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

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

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

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

London: George Newnes, July to December 1930. [Literary Magazine] THE PASSING OF CONAN DOYLE. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.viii; 700. Lithographically illustrated throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with black and gilt to spine, and classic 'Strand' scene in black to upper board. All edges flecked red. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown... More

London: George Newnes, March 1891. [Literary Magazine]. RARE ROYAL EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] 227-332 [4]. With a special etching by Queen Victoria showing herself with her first child, as well as the usual in-text wood engravings. In publisher's special light blue silk with titles and 'Strand' illustration to... More

London: George Newnes, 1891-1895. Large octavo, with illustrations. 10 volumes. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes of morocco-backed pebble-grained cloth, with full gilt backs, marbled edges and coloured endpapers. Some light occasional thumbing and marking within; bindings a little rubbed, minor wear to endcaps. An attractive copy in a.... More

New York, Ben Abramson 1946-7. The scarce first eight numbers (two years) of the famous journal which has been in print ever since it first appeared in 1946. Named after the original Irregulars, a group of street urchins whom Holmes would employ for a shilling a day (plus expenses), with... More

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

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

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

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

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