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[PULPS & PAPERBACKS]. An extensive collection of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes parodies, pastiches, comic books, and related Sherlockiana, together approximately 80 volumes, various sizes, original wrappers, good condition, including: DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, [1912]. The Newnes' Sixpenny Copyright edition. Scarce. De Waal 97. -- Another edition. New York: Bantam, 1949. Cover art by Bill Shoyer. Bantam #366. -- Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Bantam, 1949. Bantam #704. -- The Valley of Fear. Introduction by John Dickson Carr. New York: Bantam, 1950. Bantam #733. -- The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Pocket, 1950. Cover art by Charles Skaggs. Pocket #670. The preceding four volumes are all FIRST PRINTINGS of the first mass-marketed American editions.
[With:]
SMITH, Harry B. "Sherlock Holmes Solves the Mystery of Edwin Drood." In: Munsey's Magazine. New York, December 1924. De Waal 4141. -- DOYLE, Adrian Conan and John Dickson CARR. The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Ace Books, [1956]. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Ace D-181. -- BENSEN, D.R., adaptor. Sherlock Holmes in New York. New York: Ballantine, 1976. FIRST EDITION. -- And 70 others including 19 comic books, some periodicals, and a collection of Sherlockian postage stamps. See Gary Lovisi, The Great Detective in Paperback, Brooklyn, 1990 (also in this lot). (80)
[With:]
SMITH, Harry B. "Sherlock Holmes Solves the Mystery of Edwin Drood." In: Munsey's Magazine. New York, December 1924. De Waal 4141. -- DOYLE, Adrian Conan and John Dickson CARR. The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Ace Books, [1956]. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Ace D-181. -- BENSEN, D.R., adaptor. Sherlock Holmes in New York. New York: Ballantine, 1976. FIRST EDITION. -- And 70 others including 19 comic books, some periodicals, and a collection of Sherlockian postage stamps. See Gary Lovisi, The Great Detective in Paperback, Brooklyn, 1990 (also in this lot). (80)