[DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)]. A group of 24 bound volumes and single issues of Sherlock Holmes stories or other serialized appearances of Doyle in The Strand Magazine and other magazines. [London and New York, 1893-1922].
8vos. Illustrated. Includes the following volumes or issues of Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine: bound volumes in original cloth (vols. IV, V, VI, XXVII) and vol. XXII, XXVI, XL in later cloth bindings - the following single issues of The Strand Magazine (vol. 23 no. 36, vol. 28 no. 133, vol. 36 no. 214, vol. 41 no. 244, vol 63 no.375). Stories include: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Silver Blaze, Cardboard Box, Yellow Face, Stockbroker’s Clerk, “Gloria Scott”, Musgrave Ritual, Reigate Squire, Crooked Man, Resident Patient, Greek Interpreter, Naval Treaty, Final Problem), Return of Sherlock Holmes (Empty House, Norwood Builder, Dancing Men, Solitary Cyclist, Priory School, Black Peter, Charles Augustus Milverton, Six Napoleons, Three Students), and Devil’s Foot, The Hound of the Baskervilles (chapters iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, xiv, xv), The Golden Pince-Nez, The Tiger of San Pedro (part II of Wisteria Lodge), part II of The Red Circle, part II of Thor Bridge. Other non-Holmes appearances include: Croxley Master (bound volume of The Strand Magazine, vol. XVIII), Sir Nigel (Strand Magazine excepted from vols. XXX-XXXII bound in later cloth), Round the Fire stories, Pot of Caviare, Playing with Fire, Life on a Greenland Whaler in various issues of The Strand Magazine. Tempted by the Devil in The Cosmopolitan Magazine (3 copies of the same issue), Autobiography of Napoleon Bonaparte part 7 in The Cosmopolitan Magazine, Giant Maximin in Literary Pageant Magazine (rebound, loose covers), On the Boer War (Outlook Magazine vol. 71 bound volume in later cloth). Vol. XXII of The Strand Magazine has an article, “Mr. William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes” by Harold J. Sheptone. Offered with The Strand Magazine 1891-1950 a Selective Checklist pamphlet by J. F. Whitt and eight later prints of images of Holmes in The Strand Magazine (prints approximately 11 ¾ x 8 ¼”).