UNCOLLECTED STORIES. The Unknown Conan Doyle. Compiled and with an Introduction by John Michael Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. First American Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers (trade paperback format). 456 pp. This copy is Inscribed on the title leaf from Richard Lancelyn Green to John Ruyle: "For John Ruyle, whose own work is both known and collected! With Best Wishes from Richard Lancelyn Green". John Ruyle's small ownership ticket "ex Libris John Ruyle" is on the inner front cover, with his pencil note "7-85", his date of aquisition. Light wear and small creases; a very good copy. Item #312535
¶ Collects 33 tales, 10 of them newly identified as the work of Conan Doyle. The previous owner, John Ruyle, was an avid Sherlockian who collected Doyle & also wrote dozens of Sherlockian parodies and pastiches, which he hand-printed & published them under his own imprints. Richard Lancelyn Green, generally considered the world's foremost scholar on Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, amassed the world's largest collection private of Doyleiana; he died in mysterious & curious circumstances in 2004, shortly after attempting to halt the sale of papers from the Conan Doyle estate which were being auctioned by Christie's.
Price (USD): $125.00