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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STARRETT, Vincent (1886-1974). A group of 4 titles, including: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. 8vo. Illustrated. Original blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt (some rubbing, text toned); original dust jacket (worn, soiled, chipped, flaps detached yet present). FIRST EDITION. -- Another copy. 75th Anniversary edition. Indianapolis: Gasongene Books, [2008]. 8vo. Illustrated. Original full blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt; original dust jacket. SIGNED ON THE TITLE-PAGE BY THE EDITOR RAYMOND BETZNER AND SHERLOCKIANS STEPHEN T. DOYLE AND MARK GAGEN. -- Autolycus in Limbo. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. 8vo. Original blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in black (spine lightly sunned, some rubbing to binding, text mildly toned); original dust jacket (jacket toned and rubbed). FIRST EDITION. -- Books and Bipeds. New York: Argus Books, [1947]. 8vo. Original red cloth, printed paper label on spine (minor rubbing, soiling to binding, gift inscription on ffep); original dust jacket (numerous tape repairs to verso and reinforcement on front, spine toned, worn). FIRST EDITION. Offered with a framed image of Starrett.