Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Smith, Edgar W. (Ed.); Untermeyer, Lois (Intro.); Brazelton, Julian (Illust.); Steele, Frederic Dorr (Illust.)
Title: Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Publication: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944
Edition: First Edition

Description: First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 7/8". xv, [v], 312pp. First printing. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket, with substantial tears and chipping to extremities, spine bleached, and dust soiling. Red cloth over boards, with Sherlock Holmes profile stamped in black to upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, wth gentle bumping to extremities. Map endpapers: "The World Strictly According to Doyle." Rear hinge starting to crack, with webbing visible. Binding remains quite sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A worn but still quite handsome first printing of this collection of Sherlockiana by Heywood Broun, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Rex Stout, Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Boucher, Dr. George F. McCleary, Vincent Starrett, Howard Haycraft, A. Conan Doyle, Howard Collins, Belden Wigglesworth, Fletcher Pratt, W. S. Hall, H. W. Bell, Charles Honce, Rufus S. Tucker, Dr. Charles S. Goodman, Logan Clendening, P. M. Stone, E. E. Kellett, James Kedde, Dr. Reginald Fitz, Robert Keth Leavitt, Carolyn Wells, Helene Yuhasova, Harvey Officer, Dr. Julian Wolff, "Evoe," and Felix Morley. Good + / fair.

Seller ID: 3634

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