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DYIN-099

The Adventure of the Dying Detective by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  ([London]: Westminster Libraries and The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, 1991).  A facsimile of the entire manuscript with an Introduction by Julian Symons and Afterword by Owen Dudley Edwards.

LION-099

The Adventure of the Lion's Mane by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  ([London]: Westminster Libraries and The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1992).  A facsimile of the entire manuscript with an Introduction by Colin Dexter and Afterword by Richard Lancelyn Green.

PRIO-099

The Adventure of the Priory School by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  (Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1985).  A facsimile of the entire manuscript with an Introduction by Len Deighton.

SHOS-099

The Adventure of Shoscombe Abbey by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  (Lausanne, Switzerland: Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, 2002).  A facsimile of the entire manuscript with an Introduction in French by Vincent Delay and two essays (one in French and the other in English) by Ernest Giddey.   Published in a limited edition of 200 copies.  ISBN 2-88888-091-1

SECO-101

American Art Association catalogue: Novelists and Illustrators of the XIXTH Century, Publications in the Original Parts, Forming a portion of the library of Mr. Frederick Corder of London, England… (New York – 26 & 27 January 1922), Lot 342, facing lot description.

SIGN-103

American Book Collector, September-October 1973, vol. 24, no. 1, cover.  Manuscript sold 23 September 1973 at the Hanzel Galleries, Chicago, for $51,000.  See page 13 for other sale information.

ANGE-111

Angels of Darkness: A Drama in Three Acts by Arthur Conan Doyle, edited with an introduction by Peter E. Blau.  (New York: The Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the Toronto Public Library, 2001).  This volume includes a partial manuscript facsimile, a complete manuscript transcription, and related essays.  Available at the Baker Street Journal website.

STUD-111

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, 2nd ed., by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited, with annotations by William S. Baring-Gould.  (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1977), vol. 1, p. 11.  The last word ("genius") is missing from the reproduction.

SIGN-101

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, 2nd ed., by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited, with annotations by William S. Baring-Gould.  (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1977), vol. 1, opposite p. 688.  The last three lines of text from the opening page are missing in this reproduction and instead it ends: "experience which I had had of his many."

MISS-101

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, 2nd ed., by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited, with annotations by William S. Baring-Gould.  (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1977), vol. 2, p. 490.

REDC-101

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, 2nd ed., by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited, with annotations by William S. Baring-Gould.  (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1977), vol. 2, p. 704.  Includes only part of the opening page, reproducing the heading and first 12 lines of text.

GREE-101

Antiquarian Bookman, February 22, 1965, vol. 35, no. 8, p. 729.  The reproduction is quite small and not very readable.  Parts of other pages, especially the final page, are also shown but are not readable.

SCAN-101

Antiquarian Bookman, February 22, 1965, vol. 35, no. 8, p. 729.  The page is shown as mounted on a blank leaf.  However, the reproduction is small and not very readable.

STUD-111

Autograph Collector, October 2004, vol. 14, no. 10, p. 37.  ("Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: It’s Elementary" by Stuart Lutz on pp. 36-39.)

VALL-111

Austin's Sherlockian Studies: The Collected Annuals. (New York: Magico Magazine, 1986), p. 67.  Reprint of J. Bliss Austin's A Baker Street Christmas Stocking, 1953-1981.

EMPT-101

EMPT-112

EMPT-113

EMPT-114

Back to Baker Street: An Appreciation of Sherlock Holmes & London edited by Roger Johnson and Jean Upton (London: The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1994), pp. 28, 31, 32 & 33.  ("'What's in a Name? An Examination of the Manuscript of 'The Empty House'" by Jean Upton on pp. 28-33.).  Available from the SHSL website.

VALL-111

A Baker Street Christmas Stocking, 1965.  (Pittsburgh: Hydraulic Press) J. Bliss Austin's Christmas greeting card and commentary.  Reprinted in Austin's Sherlockian Studies, listed above.

FINA-111

Baker Street Gasogene, 1961, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 34.  ("Sherlock Holmes Letter" on p. 34)

SIGN-101

Baker Street Journal, April 1954, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 126.  ("From the Editor's Commonplace Book" by Edgar W. Smith on pp. 120-128.)  The manuscript is described on page 125.  The last three lines of text from the opening page are missing in this reproduction and instead it ends: "experience which I had had of his many."

MISS-101

Baker Street Journal, January 1955, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 25.

REDC-101

Baker Street Journal 1956 Christmas Annual, [vol. 6, no. 5], p. 46.  Includes only part of the opening page, reproducing the heading and first 12 lines of text.

REDC-111

Baker Street Journal, January 1960, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 41.  ("Bibliographical Notes" by Edgar W. Smith on pp. 39-41.)

HOUN-113

Baker Street Journal, October 1960, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 229.  ("Bibliographical Notes" by Edgar W. Smith on pp. 227-230.)

FINA-111

Baker Street Journal, June 1962, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 78.  ("Graphologists in the Canon" by Martin J. Swanson on pp. 73-80.)  Part of the fragment is enlarged for handwriting analysis and this obscures other parts of the fragment. 

STUD-111

Baker Street Journal, December 1962, vol. 12, no. 4, p. 218.  ("Some Onomatological Notes on 'Sherlock Holmes' and Other Names in the Sacred Writings" by Duncan MacDougald, Jr. on pp. 213-218.)   Only the top half of the page is reproduced and it ends with "Chemical laboratory."

STUD-111

Baker Street Journal, March 1969, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 49.  ("The Scion Societies: The Baker Street Irregulars" by Julian Wolff, M.D. on p. 49.)  Only the top half of the page is reproduced and it ends with "I have four hundred a year."

SOLI-101

SOLI-111

Baker Street Journal, June 1972, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 73.  ("The Solitary Man-uscript" by Andrew J. Peck on pp. 71-73.)  Reprinted in Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp.

SIGN-101

SIGN-103

Baker Street Journal, December 1973, vol. 23, no. 4, p. 254.  (" '…To Make Inquiries About the Page…' " on pp. 253-255.  The last three lines of text from the opening page are missing in this reproduction and instead it ends: "experience which I had had of his many."

SECO-112

SECO-113

Baker Street Journal, June 1976, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 96-97.  ("The Mystery of the Second Hand" by Herman Gelband on pp. 96-7.)

SECO-111

SECO-114

Baker Street Journal, September 1978, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 133, 135.  ("The Second Hand in The Second Stain" by Richard Luman on pp. 132-136, 140.)  Reprinted in Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp.

SOLI-101

SOLI-112

Baker Street Journal, Winter 2005, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 48, 51.  ("The Trail of the Semi-Solitary Manuscript" by Randall Stock on pp. 46-54.)

VALL-112

VALL-113

Baker Street Miscellanea, June 1978, no. 14, p. 4-5.  ("On the Writing of Some of the Most Remarkable Books Ever Penned" by Bliss Austin on pp. 1-9.)

SECO-113

Baker Street Miscellanea, December 1978, no. 16, p. 12.  ("The SECO Second Handwriting—Identified" by the Editors on pp. 12-14.)  Article reprinted in Serpentine Muse.

THOR-101

Baker Street Miscellanea, Summer 1981, no. 26, p. 9.  ("It is an Old Manuscript: The Adventure of the Second Chip" by Peter E. Blau on pp. 8-10.)  It includes a description of the manuscript from the Christie's London catalog for April 29, 1981. 

STUD-111

Baker Street Miscellanea, Spring 1987, no. 49, p. 18.

VALL-117

Bibliamaranth: Eighty-eight otherwise immiscible immortals... (aka Biblioctopus Catalog 12).  (Idyllwild, Calif.: Biblioctopus, 1991 [available November 1990]), Item 26.  This item consisted of four leaves which are listed here as VALL #111, #117, #118/119, and #120.  This Biblioctopus catalog only reproduces a single page.

FINA-111

Bloomington by Gaslight: Sherlock Holmes in the Lilly Library by Stephen H. Cape, web editor Becky Cape.  Indiana University Bloomington Libraries.

Exhibit home: <http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/holmes/>

MS: <http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/holmes/pages/doyle_00001.shtml> (Aug. 30, 2003).

REDC-101

REDC-102

Bloomington by Gaslight: Sherlock Holmes in the Lilly Library by Stephen H. Cape, web editor Becky Cape.  Indiana University Bloomington Libraries.

Exhibit home: <http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/holmes/>

MS: <http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/holmes/pages/english-literature_00005.shtml> (Aug. 30, 2003).

MS: <http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/holmes/pages/english-literature_00006.shtml> (Aug. 30, 2003).

DYIN-101

DYIN-111

The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Dying Detective edited by Christopher and Barbara Roden.  (Ashcroft, British Columbia: Calabash Press, 1996), pp. 136 & 139.  ("A Study in Manuscript" by Christopher Roden on pp. 136-143.)

GREE-101

Christie's catalogue: Important Literary and Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Printed Books (London – 18 December 1964), Lot 71, p. 25.  A description is listed on page 24.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)

GREE-101

Christie's Review of the Year: October 1964 – July 1965 by Christie, Manson & Woods.  (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1965), p. 180.  Brief discussion on page 181. 

DYIN-101

Christie's catalogue: Important Books and Manuscripts (London – 28 April 1966), Lot 190, p. 78.  A description is listed on page 77.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)

LADY-101

Christie's catalogue: Important Autograph Letters and Manuscripts (New York – 21 October 1977), Lot 90, p. 94.  A description is listed on page 95.   The manuscript sold for $9,500.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, International).

THOR-101

Christie's catalogue: Valuable Autograph Letters, Historical Documents, and Music Manuscripts (London – 29 April 1981), Lot 174, p. 59.  A description is listed on page 58.   The manuscript sold for £13,000 plus a 10% premium to the auction house, or about $31,000.  Lots 175-176 included ACD letters.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)

GREE-111

Christie's catalogue: Valuable Autograph Letters, Historical Documents, and Music Manuscripts (London – 5 May 1982), Sale code Boudicca-2379, Lot 102, p. 44.  A description is listed on page 45.   The manuscript sold for £15,660 including buyer's premium.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)

GREE-111

Christie's Review of the Season 1982 edited by John Herbert.  (New York: Abbeville Press/Christie's, 1982), p. 166.  Sold 5 May 1982 in London for £15,660 ($28,501) including buyer's premium.

LAST-102

Christie's catalogue: Valuable Autograph Letters, Music Manuscripts and Historical Documents (London – 28 March 1984), Sale code: Banker-2859, Lot 171, p. 68.  The manuscript sold for £16,740.  Lot 170 was the manuscript for "The Poison Belt" and includes a reproduction of its first page.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)

3GAR-101

Christie's catalogue: Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts, Printed Books… (London – 6 December 1989), Lot 309, p.133.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)

CHAS-101

CHAS-102

CHAS-104

Christie's catalogue: Printed Books and Manuscripts (New York – 9 June 1999), Lot 98, p. 99.  Sold with an original drawing by Frederic Dorr Steele of Milverton.  A description is listed on pages 98 and 100.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)

REIG-102

STUD-112

SUSS-101

Christie's catalogue: The Conan Doyle Collection (London – 19 May 2004), Lot 15, 19, ad p. [175].  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)  See also the sale information page.

SUSS-101

SUSS-102

SUSS-104

Christie's catalogue: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts (New York – 9 June 2004), Lot 58, p. 56.  A description is listed on pages 56-57.  (Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.)  See also the sale information page.

CARD-111

The Collector's Book of Detective Fiction by Eric Quayle.  (London: Studio Vista, 1972), p. 59.

STUD-111

Conan Doyle: a biography by Pierre Nordon [Translated from the French by Frances Partridge]  (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967), between pages 180 and 181.  Reproduction not present in the original French version Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. l'Homme et l'Oeuvre (Paris-Bruxelles: Didier, 1964).

HOUN-113

The Critic, May 1902, vol. 15, no. 5, p. 390.

CHAS-101

Detroit News, 23 June 1949, p. 70.  ("Library Shows Conan Doyle Treasures" by Russell McLauchlin on p. 70.)

REDC-101

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 18; Victorian Novelists After 1885 edited by Ira B. Nadel and William E. Freedman.  (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1983), p. 90.  ("Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" by George Grella and Phillip B. Dematteis on pp. 77-94.)

STUD-111

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 70; British Mystery Writers 1860 – 1919 edited by Bernard Benstock and Thomas F. Staley.  (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1988), p. 115.  ("Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" by J. Randolph Cox on pp. 112-134.)

CARD-111

Elementary My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes centenary; his life & times by Graham Nown.  (Topsfield, Mass.: Salem House Publishers, 1987), p. 19.

STUD-111

Encyclopedia Sherlockiana by Matthew E. Bunson.  (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1997), p. 254.   Small but legible reproduction.

FINA-111

REDC-101

The First Hundred Years of Detective Fiction, 1841-1941 by David Randall (Lilly Library).  (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Lilly Library , 1973), p. 22.  Part of a Lilly Library exhibition catalog for July-September, 1973 (Lilly Library publication no. 18).

PRIO-101

Marvin P. Epstein holiday greeting card for 1976, front.  This card was approximately 6 x 4 inches and printed in an edition limited to 221 copies.

HOUN-115

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Chapter XI by Arthur Conan Doyle.  BSI Manuscript Series general editor Leslie S. Klinger.  (New York: The Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the New York Public Library—Berg Collection, 2001).  This volume includes a facsimile of Chapter 11 of the manuscript, a transcription of the material, and related essays.  Available at the Baker Street Journal website.

STUD-905

El Dieff brochure.  (New York: House of El Dieff, Inc., n.d.)  This is probably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Archives listed elsewhere, but if you have easy access to a different El Dieff/Feldman item with a reproduction from A Study in Scarlet please send me e-mail. 

HOUN-111

HOUN-112

Sixty-Four: Collections of British and American Literature… by Lew David Feldman.  (New York: House of El Dieff, Inc., 1964).  Item #16 in the catalog for 1964.

GOLD-104

Seventy: the world of books, arts and letters, circa 1455-1968 by Lew David Feldman.  (New York: House of El Dieff, Inc., 1969).  Item #21 in the catalogue for 1970.  This catalogue also contains Conan Doyle manuscript and typescript material on spiritualism and a collection of Hornung manuscripts.  De Waal cites this as the first page of the manuscript reproduced on the catalogue's cover, but it is actually the manuscript cover reproduced on an interior catalogue page.

STUD-111

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Archives by Lew David Feldman.  (New York: [House of El Dieff, Inc., 1970]), cover.  A four-page pamphlet distributed at the 1971 BSI dinner that lists numerous Conan Doyle manuscripts, letters and memorabilia.

REDC-100

REDC-101

Seventy-One: the world of books, arts and letters, circa 1170-1970 by Lew David Feldman.  (New York: House of El Dieff, Inc., 1971).  Item #15 in the catalog for 1971.

HOUN-118

The Distinguished Library of Detective-Crime-Mystery Fiction. Formed by Florence and Edward Kaye, Covering the Period 1591-1974. (New York: House of El Dieff, Inc., [1974]), front cover.

RESI-901

El Dieff catalog.  (New York: House of El Dieff, Inc., 1975).

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STUD-111

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, Rev. ed., by Michael Harrison.  (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971) (New York: Drake Publishers, 1972), facing p. 37.   Reproduced with narrow edges and final word "genius" partially cut off.  No facsimile in the 1960 1st edition. 

SCAN-101

SCAN-102

Life, 15 April 1946, vol. 20, no. 15, p. 102.  ("Rare Manuscripts" pp. 100-105.)

STUD-112

The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by John Dickson Carr.  (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949), facing p. 149.  It also probably appears on page 63 of the 1949 John Murray (London) uniform edition.  It is not in the 1975 paperback edition from Vintage Books (New York).

MISS-101

The Light Is Dark Enough: The Sherlock Holmes Society of London Cambridge Expedition 1989 edited by Jonathan McCafferty.  (London: The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1989), before p. 1.  ("The Missing Three Quarter--A resumé of the case" by Percy Metcalfe.)

EMPT-111

Maggs Bros. Catalogue no. 436: Original manuscripts and collections of autograph letters of celebrated authors, to which are appended autograph letters of Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson.  (London: Maggs Bros., 1923), plate 8.  Item #112 with description on page 78.

HOUN-116

HOUN-117

The Magic Door, Summer 2002, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 3.  ("The Berg Collection at 60: A Tale of Literary Taste and Scholarship" by Isaac Gewirtz, edited by Peter Wood, on pp. 3, 6.)  Clear if small reproductions at 10.4 cm that show the page margins.

FINA-111

REDC-101

The Magic Door, Summer 2004, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 3.  ("The Lilly Collection" by Rebecca Cape on pp. 1, 3, 6.).

STUD-111

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes by Michael and Mollie Hardwick.  (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1964), opposite p. 33.

REDC-099

Mandate for Murder edited, with an introduction, by Roy Pilot, Gianluca Salvatori, and Enrico Solito.  BSI Manuscript Series general editor Leslie S. Klinger.  (New York: The Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the Lilly Library of Indiana University, 2006).  Available at the Baker Street Journal website.

FINA-111

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited with annotations by Leslie S. Klinger.  (Indianapolis: Gasogene Books, 1999), p. 272.

STUD-111

Memories and Adventures by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924), front of dust-jacket.  The last word ("genius") is missing from the reproduction.  This was the first American edition of the book.  It does not contain any manuscript reproductions inside the book.   It's likely that this is the only edition of this work that contains a reproduction.

The first English edition (London: Hodder and Staughton, 1924) does not include any facsimiles on its dust-jacket or inside.   The second English edition (London: John Murray, 1930) does not have a facsimile on its dust-jacket or in its interior.  The Crowborough Edition (vol. 24) of the book (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, Inc., 1930) does not include any facsimiles inside.  Its dust-jacket has not been seen. 

CHAS-101

Milvertonians of Hampstead Christmas card for 1963, front.  This card was approximately 5 x 7 inches and includes five paragraphs of notes by Michael and Mollie Hardwick on the inside left page.  The reproduction is quite readable.

SCAN-101

Min Kaere Watson by Henry Lauritzen.  (Aalborg: Frede og L. C. Lauritzen's Forlag, 1954), p. 32.  Also published in English as My Dear Watson Tr. by Bjarne Nielsen. ([Copenhagen]: Antikvariat Pinkerton, 1982).   Both include the reproduction.  See De Waal C9476 and C9557.

GOLD-101

Modern British Fiction by John R. Payne.  (Austin: University of Texas, 1972), p. 20.

VALL-111

VALL-117

VALL-118

VALL-119

VALL-120

Murderland, edited by Steven T. Doyle.  (New York: The Baker Street Irregulars , 2004), p. 59.  ("It is an Old Manuscript: The Notes for The Valley of Fear" by Peter E. Blau on pp. 49-63.)  Available at the Baker Street Journal website

SIXN-099

The Napoleon Bust Business Again edited, with an introduction, by William Hyder.  BSI Manuscript Series general editor Leslie S. Klinger.  (New York: The Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 2004).  Available at the Baker Street Journal website.

STUD-112

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited, with annotations by Leslie S. Klinger.  (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006), [vol. III.], the novels, p. 8.

VALL-101