December 2021 Auction for the Trust

<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK11k8_hnLAnTH5sSOsu2AMEytDalkzaRHoY03otkWI_9k5IHYM_oGOycEqg2S-4mmsd49VH3YIbiEfs2oD6qV9Mx4xU6slvWTOPy4spwVDdvEl08QBRgNj1pBN8i4ArKcHfr04B3g1J4/s1600/auction-2021-strand-covers-v2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Strand Magazines in 2021 auction" border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="1600" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK11k8_hnLAnTH5sSOsu2AMEytDalkzaRHoY03otkWI_9k5IHYM_oGOycEqg2S-4mmsd49VH3YIbiEfs2oD6qV9Mx4xU6slvWTOPy4spwVDdvEl08QBRgNj1pBN8i4ArKcHfr04B3g1J4/w640-h174/auction-2021-strand-covers-v2.jpg" title="Click this Strand Magazine photo to see a larger version" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>More than 150 rare issues of <i>The Strand Magazine</i> will go to auction in December to support the BSI Trust. These include a complete run of <b>all </b>the Holmes stories in the UK <i>Strand, </i>as well as a complete set of issues from the New York <i>Strand </i>for <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>. <p></p><p>Other rarities offered by the BSI Trust include more than 70 issues of the <i>Strand </i>with non-Sherlockian writings by Conan Doyle, as well as a number of Sherlock Holmes first edition books.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-hzE4RpUCtSPBmyZmNLNSezRov3SenaTNdUf3NYY3tZIc4AqlAmVzqMBLeXpPiDeKKRGHnh7_1jcLh705A4pqoitGQUyXu-mPu6nQLY9ABvRdToUkoLgUPkbQsAQV18xlnNi2XwqJfc/s440/costa-rossakis.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Costa Rossakis, BSI" border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="440" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-hzE4RpUCtSPBmyZmNLNSezRov3SenaTNdUf3NYY3tZIc4AqlAmVzqMBLeXpPiDeKKRGHnh7_1jcLh705A4pqoitGQUyXu-mPu6nQLY9ABvRdToUkoLgUPkbQsAQV18xlnNi2XwqJfc/w200-h190/costa-rossakis.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />Costa Rossakis donated all of this material to the BSI Trust in late 2019.  Rossakis holds one of the world's greatest collections of Sherlockian material.  He is a founder and former co-chair of the BSI Trust, and remains on its board. Costa has authored numerous articles on Sherlockian bibliography.  In 2005 he won the Morley-Montgomery Award for the best BSJ article of the year. He co-edited the BSI Manuscript Series book <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/12/30/worst-man-in-london/">The Worst Man in London</a> (2019).<p></p><p>Heritage Auctions will offer these items in its December 9-10, 2021 Signature Book Auction #6241.  Funds from the sale of this material will go to support BSI Trust activities.</p><div><div>Follow the links below to the Heritage Auctions website, which includes detailed descriptions and numerous photos of this material.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/arthur-conan-doyle-the-complete-run-of-the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-issued-in-the-strand-magazine/p/6241-11001.s">The Complete Run of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine (UK).</a></div><div>London: George Newnes, 1891-1927. Seventy-nine issues.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/periodicals/arthur-conan-doyle-the-complete-run-of-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-issued-in-the-strand-magazine-us-new-york-the-internat/p/6241-11002.s">The Hound of the Baskervilles in The Strand Magazine (US)</a></div><div>New York: The International News Co., Sept. 1901 – May 1902. Nine issues.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/arthur-conan-doyle-seventy-six-issues-of-the-strand-magazine-uk-london-george-n-total-50-/p/6241-11003.s">Arthur Conan Doyle: Seventy-Six issues of The Strand Magazine (UK)</a></div><div>London: George Newnes, 1891-1930. Featuring non-Holmes Doyle works.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/arthur-conan-doyle-three-sherlock-holmes-novels-the-valley-of-fear-his-last-bow-and-andlt-total-3-/p/6241-11004.s">Three Sherlock Holmes First Editions (rebound)</a></div><div>The <i>Valley of Fear</i> (NY: Doran, [1914]), <i>His Last Bow</i> (London: Murray, 1917), <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i> (London: Murray, [1927]).</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/arthur-conan-doyle-three-sherlock-holmes-novels-new-york-george-h-doran-1914-1917-first-total-3-/p/6241-11005.s">Three Sherlock Holmes First Editions</a></div><div><i>The Valley of Fear</i> (NY: Doran, [1914]), <i>His Last Bow</i> (London: Murray, 1917), <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i> (London: Murray, [1927]).</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/arthur-conan-doyle-two-sherlock-holmes-novels-the-valley-of-fear-and-the-case-total-2-/p/6241-11006.s">Two Sherlock Holmes First Editions</a></div><div><i>The Valley of Fear</i> (NY: Doran, [1914]), <i>The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes</i> (NY, Doran, [1927] second impression).</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

December 2021 Auction for the Trust

More than 150 rare issues of The Strand Magazine will go to auction in December to support the BSI Trust. These include a complete run of a...

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