A Ballad of the White Plague: The Casebook
Eugene, Oregon: Hypatia Press, 1998.
Illustrated by the author. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, dark blue cloth, ix, 129pp, frontis. illus., illus. of a collage and collage map, decorated endpapers. Item #900509
#15 of a limited edition of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. According to the author, fewer than 100 copies of this book are in existence.
Consists of the rewritten final draft of a story that first appeared in The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (St. Martin's Press, 1998), with earlier drafts, correspondence with the editor, commentary, and two ghosts - giving the reader a step-by-step process in its creation. It is a Sherlock Holmes fantasy written by Dr. Watson's about Holmes childhood experience with a vampyric young cousin during a tuberculosis epidemic.
As new in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $250.00