Detective Fiction
London, George Newnes, September - November 1914.
Parts 1-3 (only, of 9) in The Strand magazine. 8vo. Without advertisements. Original pictorial wrappers.
The first three parts of the first appearance of the fourth & final Sherlock Holmes novel.
Detective Fiction
a mystery London, Cassell, 1945.First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.One of Gerald Heard's key works of fiction under (in the US) his crime-writing pseudonym H.F. Heard, sitting alongside the Mycroft Holmes novels and The Great Fog in blending mystery with philosophical and psychological unease; it was lauded in contemporary reviews, including the New York Times, as a 'psychological horror story…of spine-tingling originality and excellence.'
Detective Fiction
London, Newnes, n.d..
'Newnes' Sixpenny Copyright Novels' edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
An uncommon wrappered edition of Doyle's Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Detective Fiction
London, Newnes, n.d. [c.1903].
8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled internally.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate a missing treasure, a secret pact from colonial India, a one-legged man, and a mysterious islander. An attractive and uncommon wrappered edition.
Detective Fiction
Detective Stories
New York, Murray Book Corporation, 1930.
'New Edition'. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket.
An intriguingly supernatural themed jacket elevates this omnibus of Holmes stories.
Detective Fiction
London, Newnes, 1902.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth blocked in elaborate gilt to upper cover and spine, with inset black silhouette of the Hound to upper cover. With custom made morocco-backed cloth drop back box.
Without doubt one of the most thrilling and atmospheric adventures of everybody's favourite consulting detective, a glorious blend of goth pseudo supernatural and definitive Holmesian deductive scene stealing, The Hound of the Baskervilles exists very much in a realm of its own.
The novel, the third of four featuring Holmes, was the first tale to be published after Doyle threw his most notable creation off a waterfall, and its considerable commercial success was really the catalyst for Holmes' triumphal return to life. With more plots than Varney the Vampire (actually five in all, including red herrings...so we're exaggerating, because everyone knows Varney has about 750), it seems very much a harking back to the Victorian style of creeper, very Le Fanu or Wilkie Collins, with its diary entries, and letters, unearthed manuscript and doom laden portents uttered by gloomy locals staring out of windows overlooking marsh land. It's glorious and deeply enjoyable, and pretty scarce in this bright, sublime condition. Easily the best copy we have ever handled.