The Second Cab: Fifteen Sherlockian Essays. Limited Edition. Privately Printed for a Sherlockian Society. Foreword by Vincent Starrett.

KEDDIE, James, Jr., Editor. The Second Cab: Fifteen Sherlockian Essays, One Sonnet and a Quiz. Boston: Stoke Moran for The Speckled Band, 1947.

Limited Edition, one of 300 copies, this being No. 125. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8vo). [12], 13–93, [1] pp. Original gray pebbled printed wraps, stapled, with illustrated front wrapper depicting a horse cab and driver.

Privately printed for the Sherlockian society The Speckled Band, this collection contains fifteen Sherlockian essays, a sonnet, and a quiz, with contributions by James Keddie, Sr., Edgar W. Smith, Helen Yuhasova, Herbert F. West, Henry C. Clark, P. M. Stone, and others. With a foreword by Vincent Starrett, it is one of the scarcer postwar Sherlockian publications and an important work for collectors of Sherlock Holmes scholarship.

Provenance: From the Sherlock Holmes collection of Lawrence P. Dodge, assembled beginning in the early 1930s and acquired directly from Dodge descendants. Part of a long-held Sherlockian library containing early Doyle editions and classic works of Holmes scholarship.

Contents clean and unmarked. Binding remains sound. Wraps with light soiling and sunning, primarily along the edges and spine. A well-preserved example of this scarce Sherlockian publication.
[Attributes: First Edition; First Printing; Limited Edition.]