Lot 81

[FARMER, Philip José (1918-2009)]. A pair of Sherlock Holme...

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[FARMER, Philip Jos? (1918-2009)]. A pair of Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Including: BANGS, John Kendrick (1862-1922). The Dreamers. A Club. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 8vo. Illustrated with numerous illustrations by Edward Penfield. Publisher?s full brown cloth, front board stamped in black, gilt, and red, spine lettered in gilt (spine a bit toned, some rubbing, mild bumping to boards, light offsetting to endleaves). FIRST EDITION, PHILIP JOS? FARMER?S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE on the front free endpaper. With the Holmes pastiche, The Mystery of Pinkham?s Diamond Stud on pp. 185-206. -- FARMER, Philip Jos?. The Adventure of the Peerless Peer by John H. Watson, M. D. Boulder: The Aspen Press, 1974. 8vo. Publisher?s full red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; publisher?s printed dust jacket (minor occasional rubbing, some light marginal toning). FIRST EDITION. This story takes place before the outbreak of WWI; an English lord living in Africa, Lord Greystoke (a.k.a. Tarzan of the Apes) stops a German plot with the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.