Author: HAINING, Peter (editor)
Title: The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook: Fifty Years of Occasional Articles, Newspaper Cuttings, Letters, Memoirs, Anecdotes, Pictures, Photographs and Drawings Relating to the Great Detective. ; Foreword by Peter Cushing
Description: New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1974. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 128pp. Extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Tight and handsome first U.S. edition of this fascinating, "far-ranging collection of such diverse material.." From the collection of published Sherlock buff and noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. By the way, the Bramhall House edition of this book, often cited by some as the first edition, is not -- it's a reprint of the Clarkson Potter edition, which is the legitimate first U.S. edition. .

Keywords: Mystery & Detective


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