Carnegie Mellon's Posner Collection.

"I clapped a pistol to his
head." Illust. Sidney Paget
The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes

Carnegie Mellon's Posner Collection allows bibliophiles to look at the rare books in its collection online, page by page. The following books from the collection may be of interest to genre fans:

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first ed. (1892), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illus. Sidney Paget

• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, first ed. (1894), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illus. Sidney Paget

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, limited ed. (1952), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illus. Edward A. Wilson

• The Time Machine: An Invention (1895), by H. G. Wells (dedicated to W. E. Henley)