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QUEEN, Ellery, editor. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1944.

Price realised USD 418
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QUEEN, Ellery, editor. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1944.

Price realised USD 418
Price realised USD 418
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QUEEN, Ellery, editor. The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1944.

8o. Original cloth (hinges cracked); pictorial dust jacket by Frederick Dorr Steele (repaired short tear to spine panel, some wear to edges and corners, light browning and small stains).

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR on the front free endpaper: "To Dr. Richard Lackritz this is the only EQ book ever suppressed--and for reasons that had nothing to do with the book! Keep the faith "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay)" The Arthur Conan Doyle estate tried to keep The Misadventures out of circulation due to alleged copyright infringement.

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