Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Queen, Ellery-editor. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Little Brown, Boston, 1944.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 363p, cloth, DW, moderate edgewear to DW as well as some damp staining to the rear DW and book cover, in mylar, Good+
Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Ellery Queen (ed). The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Little, Brown, 1944.
Price: US$134.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book was edited by Ellery Queen and the Contents consist of 4 Parts - stories by authors dating from 1892 - 1941. "PART ONE - BY DETECTIVE-STORY WRITERS" - this has 9 short stories by such writers as: Robert Barr, Maurice Leblanc, Carolyn Wells, Vincent Starrett, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, & Stuart Palmer. "PART TWO: BY FAMOUS LITERARY FIGURES" - stories by Sr James M. Barrie, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, & O. Henry. "PART THREE: BY HUMORISTS" - stories by R. C. Lehmann, John Kendrick Bangs, and Stephen Leacock. "PART FOUR: BY DEVOTEES AND OTHERS" - stories by Zero (Allan Ramsay), R. K. Munkittrick, Oswald Crawford, Julies Castier, A. E. P., August Derleth, William O. Fuller, Hugh Kingsmill, Rachen Ferguson, Frederic Dorr Steele, Frederric Arnold Kummer and Basil Mitchell, Logan Clendening, M.D., Richard Mallett, S. C. Roberts, and Manly Wade Wellman. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Ellery Queen [Editor]. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Little, Brown and Company, 1944.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: March 1944 first printing first edition in shop worn damp stained price intact jacket. Tight and unmarked. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Edited by Ellery Queen. THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, BOSTON, 1944.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black lightly rubbed boards. Internally clean and sound.
Seller: A Casperson Books, Niles, MI, U.S.A.
Edited by Ellery Queen. THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, 1944.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No DJ. In archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Little, Brown and Company, 1944.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. 1st edition (1944); edited by Ellery Queen; GOOD in GOOD clipped dust jacket; dust jacket has chipping to extrems, larger open tear at head of spine; standard shelf wear to cloth; writing of former owner to ffep, but no markings to text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. The Misadventures of Sherlock. Little Brown & Co, Boston, 1944.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: mild fade to the spine and part of the front cover, chips to the jacket mostly on the spine, thin water stain on the rear of the jacket
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery (ed.). The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Little, Brown, Boston, 1944.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spotting on page ends. Dust jacket has minor soiling and tears top and bottom of spine. This is a good, clean, tight copy. Not price clipped.
Seller: Macintosh Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ellery Queen, Editor. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. little, Brown & Company Boston, 1944.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A previous owners 4 line of purchase history in ink at top of front free endpaper. Dust jacket has long closed tear at front spine edge, not noticeable. short on inch tear at bottom front near spined.
Seller: HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS, Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$398.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG in mylar. a 1st edition/1st printing in very good condition. Some minor chipping to head and foot of spine. Black and red cloth boards with black lettering. NO remainder mark, NOT ex-lib.
Seller: Cul de Sac Books, Clarkston, GA, U.S.A.
Ellery Queen ed. The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes. Little Brown, 1944.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. Unclipped ($2.50-used bookstore price written-in pencil-lightly below this original price). The jacket has mylar protection. The DJ has a 1/2" x 1 " triangular piece missing at the heel of the spine. A 1" closed tear on the back/bottom. Small chips to each flap's corners. Some small chips and creases to the head of the spine. The book has clean text and no marks or writing. Sharp corners. Some minor shelf wear to the bottom of the boards. The spine is slightly sun faded and the crown and foot curve somewhat under. The binding is solid. Red topstain.
Seller: Zach the Ripper Books, Gillette, WY, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery, ed. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1944.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Description: xxii, 363pp + index. Black cloth stamped in red on the front panel and the spine panel. Collects thirty-three stories ranging from parody to satire to exact imitation by Agatha Christie, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, Vincent Starrett, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, John Kendrick Bangs, August Derleth, Hugh Kingsmill, Frederic Dorr Steele, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Manly Wade Wellmann, and others. Dustjacket drawing and illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Light wear to head of spine. A nice near fine copy in very good- price-clipped dustjacket with light fading and tiny chip to spine panel, two old tape mends to the verso, and a short closed tear. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$535.10 + shipping
Description: Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele Slightly darkened front free endpapers but overall a very nice clean copy in a bright dust-wrapper with only minor edgewear. Library label of noted James Joyce scholar James Fuller Spoerri on fromt endpaper This scarce compilation, supposedly suppressed by the Doyle estate, features contributions from Bret Harte, August Derleth, Stephen Leacock, Agatha Christie, James M. Barrie, O. Henry and Mark Twain. "Twenty-five of the thirty-three stories belong to the combined category of parody-travesty-satire-burlesque, five are exact imitations of the real Doyle stories, and three might be called stunt imitations." Black cloth with scarlet decoration stamped on upper board and spine
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, hardcover. Black cloth with black lettering on a red field on spine and front cover. Red top stain. xxiii,363 pages. Bibliography. Index of Sherlock Holmes's Other Names. Very good with tanning to endpapers, in a good, unclipped dust jacket with wear to edges, including 1" tear with creases to bottom edge of front panel and several tears/scratches to rear panel, and rear panel and edges of flaps tanned. Mylar cover on jacket. NOT ex-library. "Parody, travesty, burlesque and exact imitation by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Agatha Christie, John Kendrick Bangs, Stephen Leacock, Carolyn Wells and many others. Thirty-three stories in all."
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-xiv [1-3] 4-363 [364-366], original black cloth front and spine stamped in orange, top edge stained red. A fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends, some color fade to orange ink of spine panel. (28923)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
QUEEN, Ellery. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Signed). Little Brown, Boston, 1944.
Price: US$880.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in black cloth, stamped in red. The book shows a tiny tear to the top of the spine. This is the third printing of the book -- published two months after the first edition and in the same format. The book is inscribed to the Opera Singer AnnaMary Dickey (Laue) on the front endpaper, signed as Ellery Queen (but it was actually Frederic Dunnay who did the signing). 359 pp. + Bibliography. Fitted with a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing, inscribed on the flyleaf by Frederic Dannay as Ellery Queen to Manly Wade Wellman. Wellman's story 'The Man Who Was Not Dead' appears as the final story in this volume of thirty-three Sherlock Holmes stories, one of Queen's most impressive anthologies and originally suppressed by Adrian Conan Doyle. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. Original black cloth boards stamped in red-orange. Boards show shelfwear, rubbing and sunning. Scattered foxing and thumbsoiling internally with a smudge to the verso of flyleaf. Binding cracked at the half-title but holding firm. Jacket shows toning and shelfwear to the extremities, a couple closed tears and reinforcements to verso, protected in archival mylar. Housed in a very attractive custom case.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.