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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First hardcover edition. Originally published as THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES by Carroll & Graf in 1997 in softcover. Original crime case stories, that fill in the chronological gaps Doyle left in his Sherlock Holmes cases, together with a continuous narrative identifying places and life connections with Holmes. This superb anthology of twenty-six tales that brags an accounting of Sherlock's life and unrecorded cases, is contributed by award winning authors including Michael Doyle, Peter Crowther, Stephen Baxter, David Langford, Michael Moorcock, Denis O. Smith, David Stuart Davies, Barbara Roden, Edward D. Hoch, H.R.F. Keating, Basil Cooper, Peter Tremayne, Amy Myers, and more. Fine in textured red boards with silver embossed titles to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket. Thick Octavo; 524 pages; appendixes; contributors; plus foreword.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, Signed limited slip-cased issue. "First edition" and "Published in January 2022 by PS Publishing Ltd." statements to the copyright page. SIGNED by sixteen contributing authors! Limited to two-hundred hardcover, hand-numbered, dust jacketed and slip-cased copies SIGNED to two special limitation signature pages by: Margo Lanagan, Peter Crowther, M.T. Hill, Ian Watson, Ken MacLeod, Gwyneth Jones, Steve Aylett, Michael Moorcock, Mike Ashley, Lavie Tidhar, Michael Swanwick, Ian R. MacLeod, Alan Moore, Robert Edric, Paul Park, and James Lovegrove. This is number 138. An anthology that revives the avant garde and innovative styles of science fiction employed in New Worlds magazine in the 60s and 70s. Comprises five novelettes (including a Jerry Cornelius continuation by Moorcock), ten short stories, and two essays. A creatively attractive book design and production in crisp condition. Fine, square, very tight and probably unread in matte-laminated purple and red boards with Bob Wilkin color illustrated titles to the front cover, red headband and tail-band, purple and black Wilkin illustrated end-papers; in a fine illustrated dust jacket by designed by Michael Smith; housed in a fine purple faux leather slipcase with silver embossed titles to the front and spine panels. Octavo; 301 pages; plus introduction. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the editor. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Gavin L. O'Keefe illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight. The are a few tiny spots to the top edge of the closed text block, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Issued in a limited edition of 100 copies, this example is numbered 37 and is signed by John Pelan in green ink on a limitation plate that is tipped in on the front free endpaper (as issued). A collection of the best short stories of the British science fiction writer William F. Temple. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.