[SHERLOCKIANA]. LANCELYN GREEN, Richard (1953-2004). A Collection of Volumes By and About Richard Lancelyn Green, Many Signed and Inscribed. [V.p.], ca. 1970s-1990s. TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES BY AND ABOUT THE FOREMOST SHERLOCKIANA SCHOLAR, MANY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BAKER STREET IRREGULAR MEMBERS. Including: My Evening with Sherlock Holmes, #9/100, signed; The Unknown Conan Doyle: Uncollected Stories, inscribed to Ted Shulz (with J.M. Gibson bookplate laid-in); Sherlock Holmes Letters, inscribed to John Ruyle; Letters to the Press, inscribed; "Holmes This is Amazing," #75/250, signed; A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle, inscribed to Dan Siegel with a laid-in personal note; The Mystery of Spot Ball: An Unrecorded 1893 Sherlock Homes Parody, signed; eight issues of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, 1991-2008; and others. Complete list available upon request. 

Lancelyn Green's contribution to Doyle and Holmes scholarship is unrivaled, having written or edited hundreds of books or articles. His collection of books on “Doyleiana” and Sherlockiana was one of the largest held in private hands. He was an active member of several Doyle or Holmes societies and was working on an in-depth biography of Doyle at the time of his death. His death involved suitably mysterious circumstances, with some considering his death suicide, but some believing it to be murder - not unlike the events of the Holmes story, The Problem of Thor Bridge (1922). Green’s death inspired a novel (The Sherlockian by Graham Moore, 2010), and a play (Mysterious Circumstances by Michael Mitnick, 2019, performed at The Geffen Playhouse starring Alan Tudyk - with Green’s alleged murder investigated by the great detective himself).

General light rubbing, toning, edge wear and handling. Near fine overall.