Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction? by Thomas Blakeney
£300.00
BLAKENEY, Thomas S. Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction? London, John Murray, 1932.
First edition, uncommon, of this comprehensive study of Sherlock Holmes.
The book is ‘an attempt … to systematise our knowledge of Holmes’s character and work, and to present a picture that does justice to the original and conforms with the strict requirements of modern biographical method’ (blurb).
Octavo, pp. 133, [1]; very good; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the original printed dust jacket (spine sunned, some spotting to edges and jacket).