[SHERLOCKIANA]. A group of 3 Sherlock Holmes parodies.
Including: [QUEEN, Ellery (pseudonym for Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, editors]. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1944. 8vo. With intertextual frontispiece illustration, ads for Ellery Queen books inserted at front. Publisher’s full black cloth, front board and spine stamped in red (spine a bit sunned and rubbed, some rubbing, soiling to boards); publisher’s printed dust jacket (numerous tape repairs to verso, spine sunned, worn, and chipped, boards edgeworn, chipped, soiled, with several short creased tears). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY ONE OF THE “ELLERY QUEEN” WRITERS, FREDERIC DANNAY ON THE TITLE-PAGE: “”Ellery Queen” (Frederic Dannay)”. -- Another copy. Library binding of full orange cloth, front board and spine stamped in blue (spine toned, binding rubbed and soiled, endleaves soiled, library pocket on rear pastedown and library stamp on title-page, and a few occasional ink-stamps throughout). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. From the Dallas Public Library. -- KURAS, Julie M., et al. The Missing Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Minneapolis: The Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota, 2016. 8vo. Publisher’s printed wrappers (upper corner of wrappers and text bumped). FIRST EDITION.