Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Teresa Press, 1985. [Sherlockiana] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.90. No.226 of 350 copies signed by the author. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt in printed yellow dust-wrapper. Very light and minor spotting to edges of textblock, spotting and sunning to jacket spine. Near..... More

Sauk City, AK: Mycroft and Moran, 1973. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 237; [5]. Publishers black cloth, pictorial dust-wrapper by Frank Utpatel priced $6.00. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket is fresh and bright. A fine copy, virtually as new. 4000 copies printed. The final collection of..... More

London: George Newnes, January to June, and July to December 1911. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] iv; 750 [2]; pp.iv; 800. With many photogravure illustrations and wood engravings. Publisher's cyan cloth with black titles and decoration to spines and upper, picked out in gilt..... More

London: City of Westminster Libraries, Sherlock Holmes Collection, 1987. [Literary Poster / advertising] FACSIMILE POSTER CARDS SET. Four colour reproductions of originals held in the Marylebone Library Sherlock Holmes Collection. On card, each measures 30 x 21cm. Fine, as-new, in the original stiff card envelope. Ideal for framing. Westminster Libraries..... More

New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 8th July 1893. [Detective story] 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). Subscriber ticket to front cover. Disbound or extracted from a...... More

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1908. [Mystery tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 372 [4]. With a halftone frontispiece by Andre Castaigne. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to upper board and spine, gilt illustration to upper. Advertisements to rear. Contents clean with just a few small..... More

London: George Newnes Ltd., 1892 and 1894. [Detective short stories] FIRST EDITIONS, first issues. Two volumes. Quarto (24 x 17 x 8cm), pp.[4] 317 [3]; pp.[8] 279 [1]. 'Adventures' features the misprint 'Violent Hunter' for 'Violet Hunter' p.317, l.23, and shows no street name on the sign on the front..... More

London: George Newnes, 1902. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 359 [1]. Illustrated with 16 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, by Paget. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt and black to upper, and in gilt to spine, to a design by Alfred..... More

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [6]. With a black and white frontispiece illustrated by Wiles. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Recently re-cased, with front fly-leaf cancelled, and remains of a bookplate to..... More

New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1927. [Short mysteries] FIRST EDITION, First impression (with colophon to copyright). Crown octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Original mustard cloth blocked in red (the earliest binding). No inscriptions, contents clean, some shelfwear, minor fraying to spine ends. The Final Holmes book. This is..... More

New York, March 11, 1893. [Detective story] 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 bound volume, with associated wear to the spine fold..... More

London: John Murray, 1917. [Detective Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 305; [7]. Elegantly hand-bound in burgundy morocco with twin black title labels lettered in gilt, matching cloth sides, sewn headbands, edges trimmed clean, original cloth covers preserved at rear. Contents clean, without the usual..... More

Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Co., 1890. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE TEXT. Ellery Queen's copy. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[24] adverts (dated February 1890); 147-308; [iv], 'With the Wits'; 29-52, ads. With exclusive title page and frontispiece illustration. Signed on title page as both 'Barnaby Ross' and 'Ellery Queen'..... More