The Baker Street Journal

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We do have the standard edition versions of:
So Painful a Scandal
and
Papers at an Exhibition

The special Limited Edition Boxed Set includes the following four items:

1) So Painful A Scandal
The sixth title in The Baker Street Irregulars Manuscript Series, this volume features a facsimile of the original manuscript of "The Adventure of the Three Students" held by Harvard's Houghton Library, along with commentary about the story.  Edited and introduced by John Bergquist, the volume includes Phillip Bergem's notes on the manuscript, Randall Stock's history of its travels, and Nick Utechin's criticism of the story's premises. Also featured are articles by Michael Eckman, Guy Marriott, Oliver Nicholson, and Andrew Malec.  For more details about the book and the table of contents, see the standard edition of So Painful a Scandal.

2) Papers at an Exhibition
Proceedings from the May 7-9, 2009 Harvard Symposium.
This volume showcases 14 presentations designed to reflect the symposium's focus of broadening our understanding of Doyle in light of recent biographical studies; examining the enduring popularity of the Sherlockian Canon; revisiting the non-canonical fiction, historical and social writings; and witnessing Doyle's legacy as promoted by literary societies and through teaching.

Edited by Peter X. Accardo, John Bergquist, and Dan Posnansky, the Symposium Proceedings include papers by Doyle biographers Daniel Stashower and Andrew Lycett; by professors Giles Constable, Eve Mayer, and Charles J. Rzepka; and by such other experts as Glen Miranker, Leslie Klinger, Thomas J. Francis, Steve Rothman, Richard Olken, and Randall Stock.  For more details about the book and the titles of all the papers, see the standard edition of Papers at an Exhibition.

The limited edition volume comes in a matching Harvard crimson binding with gold stamping, and includes additional material not found in the trade edition.  It is signed by the editor and all of the contributors on a special, hand-numbered limitation page.

254 pages, hardcover, January 2010

3) Ever Westward: Arthur Conan Doyle and American Culture
Edited by Peter X. Accardo, this annotated catalog was produced for Harvard's Conan Doyle exhibition of May-August 2009.  Curated by Peter X. Accardo, Dan Posnansky, and Glen Miranker, this major exhibition features rare books, manuscripts, and ephemera from Houghton Library collections (including the H. W. Bell/Speckled Band of Boston collection of Sherlockiana and the recently donated Baker Street Irregulars archive) and private collections.

The limited edition volume comes in a matching Harvard crimson binding with gold stamping.  It is numbered and signed by Peter Accardo and Dan Posnansky.

61 pages, hardcover, January 2010

4) Slipcase
The set comes with a gold-stamped slipcase displaying the outline of a previously-unpublished Frederic Dorr Steele drawing for "The Three Students."

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