Author: Queen, Ellery, ed
Title: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes
Description: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. xxii, 363pp + index. Black cloth stamped in red on the front panel and the spine panel. Collects thirty-three stories ranging from parody to satire to exact imitation by Agatha Christie, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, Vincent Starrett, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, John Kendrick Bangs, August Derleth, Hugh Kingsmill, Frederic Dorr Steele, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Manly Wade Wellmann, and others. Dustjacket drawing and illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Light wear to head of spine. A nice near fine copy in very good- price-clipped dustjacket with light fading and tiny chip to spine panel, two old tape mends to the verso, and a short closed tear. ; Octavo. Ill.: Illustrated by Steele, Frederic Dorr.

Keywords: Mysteries, PARODIES, SHERLOCK HOLMES, HUMOR, PASTICHE, SHERLOCKIANA


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