STEELE, Frederic Dorr (1873-1944). The Adventure of the Missing Hatrack. Collected in The Player’s Book, A Half-Century of Fact, Feeling, Fun and Folklore. New York: The Players, 1938.
8vo. Illustrated. Publisher’s full blue cloth, boards elaborately stamped in blind, spine stamped in gilt (spine toned and slightly worn, some edgewear, rubbing to boards, endleaves a bit foxed, skewed). FIRST APPEARANCE OF A RARE HOLMES PASTICHE WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY ARTIST FREDERIC DORR STEELE (story appears on pp. 189-195).
[Together with:] 2 booklets about Steele, including: The Frederic Dorr Steele Memorial Collection (1987) and The Other Master, Frederic Dorr Steele (1984). Both are illustrated (some rubbing, bumping). Steele was the premiere American Sherlock Holmes illustrator, illustrating Holmes for dozens of magazine and book appearances. He based his depiction of Holmes on actor William Gillette.