Book ID: 27552

Letters from Baker Street

Smith, Edgar W.; Morley, Christopher; Starrett, Vincent

NY: The Pamphlet House, 1942. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. About Fine.

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Binding Type: HardcoverBook Condition: About FineEdition: Limited/NumberedCatalogue:

“A communication appearing in the London Times of July 3, 1890, from an amateur reasoner of some celebrity; and a communication appearing in the Daily Gazette in March or April, 1892, over the signature of a well-known criminal investigator. Together with the stories in which these letters are quoted: The Lost Special and The Man with the Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Illuminated by a noteworthy communication from Stanley Hopkins, O.B.E., Chief Inspector, C.I.D. (Retired), written and received through the good offices of Christopher Morely and further illuminated by a communication from the eminent Holmesian scholar Vincent Starret. Edited and examined for the canons by Edgar W. Smith.” Hardcover. Blue paper boards with printed title label, in original glassene. 60 pp. Very faint sunning to head of spine. #133/400. One of the first 200 which are in deluxe binding.

Book ID 27552
Publisher The Pamphlet House
Publisher Place NY
Publisher Year 1942
Size 8vo
Language English