[very light edgewear to covers, previous owner's name and date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of the inside back cover, otherwise unmarked; encased in a (removable) protective plastic cover]. Trade PB "The true solution to the mystery of the Marie Celeste, and the singular affair of the Duke of Connaught." View More...
[a very nice book, no discernible wear, but a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is flawless]. In 1895 London, "against a backdrop of terrorist dynamitings, a humbled [Sherlock] holmes reluctantly accept the aid of Oscar Wilde to unravel two tangled plots: the blackmail of an eminent Victorian with a name known (then and now) all over the world, and the diabolical design of a demented nobleman to inflict 'Death! Or Worse!' upon Holmes himself." View More...
[a very nice copy with no discernible wear, but a previous owner has written his name and the date & place purchased in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is in perfect, as-new condition]. (full-page B&W illustrations) "In these pages, H.P. Lovecraft lives again and Sherlock Holmes stalks New York in 1925, looking for a set of mysterious documents stolen by New York gangster Jan Martense. A visit with Harry Houdini, a seance with a beautiful medium, a trek through the New York sewer system -- and what lay beyond -- make a fascinating tale, as told through the words of young Wei... View More...
[a very nice copy with no discernible wear, the only blemish being the previous owner's initials plus the date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed by the rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is in pristine condition]. (B&W illustrations) "Following the characters created by August Derleth," herewith four new Sherlock Holmes pastiche novellas, all published for the first time in this volume: "The Adventure of the Verger's Thumb"; "The Adventure of the Phantom Face"; "Death at the Metropole"; and "The Adventure of the Callous Colonel." View More...
[a very nice copy with no discernible wear, the only blemish being the previous owner's initials plus the date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed by the rear jacket flap); the jacket itself has just a teensy bit of surface-wear to the front panel, which virtually disappears underneath a new mylar jacket cover]. (B&W illustrations) "Following the characters created by August Derleth," herewith four new Sherlock Holmes pastiche novellas: "The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire"; "The Adventure of the Cursed Curator"; "The Adventure of the Hound of He... View More...
[ex-library book with related markings (including "withdrawn" stamp on title page), remnants/scarring to both pastedowns from formerly glued-down dust jacket flaps, printed catalog card glued to recto of rear endpaper, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, tiny check-marks next to several titles in the table of contents; the jacket is much nicer than the book, with only light wear, although the lower two inches of the spine are somewhat discolored (probably from the removal of a library label), and there is some browning along the top and bottom edg... View More...
[book is tight, clean and as-new except for a previous owner's name and date & place of purchase written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket itself has just a tiny bit of soiling on the rear panel]. The final collection of Derleth's famous "Solar Pons" Sherlock Holmes pastiches that the author completed before his death in 1971. The volume contains ten stories, four of which had been previously published in various magazines, dating back to 1929. In the introduction, famed mystery fiction bibliographer Allen Hubin recounts his only meeting with Derleth, in 1970, at which tim... View More...
[gift inscription (non-authorial) plus previous owner's name and circumstances of acquisition, all in ink on front endpaper, otherwise a nice clean copy with no discernible wear; the jacket has just a touch of edgewear]. This Sherlock Holmes play, an adaptation of Conan Doyle's "The Sign of the Four," was first performed on Broadway, where it ran for 236 performances during the 1978/1979 season, with Paxton Whitehead as Holmes. Keith Michell took over the role for the subsequent London production, and when it finally made it to Los Angeles in December 1980, we got the only-in-L.A. casting of ... View More...
[spine slightly turned, minor soiling to top edge, previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment in ink on front endpaper; jacket shows some light surface wear, vertical surface-scratch at bottom of rear panel, minor wrinkling along top edge]. "This volume brings to light one of the most sensational secrets in the history of crime. Almost half a century ago, Dr. John H. Watson, lying close to death in a London hospital, composed what appears to be the final account of the career of Sherlock Holmes. Sealed in a tin dispatch box for the ensuing decades, it has been unc... View More...
[a nice copy, no significant wear to book, tiny finger-smudge on top edge of text block, previous owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is very slightly rubbed, still bright and attractive]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by editor Wright ("May the game always be afoot for you - ") on the half-title page, and by editor Hodel ("Best Mycroftian wishes") on the title page. In the vein of the considerably more successful "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," this purports to be a posthumously-uncovered memoir by the older (and "no less intelligent") brother of Sher... View More...
[a very nice copy with no discernible wear, the only bleming being the previous owner's initials and date & place of purchase, written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (hidden by the rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is in perfect condition]. SIGNED by the author on the title page (no inscription). "A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes"; the author's third novel featuring Mary Russell, who in this fictional universe is Sherlock Holmes's wife. This adventure begins with "an amateur archaeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid... View More...
[very slight handling wear, previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along fore-edge of inside rear cover]. Trade PB (B&W halftones) "Five new Sherlock Holmes stories -- the secrets of the battered despatch baox revealed." The five stories, ranging in length from 8 pages to 22 pages, are: "Houdini Holmes"; "The Missing Mandarin"; "The Deadicated Dentist"; "The Cotswold Conspiracy"; and "Omen Nemo." View More...
[nice clean copy with no discernible wear, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is flawless]. In this novel, in which Dr. Watson sets out to write a biography of the recently-deceased Great Detective, Ms. Naslund "has cunningly recreted the world of Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Watson, expanding and embroidering upon the long-familiar and beloved tropes to build an engaging, powerful narrative of her own. [The book] takes Watson -- and the reader -- through a gripping se... View More...
[nice solid copy with no discernible wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on front endpaper, plus his annotation that the book was from the private library of mystery writer John Ball); the jacket shows only light handling wear]. A Sherlock Holmes adventure centering around Andrew, a young orphan who has only just arrived in London from Cornwall, to live with a guardian he neither likes nor trusts -- and, to make this worse, is kidnapped the day after the boy's arrival in the city. But through an odd girl whose brother had been a Baker Street Irregular, Andrew meets ... View More...
[no discernible wear to book, as-new but for a former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath jacket flap); the jacket is in very nice condition, with just a bit of surface abrasion and a long vertical scratch (like a razor-cut that didn't penetrate the paper) on the rear panel]. (maps) When Holmes "returned from the dead" in 1893, he informed Dr. Watson that he had travelled for two years in Tibet and India following his encounter with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. "Nothing has been known of these missing y... View More...
[no significant wear, but with the previous owner's signature plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of title page, along with an additional handwritten note (see notes); note also that the booklet is encased in a (removable) protective clear plastic cover]. (pen and ink drawings) A separate reprint, limited to 400 copies, from Pearson's 1914 book, being a "double-barreled pastiche....presented in the guise of a paper read at a meeting of a literary 'Hell-Fire Club' whose members, like Pearson, had a special intrest in off-trail literature or 'queer' books -- such as [Charles] Dickens' u... View More...
[all books are in uniformly nice condition, nice and clean with the sole exception that each one has the former owner's name or initials plus the date & place of purchase written in ink at the top of the title page, along with an occasional brief editorial comment; additionally, each is encased in a protective plastic cover (removable if desired)]. Trade PB This is a uniform series of eight small paperback books, Sherlock Holmes adventures "written and researched" by Allen Sharp. Each is posited as "a new Sherlock Holmes story based on the notebooks and papers of John H. Watson MD" -- the co... View More...
[a very nice copy, very slight bumps to lower front and top rear corners but no other significant wear, just a one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is flawless]. "What if Sherlock Holmes, lured across the Channel by the beleaguered managers of the [Paris] Opera House, unlocks the true secrets motivating the infamous Phantom?" And thereby hangs a pastiche. View More...
[a very nice copy, no discernible wear to book, previous owner's name and date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed by the rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is in flawless condition]. Four Holmes pastiches by "one of the finest modern practitioners of the Sherlock Holmes story." In this volume: "The Adventure of The Lost Seven"; "The Adventure of The Old School Friend"; "The Adventure of The Silver Buckle"; and "The Adventure of Juniper Cottage." View More...
[nice clean copy with no discernible wear, but with a previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase written neatly in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket has a bit of wrinkling at the bottom of the rear panel]. Sherlock Holmes meets Houdini, who's making a big hit in London, but also is bedevilled by a rival magician's plotting against him. "When Houdini is framed for espionage and incarcerated, Holmes vows to clear his name." View More...
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