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Sherlock Holmes Stories
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The Crown Diamond. An Evening with Sherlock Holmes. A Play in One Act.
New York, NY: Baskerette Press [The Baker Street Irregulars], 1958. FIRST EDITION in book-form, limited to 59 numbered copies (this being out-of-series). Slim octavo, unpaginated, with woodblock illustrations, two of which are printed in colour. Publisher's black quarter cloth over pink paper-covered boards with title label to upper. Internally very... More about The Crown Diamond. An Evening with Sherlock Holmes. A Play in One Act
His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray. 1917. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. v, 305 [6]. In publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. In new matching red cloth jacket with matching gilt titles to spine. A well-handled copy with guttering of front end papers slightly split. Spine faded to... More about His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vii; [1]; 306; [6 of advertisements]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper. Some foxing to preliminaries, edges toned, rear endpapers partially split along the gutter, with the binding still sound. Binding slightly bumped and worn to extremities... More about His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
The Lost World. Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Prefessor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone of the "Daily Gazette."
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. First Edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on label. Octavo. pp. vii, 319. With 5 monochrome plates featuring illustrations of dinosaurs and landscapes. Also featuring the clipped signature of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle affixed to the front pastedown. In maroon morocco leather binding of W. Perkins... More about The Lost World. Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Prefessor George E....
The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
London: George Newnes. 1905. [Detective mysteries] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8]; 403; [1]; [4] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth, simply titled in gilt to spine and upper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen further plates by Paget. Housed in a modern protective cloth wrapper. Internally nice and clean... More about The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905. [Detective fiction] First Colonial Edition. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 403; [1], imprint; [8], advertisements. With a frontispiece illustration by Sidney Paget. Publisher's pictorial light blue-green cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black to the spine and front board, 'swan' patterned endpapers. Some... More about The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
London: Longman's Colonial Library, 1905. First Colonial Edition, published simultaneously with the UK first. Octavo, pp.[viii]; 403; [1], imprint; [2], advertisements. With a frontispiece illustration by Sidney Paget. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark blue oasis morocco leather, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides, top edge gilt... More about The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1905. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, predates first UK printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.vii; 381; [1], blank. With thirteen illustrations by Charles Raymond Macauley. Publisher's black cloth pictorially blocked in yellow and tan. A curious ASSOCIATION COPY, formerly belonging to the great Sherlockian authority Vincent... More about The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of Four.
London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 283; [1], bound without advertisements. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black and gilt, neatly respined to style with Spencer Blackett's Standard Library to foot of spine, later black endpapers. With a frontispiece engraving by Charles Kerr, lacking... More about The Sign of Four
The Sign of Four.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, n.d. [1930s]. PITMAN'S SHORTHAND EDITION. Foolscap octavo, pp.170; [22], advertisements. Entitled 'New Era Edition'. Publisher's mid blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper, imprint and price of 2/6 stamped in blind. Minor rubbing; a near fine copy. More about The Sign of Four
The Sign of the Four.
Chicago, IL; M.A. Donohue and Co., no date [circa 1900s]. [Detective fiction] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.189; 42; [28]. Publisher's green cloth blocked in cream and gilt to spine and upper, decorative endpapers. With the short stories My Friend the Murderer and A Night Among the Nihilists at... More about The Sign of the Four
A Study In Scarlet, and A Case of Identity.
Chicago, IL: E.A. Weeks and Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.232. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Textblock browned. Cloth rubbed to extremities, especially to joints, corners and spine ends, some scuffs and marks. Very good. More about A Study In Scarlet, and A Case of Identity
A Study in Scarlet.
London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1893. [Detective novel] First edition to contain Dr Joseph Bell's introduction 'A Note on Sherlock Holmes'. Bell was Doyle's university lecturer in medicine and the original model for his great detective. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[xx]; 224; [12] advertisements. With several black and white in-text... More about A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet.
London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1892. [Detective novel] EARLY EDITION. Seventh printing overall, being the sixth impression as a separated book (the first appearance being within Beeton's Christmas Annual, 1887). Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[xx]; 224; [24], advertisements. With several black and white in-text and full-page illustrations. Bound in publisher's... More about A Study in Scarlet
A Study In Scarlet.
Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue and Co., no date [circa 1900s]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.159; [29]. With A Night Among the Nihilists printed without pagination at rear. Publisher's green cloth with white titles to spine and upper board. A chromolithographic illustration laid onto the upper board... More about A Study In Scarlet
A Study In Scarlet.
Chicago, IL: E.A. Weeks and Company, no date [circa 1900s]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.232. With A Case of Identity printed at the rear. Publisher's green cloth blocked to resemble a half morocco binding with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt. Cheap paper stock a.... More about A Study In Scarlet
A Study In Scarlet.
Chicago, IL: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1898. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.232. With A Case of Identity printed at the rear. Publisher's dark red cloth blocked in blind and in gilt to spine and upper, top edge gilt, title page printed in colour. Ownership to first... More about A Study In Scarlet
The Valley of Fear.
London, George Bell and Sons. 1915. First English Edition, Colonial issue. 8vo. Publisher's scarlet cloth (also issued in dark red/burgundy). Gilt titles to spine, blocked in blind to upper. A used but presentable copy with some age-toning to text block, cloth sunned to spine, frayed to joint, one crease to... More about The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear.
London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1915. First UK edition. Octavo, pp. 306, 6 pages of advertisements. Publisher's red cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and front, bottom edge untrimmed. With later red cloth protective wrapper. Some moderate spotting throughout. Slight lean to the bookblock. Covers shows quite heavy wear... More about The Valley of Fear
The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle [set of writings/novels including the Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four].
London: Smith Elder, 1903. AUTHOR'S EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, LIMITED to 1000 sets of which this No 372, SIGNED by Conan Doyle in first volume. 12 volumes. Octavo. In fact only 510 sets were issued in 1903 (randomly numbered), all being bound by Smith Elder. The dormant 490 quires were reissued... More about The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle [set of writings/novels including the Adventures & Memoirs of...
'The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It'.
London: A Star Book, 1977. [Sherlock Holmes pastiche] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Paperback (22 x 14cm), pp.128. Publisher's photographic wraps. Numerous photographic illustrations. Inscribed to the half title page by John Cleese: "Todd | Very best wishes | J. Cleese". Internally fine. Wraps lightly rubbed with a few creases. Very good... More about 'The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It'
ALS to Squire and Lady Bancroft signed by William Gillette and "Sherlock Holmes".
1902. Single sheet of plain paper dated February 11th, 1902. Hand written note to Squire Bancroft and Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft, declining a luncheon invitation due to a previous commitment. Written when Gillette was performing 'Sherlock Holmes' at the Lyceum theatre which he had written in collaboration with Arthur Conan... More about ALS to Squire and Lady Bancroft signed by William Gillette and "Sherlock Holmes"
The Sherlock Holmes Companion.
London: John Murray, 1962. [Literary Reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 232. With Paget's original illustrations from the Strand Magazine reproduced in-text. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to a pink square on the spine. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 21s. net. Bookseller's ticket to pastedown... More about The Sherlock Holmes Companion
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1964. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.92. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some light spotting to prelims and to the edges, dustwrapper is nice and bright with just some creasing along the top and bottom edges. Very good. More about The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes.
London: J. M. Dent, 1980. REVIEW COPY. Octavo, pp.xxii; [2]; 237; [3]. With publisher's compliments slip loose to prelims. In publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear; likely unread. Near fine. A prequel to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, in which Mycroft... More about Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes
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