SHERLOCK HOLMES
A Study in Scarlet (1887 Ward Lock : 28th Beeton's Christmas Annual)
[Doyle received £25 for this story]
[This edition of the Annual has been valued at £35.000 +]
A Study in Scarlet (1888 Ward Lock)
- first separate book appearance. Richard Doyle
Sold at Auction in 1998 for £12,650
A Study in Scarlet (1891 Ward Lock. New Ed)
- George Hutchinson
[Filmed in 1933]
The Sign of the Four (February 1890 Lippincott's Magazine)
[Doyle received £100 for this story]
The Sign of the Four (1890, 1891 Griffith, Farran & Co's Standard Library)
The Sign of the Four (1890 Spencer Blackett)
[A poorish copy sold at auction for £2760 in 1998]
The Sign of the Four (1891 P F Collier in the 'Once a Week Library', NY. wraps)
[A copy sold at auction in 1998 for £9200]
[*In the USA there was no copyright law for British work, and immediately a book was
published in London it was sent to New York, Chicago or Boston to be copied
and republished, often on cheap paper]
[Their have been many films featuring Sherlock Holmes, the first in 1932]
From July 1891 Holmes appeared regularly in stories in "Strand" magazine
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892 Geo Newnes)
[A signed edition sold at auction in 1998 for £17,250]
The12 stories were : A Scandal in Bohemia; A Case of Identity; The Red-Headed League;
The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips [Filmed in 1944 as "The House of Fear"];
The Man with the Twisted Lip;
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band [Filmed in 1931];
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor;
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet; The Copper Beeches
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892 Harper NY)
- Sidney Paget
[Filmed in 1939]
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These were serialised in the "Strand Magazine" first in 1893
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893 dated 1894 Geo Newnes)
(1894 Harper)
- an attempt to end the Holmes series. Sidney Paget
Twelve stories that included : Silver Blaze [Filmed in 1937]; The Musgrave Ritual; The Naval Treaty;
The Greek Interpreter; The Adventure of the Final Problem
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902 Geo Newnes)
- Sidney Page
[Sold at auction in 1998 for £5750 & a fine copy in a dustjacket sold for £80,000 in 1998 at auction]
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902 McClure, Phillips, NY)
- Sidney Paget
Serialised in the "Strand Magazine" between Aug 1901 and April 1902
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902 Geo Newnes)
- red cover
(1985 Arion Press, SF)
- 400. Photo illus by Michael Kenna
[Filmed in 1939, 1959 & 1977]
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905 McClure, Phillips, NY)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905 Geo Newnes)
- blue cloth
Serialised in "Collier's Magazine" in USA and "Strand Magazine" in UK in 1904
Included were : The Adventure of Black Peter;
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton [Filmed in 1932 as "The Missing Rembrandt"];
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
The Valley of Fear (1915 Smith Elder)
- red cloth
Serialised in the "Strand Magazine" Sept 1914 - May 1915
Actually two stories : The Tragedy of Birlstone & The Scowrers
His Last Bow (1917 John Murray)
Serialised in the "Strand Magazine" first
A Collection of 8 stories : The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge; The Adventure of the Red Circle;
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans; The Adventure of the Dying Detective;
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; The Adventure of the Devil's Foot;
His Last Bow; The Cardboard Box
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927 John Murray)
(1927 Doran)
These were all serialised first in "Strand" magazine
The 12 stories were : The Adventure of the Illustrious Client; The Adventure
of the Blanched Soldier; The Adventure of the Marazin Stone; The Adventure of the Sussex
Vampire; The Adventure of the Three Garridebs; The Problem of Thor Bridge;
The Adventure of the Creeping Man; The Adventure of the Lion's Mane;
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place;
The Adventure of the the Retired Colourman
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (1928 John Murray)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Long Stories (1929 John Murray)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (1953 Doubleday NY)
- 2 vols. Slipcase
OTHERS
Habakuk Jephson's Statement (his first published story in "Cornhill Magazine")
Had essays and stories published in "Boy's Own Paper" & "All the Year Round"
1884-1890
John Barrington Cowles (a story published in "Cassell's Saturday Journal" in 1884)
The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885)
(In)
Dreamland and Ghostland (Anon)
(nd. 1887 Redway)
- 3 vols
[Doyle contributes 7 ghost stories anonymously
These sold at auction in 1998 for £6900]
The Mystery of Cloomber (1888 Ward & Downey)
(1895 R F Fenno, NY)
Mysteries and Adventures (1889)
- reissued in 1893 as "The Gully of Bluemansdyke & other Stories"
Micah Clarke : A Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion (1889 Longmans, Green)
The Captain of the Polestar & Other Tales (1890 Longmans, Green)
The Firm of Girdlestone (1890 Chatto & Windus)
1891-1895
The White Company (1891 Smith Elder)
- 3 vols
Beyond the City (1892 Rand, McNally, Chicago & NY)
The White Company (1892 Smith Elder)
- one vol ed
The Great Shadow (1892 Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual - pb)
The Great Shadow and Beyond the City (1893 Arrowsmith, Bristol / Simpkin Marshall, London)
- James Grieg & Paul Hardy
The Refugees : A Tale of the Huguenots (1893 Longmans, Green)
- 3 vols
The Refugees (1893 Longmans, Green)
(1893 Harper)
- one vol ed
Round the Red Lamp (1894 Methuen)
(1894 Appleton)
The Parasite : A Story (1894 Constable)
(1895 Harper NY)
- Howard Pyle
(Ed)
The Stark Munro Letters (1895 Longmans, Green)
(1895 Appleton)
1896-1900
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896 Geo Newnes)
(1896 Appleton)
- W B Wollen. ss
[Filmed in 1970 as "The Adventures of Gerard"]
Rodney Stone (1896 Smith Elder)
(1896 Appleton)
- Sidney Paget
[Doyle was paid £4000 + £1500 for the serial rights]
Uncle Bernac (1897 Horace Cox : Chaps 1-10 only - pb)
Uncle Bernac : A Memory of the Empire (1897 Smith Elder)
(1897 Appleton)
A Desert Drama : The Tragedy of Korosko (1898 Lippincott)
(1898 Smith Elder)
- S Paget
Songs of Action (1898 Smith Elder)
(1898 Doubleday)
- verse
A Duet with an Occasional Chorus (1899 Grant Richards)
(1899 Appleton)
The Green Flag & Other Stories of War and Sport (1900 Smith Elder)
1901-1910
The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (1903 Geo Newnes)
(1903 McClure, Phillips NY)
- W B Wollen . - ss
The Collected Works (1903 Smith Elder)
- 12 vols. 1000 signed
Sir Nigel (1906 Smith Elder)
(1906 McClure, Phillips)
The Croxley Master (1907)
(1907 McClure, Phillips)
Through the Magic Door (1907 Smith Elder 5/-)
Round the Fire Stories (1908 Smith Elder)
1911-1920
Songs of the Road (1911 Smith Elder)
The Last Galley : Impressions and Tales (1911 Smith Elder)
- ss
The Lost World (1912 Hodder & Stoughton)
+ 190 copies of a Ltd Presentation Edition
+ 810 copies of a 2nd Issue Ltd Presentation Edition (1914 Frowde & H & S)
(1912 H & S, George H Doran)
[Filmed in 1925 & 1960]
The Speckled Band (1912 French's Acting Edition)
[Sold at auction in 1998 for £4830]
The Poison Belt (1913 Hodder & Stoughton)
(1913 H & S, Doran)
The Valley of Fear (1915 Doran, NY)
Danger ! & Other Stories (1918 John Murray)
The Guards Came Through & Other Poems (1919 Murray)
"An Epoch-Making Event - Fairies Photographed"
(1920 Strand Magazine, Christmas Ed)
- with Edward L Gardner
1921 Onwards
The Last of the Legions and Other tales of Long Ago (1922 Doran NY)
Tales of Long Ago (1922 Murray)
- reprint collection
The White Company (1922 NY)
- N C Wyeth
The Coming of the Fairies (1922 H & S)
(1928 Psychic Press - Enlarged Edition)
Inscribed copy offered in 2000 for £2000
Tales of Pirates and Blue Water (1922 Murray)
- reprint collection
Three of Them : A Reminiscence (1923 Murray)
The Croxley Master & Other Tales of the Ring and Camp (1925 Doran, NY)
The Land of Mist (1926 Hutchinson)
(1926 Doran)
The Maracot Deep & Other Stories (1929 John Murray)
(1929 Doubleday Doran)
The Conan Doyle Stories (1929 John Murray)
The Crowborough Edition of the Works (1930 Doubleday Doran)
- 24 vols
The Conan Doyle Historical Romances (1932 Murray)
- one vol
The Professor Challenger Stories (1952 UK)
The Annotated Lost World (1996 Wessex Press, US)
- Edited by Roy Pilot & Alvin Rodin
NON-FICTION
1900-1910
The Great Boer War (1900 Smith Elder)
The War in South Africa : Its Cause & Conduct
[A pamphlet priced 6d it sold 300,000 copies in UK in 2 mths]
The Story of Mr George Edalji (1907 T Harrison Roberts)
Through the Magic Door (1907 Smith Elder)
- essays and articles
Waterloo (1907 Samuel French, NY & London)
The Crime of the Congo (1909 Hutchinson)
- booklet
1911-1915
The Case of Oscar Slater (1912 H & S)
The German War (1914 H & S)
Great Britain and the Next War (1914 Boston)
To Arms (a 32 page booklet)
1916-1920
The British Campaign in France & Flanders (1916-20 H & S)
(1916-20 Doran)
- 6 vols
The New Revelation (1918 Hodder & Stoughton)
- [his first book on Spiritualism]
The Vital Message (1919 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Vital Message
A Full Report of a Lecture on Spiritualism delivered by Conan Doyle at the Connaught Hall,
Worthing, Friday 11th July 1919 (1919 Worthing Gazette)
- 12pp
(1919 Hodder & Stoughton)
(1919 Doran)
- [his second book on Spiritualism]
Verbatim Report of a Public Debate on the Truth of Spiritualism : between Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle & Joseph McCabe (1920 Watts)
(1920 Watts pb)
Our Reply to the Cleric : Conan Doyle's Lecture in Leicester, 19th October 1919
(1920 Spiritualist's National Union, Halifx)
- 16pp
Spiritualism & Rationalism : with a Drastic Examination of Mr Joseph McCabe
(1920 Hodder & Stoughton)
- 20pp
1921 Onwards
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle (1922 John Murray)
The Case for Spirit Photography (1922 Hutchinson)
(1922 Hutchinson pb)
- et al
Our American Adventure (1923 Hodder & Stoughton)
(1923 Doran, NY)
Our Second American Adventure (1924 Hodder & Stoughton)
(Compiler)
The Spiritualist's Reader : A Collection of Spirit Messages from Many Sources
(1924 Two World's Publ Co, Manchester)
(1955 Psychic Book Co)
Memories & Adventures (1924 H & S)
(1930 Rev Ed)
- autobiography
The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism (1925 Psychic Bookshop & Library)
- 12pp
Psychic Experiences (1925 G P Putnam's)
- 12pp
The History of Spiritualism (1926 Cassell)
- 2 vols
Phineas Speaks (1927 Psychic Press)
(1927 Psychic Press pb)
A Word of Warning (1928 Psychic Bookshop)
- 19pp
What Does Spiritualism Actually Teach & Stand For ? (1928 Psychic Bookshop)
- 16pp
The Roman Catholic Church : A Rejoinder (1929 Psychic Press)
- 72pp
An Open Letter to Those of My Generation (1929 Psychic Press)
- 12pp
Our African Winter (1929 Murray)
The Edge of the Unknown (1930 Murray)
The New Revelation & The Vital Message (1938 Psychic Press)
- combined Ed
READING
1893-1910
Joseph Bell : Mr Sherlock Holmes (1893)
Greg Gatenby : The Wild is Always There (1903)
1911-1950
Geoffrey Hodson : Fairies at Work & Play (1925 Theosophical Publ House)
Harold Locke : A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Writings of Conan Doyle, 1879-1928
(1928 Tunbridge Wells)
Ronald A Knox : Essays in Satire (1928)
John Lamond : Conan Doyle - A Memoir (1931 Murray)
T S Blakeney : Sherlock Holmes - Fact or Fiction (1932)
H W Bell : Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson (1932)
(Ed)
Ivan Cooke : Thy Kingdom Come (1933 Wright & Brown)
[Later republished as "The Return of Arthur Conan Doyle" 1957 White Eagle]
Vincent Starrett : The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1934)
Hesketh Pearson : Conan Doyle - His Life and Art (1943 Methuen)
Adrian Conan Doyle : The True Conan Doyle (1945)
Edward L Gardner : Fairies - The Cottingley Photographs and Their Sequel
(1945 Theosophical Publ House)
Dorothy L Sayers : Unpopular Opinions (1946)
Guy Warrack : Sherlock Holmes and Music (1947)
John Dickson Carr : The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1949 Murray)
1951-1960
Gavin Brend : My Dear Holmes (1951)
Tage La Cour : Ex Bibliotheca Holmesiana - The First Edtions of the Writings of Sherlock Holmes
(1951 Denmark)
- 300
S C Roberts : Holmes and Watson - A Miscellany (1953 Oxford)
C D Broad : Religion, Philosophy and Psychic Research (1953)
Michael Harrison : In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes (1958)
James E Holroyd : Baker Street Byways (1959)
1961-1970
(Ed)
Hesketh Pearson : Conan Doyle - His Life and Art (1961)
Mollie & Michael Hardwick : The Sherlock Holmes Companion (1962 Murray)
William S Baring-Gould : Sherlock Holmes - A Biography (1962)
Mollie & Michael Hardwick : The Man who Was Sherlock Holmes (1964)
Pierre Nordon : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1964)
William S Baring-Gould (Ed)
: The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (1968 Murray)
- 2 vols
Hugh Greene : The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes : An Anthology (1970 Bodley Head)
(1970 Pantheon NY)
1971-1975
Hugh Greene : More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971 Bodley Head)
(1971 Pantheon as "Cosmopolitan Crimes")
Martin Dakin : A Sherlock Holmes Commentary (1972 David & Charles £4.75)
Peter Haining : The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook (1973)
Hugh Greene : Crooked Counties (1973 Bodley Head)
(1973 Pantheon as "Further Rivals
of Sherlock Holmes")
Michael Harrison : The World of Sherlock Holmes (1973 Muller £5.50)
Ian McQueen : Sherlock Holmes Detected - The Problems of the Long Stories (1974 David & Charles £4.95)
R B De Waal : The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson (1974 NY)
Michael Pointer : The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes (1975)
1976-1980
Charles Higham : The Adventures of Conan Doyle (1976 H Hamilton)
Hugh Greene : The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1976 Bodley Head)
(1976 Pantheon)
David Stuart Davies : Holmes of the Movies (1976)
Ronald Pearsall : Conan Doyle - a Biographical Solution (1977)
Michael Pointer : The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes (1977)
Michael Baker : The Doyle Diary - The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery (1977 Paddington Press)
Jack Tracey : The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana (1977)
Trevor H Hall : Sherlock Holmes and His Creator (1978)
Charles Altamont Doyle : The Doyle Diary (1978 Paddington Press)
Chris Steinbrunner & Norman Michaels : The Films of Sherlock Holmes (1978)
Julian Symons : Conan Doyle - Portrait of an Artist (1979)
R B De Waal : The International Sherlock Holmes (1980)
1981-1985
Donald A Redmond : Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Sources (1982)
Richard Lancelyn Green & John Michael Gibson : The Unkwon Conan
Doyle - Uncollected Stories (1982)
Richard Lancelyn Green & John Michael Gibson : Essays in Photography (1982)
Owen Dudley Edwards : The Quest for Sherlock Holmes (1983 Mainstream)
Richard Lancelyn Green & John Michael Gibson : A Bibliography of A C Doyle
(1983 Soho Bibliographies 23, Oxford)
(1984 Rev Ed)
Richard Lancelyn Green : The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes (1983)
Michael Hardwick : Sherlock Holmes - My Life and Crimes (1984 Harvill)
Christopher Redmond : In Bed with Sherlock Holmes (1984)
(Ed)
P A Shreffler : The Baker Street Reader (1984)
Alvin E Rodin & Jack D Key : Medical Casebook of Dr Arthur Conan Doyle (1984)
Richard Lancelyn Green : The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985)
1986-1990
Richard Lancelyn Green & John Michael Gibson : Letters to the Press (1986)
Richard Lancelyn Green : The Sherlock Holmes Letters (1986)
Allen Eyles : Sherlock Holmes - A Centenary Celebration (1986)
Michael Hardwick : The Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmes (1986)
Geoffrey Stavert : A Study in Southsea - The Unrevealed Life of Dr Arthur Conan Doyle (1987)
Charles Hall : The Sherlock Holmes Collection (1987)
Jon L Lellenberg : The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1987)
Christopher Redmond : Welcome to America, Mr Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Kelvin I Jones : Conan Doyle and the Spirits (1989)
Charles Viney : Sherlock Holmes in London (1989)
Joe Cooper : The Case of the Cottingley Fairies (1990 Robert Hale)
(1998 Simon & Schuster £20)
Since 1991
Peter Costello : The Real World of Sherlock Holmes - The True Crimes Investigated
by Arthur Conan Doyle (1991)
Philip Weller & Christopher Roden : The Life & Times of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
(Ed)
Harold Orel : Critical Essays in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1992)
Christopher Redmond : A Sherlock Holmes Handbook (1993)
Michael Coren : Conan Doyle (1995 Stoddart, Toronto $29.95)
Martin Booth : The Doctor, The Detective and Arthur Conan Doyle
(1997 Hodder & Stoughton £20)
Daniel Stashower : Teller of Tales - The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (2000 Allen Lane £18.99)
Richard Lancelyn Green & John Michael Gibson : A Bibliography of Arthur Conan Doyle
(2000 Hudson House £65)
(Ed)
Leslie S Klinger : The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (2004 Norton £35)