The Complete Sherlock Holmes. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. With a Preface by Christopher Morley. De Luxe Edition. New York: Garden City publishing, [1930]. Pp xvi, 1323. Handsomey bound in quarter calf over marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands, with lettering & devices stamped in gilt. A fine bright copy.

Contains all four novels and fifty-six short stories (the complete canon).

Christopher Morley’s preface is one of the earliest serious, literary appreciations of Sherlock Holmes as a timeless archetype rather than a mere popular fiction character.