* The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. Frontispiece and 15 illustrations by Sidney Paget inserted throughout. First edition, with the misprints found in all subsequent printings (these were never corrected). The Hound of the Baskervilles marked the return of Sherlock Holmes after his disappearance over Reichenbach Falls in The Final Problem, published 1893, which Doyle described as the “inevitable relapse after repentance.”
* A group of 7 original linocut prints from The Folio Society illustrated edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: The Folio Society, 1987. Each print is signed by Edward Bawden and is one of 75 printed copies. Each is captioned in pencil by Bawden (for example, “A hound it was, an enormous coal black hound"). Includes a copy of the book.
* A pair of original storyboards and an original set design sketch by Michael Stringer for the 1983 HBO adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Mapleton Films, starring Ian Richardson as Holmes and Donald H. Churchill as Watson. England, 1982. Stringer was an experienced Production Designer and Art Director, having worked extensively in film (Fiddler on the Roof (1971); Casino Royale (1967); The Greek Tycoon (1978), etc.). The Hound of the Baskervilles was one of the few television productions he worked on.
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A group of 7 original linocut prints from The Folio Society illustrated edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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A pair of original storyboards and an original set design sketch by Michael Stringer for the 1983 HBO adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Original six-sheet poster for the 1922 silent film with John Barrymore as Sherlock Holmes
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An extensive archive of Conan Doyle correspondence regarding spiritualism
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*John Barrymore in Sherlock Holmes. New York: J. H. Tooker Printing Co.,1922. Original six-sheet poster for the silent film starring Barrymore as Holmes, Roland Young as Dr. Watson, and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty (it was also the film debut of William Powell). An exceedingly rare example, quite possibly the only copy extant.
* An extensive archive of Conan Doyle correspondence between his acting secretary Charles Ashton Jonson (1861-1930) regarding his spiritualism lecture tour with his family to Africa in 1929 and accounts of various séances conducted by Margery (Mina Crandon) and others while Doyle was away. From November 1928 to April 1929, Doyle traveled with his family to Africa (the account was published by John Murray in Doyle’s 1929 work titled Our African Winter) conducting numerous Spiritualism lectures in Rhodesia and Nairobi.
Charles Ashton Jonson, music critic and Spiritualist, traveled along with his wife Ethel to Africa with Doyle as acting secretary helping him with his Spiritualist work. In a letter to Jonson dated 19 November 1929, Doyle writes that he is publishing a full account of the corroborations between him, and the spirit called Phineas. He speaks of an occurrence where Phineas intervened and stopped Doyle from traveling to Scandinavia “in so decisive a way that it was perfectly impossible for me to go. I wonder whether he saw that danger threatened me from the quarter?”
