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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
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
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
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Memories and Adventures. [With a Sherlock Holmes Pastiche].
London: John Murray, 1930. [Autobiography] Second Edition, being the FIRST MURRAY PRINTING in the PRIMARY BINDING, revised and enlarged. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.460; [4] advertisements. Publisher's navy blue gilt-titled cloth covers ruled in blind, pale blue-green dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Colour-printed advertising brochure for 'The Edge of The Unknown'..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The House of Silk.
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.294. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half title. As new, in jacket, in titled slipcase, in original shrinkwrap. Anthony Horowitz's first Sherlock Holmes continuation novel, followed up by Moriarty in 2014..... More
The House of Silk.
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 294. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red endpapers, typographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99. Spine ends slightly pushed. Dust-jacket a little rubbed to the top and bottom of the spine and to the corners. Very..... More
The Blonde Lady: Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective. [SHERLOCK HOLMES].
New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1926. Later US Printing. Octavo. pp. 345. Containing two stories: 'The Blonde Lady', and 'The Jewish Lamp'. First published in English in 1910. UK title 'Arsène Lupin versus Holmlock Shears'. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to upper board and spine. With original..... More
Contribute to The STRAND Magazine. The first 14 volumes. Edited by George Newnes.
London: George Newnes, 1891-97. [Literary Magazine] A straight run of FOURTEEN volumes, from vol. I to XIV. Includes the first publication of several novels and stories such as Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and other adventures, plus works by Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, M.P. Shiel, Arthur Morrison and..... More
Post Card Album.
no place, no date [circa 1900-1930s]. [Sherlock Holmes] POSTCARD ALBUM. Quarto (29 x 25cm). Hardcover postcard album containing 80+ postcards relating to Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. The postcards comprise portrait photos of actors from various Sherlock Holmes films, some stage shots from the non-Sherlockian films Rodney Stone ('The..... More
The Secret Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes.
London: Constable, 1992. [Sherlockiana]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.203; [5]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Terry Pastor. The second collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches by the crime writer and erstwhile teacher, supposedly recovered from a battered tin dispatch-box deposited by Dr Watson..... More
A Double-Barrelled Detective Story.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1902. [Sherlockian Parody] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[1 of publisher's advertisements]; [5]; 180; [36 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth, titles and decoration in gilt to spine, in gilt and blind to upper board. Illustrated with seven plates by Hitchcock. Some..... More
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