The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes

Detective Fiction. Queen (Ellery) (Editor) Introduction by Ellery Queen Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele Boston, Little, Brown and Company,  1944 First Edition    Black cloth with scarlet decoration stamped on upper board and spine Slightly darkened front free endpapers but overall a very nice clean copy in a bright dust-wrapper with only minor edgewear. Library label of noted James Joyce scholar James Fuller Spoerri on fromt endpaper   This scarce compilation, supposedly suppressed by the Doyle estate, features contributions from Bret Harte, August Derleth, Stephen Leacock, Agatha Christie, James M. Barrie, O. Henry and Mark Twain. “Twenty-five of the thirty-three stories belong to the combined category of parody-travesty-satire-burlesque, five are exact imitations of the real Doyle stories, and three might be called stunt imitations.” 

Price: £400