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Rare First Edition of The Speckled Band at Auction

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A rare item from the world of Sherlock Holmes will be up for auction. Sotheby's is offering a chance to own a first edition of the play "The Speckled Band," written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-.html" target="_blank">English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations</a> auction is set for July 12, 2016 in London. <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.153.html" target="_blank">Lot 153 is a first edition of "The Speckled Band,"</a> written in December 1909 and based on the story of the same name, which was originally published in 1892. The estimate is £5,000-7,000.<br />
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"[Doyle] took a six-month lease on the Adelphi Theatre so that The House of Temperley might be produced. The death of the King and a serious slump in audience attendance, coupled with the subject which was not thought suitable for women, meant that the run was short. 'When I saw the course that things were taking I shut myself up and devoted my whole mind to making a sensational Sherlock Holmes drama. I wrote it in a week and called it The Speckled Band after the short story of that name. I do not think that I exaggerate if I say that within a fortnight of the one play shutting down I had a company working upon the rehearsals of a second one, which had been written in the interval' (<i>Memories and Adventures</i>, p. 101). The new play was a great success. It opened at the Adelphi on 4 June 1910 and was transferred to the Globe on 8 August. It ran, in all, for 169 performances." (Green and Gibson, pp. 163-164).</blockquote>
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The play enjoyed a successful tour in England, with two touring-companies on the road by the end of August. The actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes in England was H.A. Saintsbury, who enjoyed Claude King as his Dr. Watson. Lyn Harding was cast at Dr. Rylott [sic] (a variation on the original Dr. Roylott). You may recall Harding as Professor Moriarty in the <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Arthur%20Wontner#.V3dYD7grLb0" target="_blank">Arthur Wontner films</a>. </div>
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After the success of the play, it was committed to print. According to Green and Gibson, there were four impressions of "The Speckled Band" — the first issue on thick paper, published August 1912, the text block measuring 184 x 120 mm.; the title-page with [left of a vertical rule] "New York / Samuel French / Publisher / 28-30 West 38th Street" and to the right of a vertical rule "London / Samuel French, Ltd / 26, Southampton Street / Strand"; at the foot of p.124 under a rule "Printed by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London."; and pp.125-126 consist of publisher's advertisements for the plays of Alfred Sutro, etc.</div>
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The second impression conforms textually with the first but is printed on thinner paper.<br />
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The third and fourth impressions are quite different — the text block measures 183 x 123 mm.; the title-page has the New York and London addresses reversed with the London address now being to the left of the vertical line and the New York address being to the right. The "London" address now has the addition of ",WC2"; the imprint (previously at the foot of p.124 under a rule "Printed by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London.") has now moved to the foot of p. 4 and reads "Made and Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London"; and the publisher's advertisements pp.[125-126] "The Plays of Alfred Sutro" have now been replaced with publisher's advertisements for Sherlock Holmes, and the plays of Gertrude E. Jennings.</div>
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According to <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.153.html" target="_blank">the description on Sotheby's</a>, the book (image above) is described as follows:</div>
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8vo, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, the author's dramatic adaptation of his celebrated Sherlock Holmes story, publisher's advertisements at the beginning and end, stage plot, properties plot and electric and lime plot at the end, original light green paper covers glued to spine blocked and titled in black with floral bands, some slight browning, backstrip partially unglued, slight creasing and wear to covers.</blockquote>
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Further note: the image of the item is severely cropped and no picture of the spine or rear cover is shown.<br />
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While it is not certain which impression this lot is, a previous auction at Sotheby's offered a first impression in December 1998 in Lot 382 and brought £4,200 +15% premium, for a total of £4,830. And again, Sotheby's New York sold it as Lot 88 in December 2002 for $11,000 + 20% premiumk, or a total of $13,200. More recently, Swann Galleries offered what appears to be <a href="http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2397+++++110+&refno=++709862&saletype=" target="_blank">a similar item in Lot 110 of its Sale 2397</a> in November 2015; the item appears to have gone unsold on an estimate of $10,000 - 15,000. Swann sold a different copy in May 2016 in <a href="http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2416+++++126+&refno=++714753&saletype=" target="_blank">Lot 126 in Sale 2416 for $4,500</a>, including the buyer's premium.</div>
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Rare First Edition of The Speckled Band at Auction

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It can be difficult to keep up with all of the goings-on of Sherlock Holmes online. In <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose99" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our most recent episode, Chris Redmond describes</a> the impossibility of maintaining the original mission of Sherlockian.net to document all Sherlock Holmes content on the Internet.<br />
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It's a rare thing to find a Sherlockian legend these days, but Chris Redmond, BSI ("Billy"), ASH, MBt certainly qualifies as one. From his investiture in the Baker Street Irregulars at the tender age of 16 to his long association with the Bootmakers of Toronto, he is a respected speaker at all kinds of Sherlockian events. And online, he's probably best known for his longstanding and comprehensive reference site <a href="http://sherlockian.net/">Sherlockian.net</a>.<br />
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Chris's writing output is impressive, steady and ranges from the scholarly to the humorous. <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="0889241422" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="9ceb28156eb8517fb361cd92779e837a" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="In Bed with Sherlock Holmes" href="http://www.amazon.com/Bed-Sherlock-Holmes-Elements-Detective/dp/0889241422/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=9ceb28156eb8517fb361cd92779e837a&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_3222660" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In Bed with Sherlock Holmes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_3222660" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=9ceb28156eb8517fb361cd92779e837a&_cb=1467271406022" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i>, <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="B00AVDXHNS" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="4b27c5f6ef3f4a1da5b75ee8f883474c" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes" href="http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-America-Mr-Sherlock-Holmes-ebook/dp/B00AVDXHNS/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=4b27c5f6ef3f4a1da5b75ee8f883474c&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_7856661" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_7856661" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=4b27c5f6ef3f4a1da5b75ee8f883474c&_cb=1467271423678" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i> and <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="0889242461" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="244f3b8d95f68280927d69e3de53fb8f" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="A Sherlock Holmes Handbook" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Handbook-Christopher-Redmond/dp/0889242461/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=244f3b8d95f68280927d69e3de53fb8f&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_816053" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Sherlock Holmes Handbook</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_816053" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=244f3b8d95f68280927d69e3de53fb8f&_cb=1467271442149" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i> are all well known and in depth volumes about Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective. But in this interview, we move beyond the written page and get into Chris's inspirations and aspirations (still!).<br />
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You'll learn what Chris's initial career choice was before moving along to communications and how that initial proclivity stayed with him. You'll hear about some of Chris's great speeches, from the man who loved women to the hilarious take on how to give a Sherlockian presentation. As if there isn't enough to content with in simply concepting and assembling one, Chris shares the most difficult part of compiling a comprehensive biography of some 800 individuals. And finally, we have Chris's next book to look forward to in which he challenges each of 60 authors to determine why every Sherlock Holmes story is the best.<br />
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1:50 Welcome and please take our survey at <a href="http://ihose.co/ihosesurvey">ihose.co/ihosesurvey</a><br />
5:25 Sponsor: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FR93K1O" target="_blank">Amanda Lester, Detective</a><br />
6:48 Introducing Chris Redmond<br />
8:46 First meeting with Sherlock Holmes<br />
11:25 The Toronto Public Library's Arthur Conan Doyle Collection<br />
13:21 Discovering a world of Sherlock Holmes beyond the original stories<br />
16:25 Chris gets started on the Internet<br />
20:33 Setting the course for Sherlockian.net<br />
26:19 Sponsor: <i><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/behindscreen.html" target="_blank">The Baker Street Journal</a></i><br />
27:50 Finding inspiration and training throughout one's career, and the Spiritualizing Sherlock Holmes project<br />
33:20 Developing the content for <i>A Quick Succession of Subjects</i><br />
44:50 The impact of color in the Sherlock Holmes stories<br />
48:22 Sponsor: <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/quicksuccession.html" target="_blank">Wessex Press</a><br />
49:45 <i>Lives Beyond Baker Street</i><br />
59:10 An upcoming book project: <i>About 60: Why Every Sherlock Holmes Story Is the Best</i><br />
1:04:25 What Chris is reading now and his book habits<br />
1:09:47 Wrap up<br />
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by Scott Monty

Remembering John Constable, BSI

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"They had at once sent for the doctor and for the constable" [DANC]</h4>
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<a href="http://ihose.co/ihose77" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Speckled Band of Boston</a> has a storied history that traces its roots to the early days of the Baker Street Irregulars. Founded in 1940, it is the oldest scion society of the BSI outside of the New York area (only the Five Orange Pips of Westchester County was founded earlier). And in its long history, the Band has had surprisingly few chairmen (or "Keeper," as the role is currently called).<br />
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James Keddie, Sr. was the founder, but he died suddenly in 1943 and was by followed by his son James Keddie, Jr. in the role of what was then called "Cheetah."  The executive leadership of the Band changed significantly in its earliest years. Here, the program from the 50th anniversary of the Speckled Band explains the roles and the roster:<br />
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After James Keddie, Sr. and James Keddie, Jr. had served as Cheetah, P.M. Stone was named "Stoker". Next, H.W. Bell was elected Chairman of the Band in 1945, and, following his death in 1947, Douglas Lawson took over as Chairman, later known as the Keeper.<br />
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Subsequent Keepers have been: Philip Mather, Richard Wait, James Keddie, Jr., and John Constable.</blockquote>
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John Constable, MD, BSI ("The Crooked Man") passed away peacefully at home on June 6, 2016, aged 88. He joined the Speckled Band in 1953 and was fortunate enough to know every Keeper since Douglas Lawson. He served as Keeper for 30 years and assumed the role of Keeper Emeritus in the last five years. He received his investiture in the Baker Street Irregulars in 1986.<br />
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Our own association with the Band began in 1991, when we enjoyed the now-defunct traditions of the passing of cigars and of the Keeper's amethyst snuff box. But the tradition that remained throughout his years of service is one that touched us deeply: when it was time for champagne after dinner, the Keeper himself ladled it out into coupe glasses for every member. It's a symbolic gesture that conveys that the Keeper serves the membership, and Dr. Constable was no stranger to serving others.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Constable preparing to serve the champagne at the 1992 Speckled Band dinner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Constable carrying on the tradition at the Speckled Band dinner in 2004.</td></tr>
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In order to understand Dr. Constable's commitment to service, let's step back a bit. Constable received his A.B., <i>magna cum laude</i>,<i> </i>from Harvard College in 1947 and then proceeded directly to Harvard Medical School, where he received his M.D., <i>cum laude</i>, in 1952. His residency in surgery and preceptorship in plastic surgery took place at Massachusetts General Hospital.<br />
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Interestingly—and perhaps foreshadowing his time with the Speckled Band—Constable worked in herpetology in Harvard's <a href="http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Museum of Comparative Zoology</a>. And although he abandoned wildlife conservation as a career in favor of surgery, he served on the administrative board of the Museum and with his wife Sylvia, he organized and led ecotourism trips to India, East Asia and South America.<br />
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According to his own words in the <i>Harvard Class of 1947 25th Anniversary Report</i><br />
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By the end of the second year I found that surgery has become my greatest interest and I completed a surgical internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. This training was interrupted by 2 years with the U.S. Navy where spent a year as the only doctor on a heavy cruiser in the Formosan Straits. With the help of a generous commanding officer and of the bicycle kept in the upper bunk of my cabin, I was able to see a lot of Japan and other parts of the Orient.</blockquote>
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This interest of travel in Asia was given a further boost upon Dr. Constable's application of his medical knowledge for humanitarian purposes. Again, according to the <i>25th Anniversary Report</i>,</div>
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I have been greatly influenced by three trips to Vietnam, none of which was undertaken to work in plastic surgery. In 1967, I went as one of the initial team for the Committee of Responsibility to visit almost every civilian hospital and South Vietnam in order to make the first reasonably complete survey of civilian war casualties. Subsequently I was asked to return by USAID to evaluate the very limited success of American doctors in teaching Vietnamese colleagues. On this occasion I was within three days of returning home when the Tet Offensive of 1968 resulted not only in a considerable delay in my trip and in my seeking Refuge under the bed when our hospital was invaded by the NLF, But also in a great opportunity to work closely with some really superb Vietnamese surgeons. More recently I went back as a medical member of the AAAS team evaluating the long-term destruction of the forest of Vietnam by chemical defoliants and of their possible toxicological and genetic effects on the population.</blockquote>
And of his work closer to home, Constable wrote:<br />
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The usual attempt of the academic MD to look after half a dozen half-time jobs at once keeps me professionally very busy with responsibilities in plastic surgical care and a residency training at the MGH and at the Shriners Burn Institute (a 30-bed hospital exclusively for burned children built in association with the MGH); with teaching at Harvard Medical School, and Boston University; and with clinics at the Veterans Administration, Crippled Children's and the Norfolk prison, there is limited remaining time for the private practice that has to support the rest. As a more distant consultant, I and a resident interested in plastic surgery have made annual trips to the Greenfell Mission in Newfoundland, Labrador,  where we look after the year's accumulation of plastic cases.</blockquote>
As a permanent monument to his interest in plastic surgery and international travel, Dr. Constable endowed the <a href="http://www.aaps1921.org/awards-John-D-Constable.cgi" target="_blank">John D. Constable International Traveling Fellowship</a> in the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. According to the AAPS site,<br />
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The fellowship invites an international plastic surgeon to come to the United States under the auspices of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. The goal is to improve the fellow’s understanding of American plastic surgery and to promote good will and academic interchange among surgeons of the international and American surgical communities. The chosen fellow will be in the United States as an observer for a period of 6-12 weeks under the sponsorship of members of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons.</blockquote>
The whole of Dr. Constable's professional accomplishments and accolades are impressive, including serving as the chief of plastic surgery at the Shriners Burn Institute, assistant clinical professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, chairman of the Plastic Surgical Research Council, founder of the Indochina Surgical Education Exchange. Because of his extensive work in plastic surgery and research in their country, Dr. Constable received the Order of Friendship from the Government of Vietnam.<br />
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In both the 25th and 50th Anniversary Reports, Dr. Constable listed some of his interests and hobbies, and memberships associated with each: the Tavern Club and Somerset Club in Boston; chairman of the Boston Concert Opera, co-chair of the Cambridge Arts Council, and chairman of the conservation committee at the New England Aquarium.<br />
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Based on a career laden with such selflessness and service, it's easy to see why Dr. Constable was eager to ladle out the champagne to Speckled Band members every year.<br />
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A personal recollection</h4>
To your editor, there were three things that stood out about John Constable. The first is that his voice was distinctive. One couldn't quite pinpoint the accent; was it English? Or perhaps a patrician-style Boston accent? Combined with a James Mason-like tenor tone, it was one of the most memorable, certainly. Your editor may have even tried to approximate an impression on more than one occasion.<br />
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The second is that to us, he will always be "Dr. Constable." That's how he was introduced to us. It's how we always referred to him. To call him "John" just didn't seem to fit. Similar to how hearing "Sherlock" and "John" rather than Holmes and Watson cause us to tense up a bit. Perhaps that bit of Victorian/Edwardian tradition still remained in Dr. Constable.<br />
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The third is a memory of a classroom experience in graduate school. In taking a class on medical insurance at the Boston University School of Public Health, your editor was fortunate enough to have had Peter Hiam, former Commissioner of Insurance for Massachusetts, as an instructor. The first thing you need to know is that in Massachusetts, the Commissioner sets the rates for medical procedures; the second thing is that surgeons and the Commissioner have traditionally been on adversarial terms.<br />
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So, one day in class, as Prof. Hiam was giving a lecture on insurance rate setting, he recalled a time in which he had to give a speech to a gathering of plastic surgeons at a dinner. To say that he was nervous to appear before his accusers would have been an understatement. Hiam recounted,<br />
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"They gave me a polite—but not warm—reception and after my speech, the chairman took the podium, turned in my direction and said, 'Your rates are not...generous, but they are...adequate.'"</blockquote>
At which I point, I raised my hand from the back of the room and asked,<br />
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"Was that John Constable?"</blockquote>
The instructor nearly fell over with shock and amazement, and then asked,<br />
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"How could you possibly know <i>that</i>?"</blockquote>
It's a long story.<br />
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A long and memorable one. Wishing you godspeed and eternal peace, Dr. Constable.<br />
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His official obituary can be found <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=john-davidson-constable&pid=180307654" target="_blank">here</a> and a longer reminiscence can be <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/08/04/john-constable-plastic-surgeon-honored-for-humanitarian-work-vietnam-dies/MHbfKrktImJFGZzWE7fe0M/story.html" target="_blank">found in the <i>Boston Globe</i></a>; a memorial service will be held in October.<br />
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