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New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edge foxing; jacket price-clippped . with superficial slice back panel.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Heretofore unpublished letters and papers concerning a singular collaboration between Theodore Roosevelt and Sherlock Holmes. ; 8.2 X 5.6 X 0.7 inches; 190 pages .

New York: Crown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book is straight and tight with edge . foxing; some soiling to paper jacket.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Amid the drugs and cult mysticism of the Edwardian underworld, Sherlock Holmes encounters the world's most evil genius and his plan to destroy western civilization. ; 9.25 x 6 x 0.75 inches; 156 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Learning that a presumed-dead killer is alive and keeping a hostage, Sherlock Holmes sets out across multiple continents accompanied by Irish saloon keeper Shadwell Rafferty, but finds the case complicated by someone who is impersonating him. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 340 pages .

New York: Hawthorn Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slight lean, edge foxing; aged . appearance to jacket.. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1875 a strange party of Americans visits Whitehall on suspicious business. Shortly thereafter, a shooting takes place and one of the Americans is injured. A mysterious stranger makes a threatening appearance at the door of British government. What does it all mean and where will it lead? That's for Mycroft Holmes, with the aid of his younger brother Sherlock, to find out. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.1 inches; 237 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Fine in Fine dust jacket; 2004 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Fine book in . like jacket.. 2004. First American Edition. Hardcover. In deep retirment in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African Gray parrot, who spouts out mysterious strings of German numbers. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 131 pages .

New York: Mulholland Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Edges are toned.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. London, 1890. 221B Baker Street. A fine arts dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes to beg for his help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who followed him all the way from America. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.1 inches; 294 pages .

New York: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edge foxing but interior clean and . bright; small tear top edge back panel.. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. From editor's note: The Memoirs...cover the ten years from 1881, when Mr. Holmes first met Dr. Watson in the Pathological Laboratory of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, until 1891, when Mr. Holmes "disappeared" for nearly three years, in that personal effacement that Sherlockian scholars call "The Great Hiatus". ; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 296 pages .

New York: Carroll & Graf. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Commissioned by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Caleb Carr. The tale begins when Sherlock Holmes reveals to Dr. Watson an encryped telegraph he has received from his brother Mycroft. The famous detective has been summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 266 pages .

New York: Carroll & Graf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight lean; faint small blue mark top . edge.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of short stories by 11 outstanding contmporary mystery writers, including Anne Perry, Bill Crider, and Loren D. Estleman. ; 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.9 inches; 288 pages .

New York: Bantam Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Red dot bottom edge book; minor edge . wrinkling, tiny tear top edge back panel jacket.. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The key to Russell’s sacrifice lies in Mrs. Hudson’s past. To uncover the truth, a frantic Sherlock Holmes must put aside his anguish and push deep into his housekeeper’s secrets—to a time before her disguise was assumed, before her crimes were buried away. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 359 pages .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Light fading to board top, foxing to . edges but pages clean and bright; jacket toned with small tears and spots.. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. An analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle and his most beloved character. Mr. Rosenber reveals Doyle as a brilliant allegorist who in his Holmes mysteries, left "purloined letter" allusions not only to charcters throughout literature, but to real-life figures as well. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 203 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket has small spot on the blind . side, crease back flap corner.. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Dr. Watson, this great adventurer in life and love, is revealed in this autobiography to be the worthiest compainion to offset the genius of Holmes. Their momentous meeting, which ends the book, seens a natural conclusion. (All of Watson's memoirs have been checked against accepted Sherlockian scholarship and have the approval of Dame Jean Conan Doyle. ) ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 298 pages .

New York: Otto Penzler Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light top edge foxing; crinkle bottom . edge back panel jacket.. 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Over half a century ago, the contents of a battered tin dispatch box labeled "John H. Watson, MD, late Indian Army" amazed its new owner. For the papers contained therin were nothing less than full documentation of previously unknown cases solved by Sherlock Holmes. ; 8.75 x 6 x 0.75 inches; 203 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; By John H. Watson, MD. Appears unread.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. American railroad magnate James J. Hill summons Sherlock Holmes to Minnesota to save the Great Northern Railroad and Hill himself from the threats of 'The Red Demon'. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 318 pages .

New York: Bramhall House (Crown). Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; First printing of this reprint . edition. Pages uniformly toned.. 1962. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. This indispensable Companion brings together all the ingredients - a Who's Who, story plots, biographies of Holmes and Watson, an anthology of their aphorisms, and a chapter on their relation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.1 inches; 232 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light edge soil, bump spine heel.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. From the American Chronicles of John H. Watson. The year is 1896 and Sherlock Holmes and his esteemed companion, Dr. John Watson, have once again been summoned to Minnesota to face a chilling villain in this spectacularly suspenseful tale of coldblooded murder. ; 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Slight lean and small spot bottom . edge. Jacket lightly rubbed with edge wrinkling.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 395 pages .