DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930), et al. A pair of Sherlock Holmes collections and three pastiches.
Including: Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories. New York: Murray, 1930. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. Publisher’s full green cloth, front board and spine stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt (spine toned, rubbed, creased, some rubbing to boards, hinges starting, ownership signature on ffep); publisher’s printed dust jacket (tape repairs to verso, spine sunned, jacket worn, chipped, soiled, with tears). REPRINT. -- His Last Bow. A Reminiscense [sic] of Sherlock Holmes. New York: A. L. Burt, [1917]. 8vo. Publisher’s full brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in black (some rubbing, soiling, creasing to binding, endleaves a bit toned, text toned, rear pastedown chipped); publisher’s printed dust jacket (tape repairs to verso, jacket spine chipped (missing nearly a quarter of the lower portion, jacket toned, worn, soiled, chipped, with several tears). REPRINT. -- DIBDIN, Michael. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story. London: Jonathan Cape, [1978]. 8vo. Publisher’s full black boards, spine lettered in gilt; publisher’s printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK. -- BOYER, Richard L. The Giant Rat of Sumatra. London: W. H. Allen, [1977]. 8vo. Publisher’s full blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (binding sunned at edges, spine a bit rubbed, text toned); publisher’s printed dust jacket (jacket toned, with some mild occasional edgewear, front flap creased). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST NOVEL. -- FARMER, Philip José. The Adventure of the Peerless Peer by John H. Watson, M. D. Boulder: The Aspen Press, 1974. 8vo. Publisher’s full red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; publisher’s printed dust jacket (minor occasional rubbing) FIRST EDITION. This story takes place before the outbreak of WWI; an English lord living in Africa, Lord Greystoke (a.k.a. Tarzan of the Apes) stops a German plot with the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.