Set Reminder2024-02-15 12:00:002024-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : A Study in Sherlock, Part II: Including the Collections of Robert Hess and Roy Pilot https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/a-study-in-sherlock-part-ii-including-the-collections-of-robert-hess-and-roy-pilot-21913 We are pleased to announce the second session of Robert Hess's Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collection. High spots will include the only known copy of the first English edition of The Lost World in original dust jacket and Sidney Paget's personal robe.
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SMITH, Edgar W., editor. Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944.8vo. Woodcut frontispiece. Original red cloth; original dust jacket (spine sunned, few tears with losses near top edge of rear panel). Provenance: Howard Collins (bookplate and limitation), see below.FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 21 of an unspecified number printed for friends of the editor, SIGNED BY SMITH on the limitation, this copy being presented to Howard Collins. Collins contributed a story titled ?Ex Libris Sherlock Holmes?. -- [With:] SMITH. 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes. New York: Macmillan, 1940. 8vo. Original red cloth. Provenance: Harvey Officer (ownership signature dated 1940). Officer was one of the first members of the Baker Street Irregulars.