ver at the Baker Street Blog (my favourite daily reading), Scott reflects on the growth of this collection, which seems to be an occupational hazard among Sherlockians –myself included, much to the chagrin of my wife– and points to a brief but useful article for beginners over at AbeBooks: Clues on Collecting Sherlock Holmes.

Clues on Collecting Sherlock Holmes
by Phillip Gold, ABAA
221Books, Westlake Village, CA, USA

Phillip Gold, who has selected this issue’s Pick of the Month, shares some elementary tips on how to collect books featuring the famous detective.

Assembling a collection of cornerstone titles will be a challenging, and perhaps a lifelong endeavor. But don’t fail to inject some of your own interests and perspectives into the process. That’s the secret to assembling a unique and significant collection. Books about the world’s first consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have been a consistently popular collecting genre since the appearance of A Scandal in Bohemia in The Strand Magazine in July 1891.

(Via the Baker Street Journal blog.)

Those wanting to find an online version of the famous “Shaw 100″ can find it within the doors of The Diogenes Club, as well as within the social book-cataloguing club LibaryThing.