Add this copy of Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street; the Life of the World to cart. $42.50, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Bramhall House.
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Good in Good jacket. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.125 inches. 336 pages. Playbill [Table of Contents]. Appendix I. The Chronological Holmes. Appendix II: The Bibliographical Holmes: A Selective Compilation. The dust jacket has wear, s, chips and soiling. William Stuart Baring-Gould (1913 – 10 August 1967) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective. In 1955, Baring-Gould privately published The Chronological Holmes, an attempt to lay out, in chronological order, all the events alluded to in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Three years later, Baring-Gould wrote The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and Explained with his wife, Lucile "Ceil" Baring-Gould. The book provides a wealth of information about nursery rhymes and includes often-banned bawdy rhymes. In 1967, Baring-Gould published The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, an annotated edition of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Baring-Gould also wrote The Lure of the Limerick, a study of the history and allure of limericks, published in 1967; it included a collection of limericks, arranged alphabetically, and a bibliography. In 1969 was published posthumously Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-fifth Street: The Life and Times of America's Largest Private Detective, a fictional biography of Rex Stout's detective character Nero Wolfe; in this book, Baring-Gould popularized the theory that Wolfe was the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective is a 1962 novel by William S. Baring-Gould. The book purports to be a biography of Sherlock Holmes. It is considered to be the "definitive" biography of Sherlock Holmes. Some aspects of the book were loosely based on the life of Baring-Gould's paternal grandfather, Sabine Baring-Gould. Many of the theories put forth by Baring-Gould have become accepted knowledge about Sherlock Holmes, such as the full name "William Sherlock Scott Holmes", which is used in the film Sherlock Holmes in New York starring Roger Moore and the episode "His Last Vow" from series 3 of the BBC television series Sherlock. Other details established by Baring-Gould, such as Professor Moriarty being Holmes' childhood mathematics tutor, that Holmes was once an actor, and the continuing affair and one-night stand with Irene Adler, leading up to the birth of a son (who is implied in the book to be Nero Wolfe), have continued to be a part of the Great Game and have been used in other Sherlockian pastiches. The book also offers one of the earliest versions of Sherlock Holmes meeting Jack the Ripper. Five years later in 1967, Baring-Gould would go on to publish The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which would also be considered definitive, at least until Leslie S. Klinger published The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes in 2004–2005. Baring-Gould used many biographical details that he invented in Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street for his two annotated volumes.
Add this copy of Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, : the Life of the to cart. $81.45, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Very Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! NY: Clarkson N Potter 1962. Stated 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 336 pgs. Signed and inscribed on front endpaper 'Dear Hal Let me recommend this book...With Best Regards 'Bill' William S Baring-Gould Apr 4 1962'. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Something was removed from front pastedown leaving some residue. Small owner's stamp and toning on front endpaper. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is edgeworn and chipped. 5.00 orig price on front flap. (mystery, fictional biography, sherlock holmes) Inquire if you need further information.
