroyers [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume VIII

London: George Newnes, 1891-1893. Large octavo, with illustrations. 6 volumes. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes of tan half calf, gilt, with marbled sides and brown morocco title labels, edges speckled red. Some light occasional thumbing and marking within; externally fine. An attractive copy in a robust recent leather... More about Contribute [to THE STRAND MAGAZINE]; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock...

London: Methuen and Co. 1929. [Sherlockiana] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii, 208; [8]. In publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, lower edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper. Contents clean, very faint inscription to flyleaf, jacket toned to spine with a few minor chips... More about By Way of Introduction

New York, Dodd Mead and Co. 1885. First edition, 4 volumes. 8vo. All bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth. Titled and decorated in gilt to spines and front boards. All volumes clean and sharp with light wear to spine ends, pale spot to lower edge front board volume III... More about Tales From Many Sources

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1915. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo; pp.306 plus 6 pages of ads. Publisher's red cloth with gilt tiles to spine and upper. Some minor spotting, flyleaves and edges age-toned, binding shows some whelfwear, backstrip sunned; a used copy but with no major defects. The fourth and... More about The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Story. With a frontispiece by Frank Wiles

London: Chatto and Windus, 1889. [Short Stories] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Ex Libris Richard Lancelyn Green. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 336; [32]. Advertisements dated April 1889, but published June 1889. With eight wood engraved illustrations by various artists, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and... More about The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange [in] Strange Secrets, Told by Percy Fitzgerald, Florence...

New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, June 17, 1893. FIRST AMERICAN APPEARANCE of this adventure, illustrated by W.H. Hyde, which was later collected in 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. Single newspaper issue in pictorial wraps (41 x 29cm). Disbound or extracted from a hardcover with associated wear to the spine... More about Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1895. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Reigate Puzzle...

New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, February 11, 1893. FIRST AMERICAN APPEARANCE of this adventure, illustrated by W.H. Hyde, which was later collected in 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. Single newspaper issue in pictorial wraps (41 x 29cm). Disbound or extracted from a hardcover with associated wear to the spine... More about Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1917. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Yellow Face