The Sherlock Homes Journal [run of the first 13 issues, Vol. 1 No. 1 May 1952 - Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 1958]

One issue Vol. 1 No 3. has extensivestaining on rear cover, appears to be mainly white paint or plaster, on rear cover. The staining is obscuring some of the lettering of the List of Members on the outer rear cover. Also a smaller stain to lower margin of front cover. Some foxing. Some light creasing to rear cover of issue 9.; The first 13 issues: Vol 1 No 1 May 1952; Vol 1 No 2 September 1952; Vol 1 No 3 June 1953; Vol 1 No 4 December 1953; Vol 2 No 1 July 1954; Vol 2 No 2 December 1954; Vol 2 No 3 Summer 1955; Vol 2 No 4 Winter 1955; Vol 3 No 1 Summer 1956; Vol 3 No 2 Winter 1956; Vol 3 No 3 Autumn 1957; Vol 3 No 4 Summer 1958; Vol 4 No 1 Winter 1958. Size varies, first 3 issues are 255 x 208mm. Issue 4 is 262 x 208mm. Issues 5 through 8 are 257 x 208mm. Issues 9 through 13 are 248 x 185mm. The first 8 issues are side-stapled. Issues 9 through 13 have the staple through the middle of the spine. First 8 issues are each from 40 to 46 pages long, with text in a typewriter font, mimeographed? First 8 issues are printed by H. A. Just and Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields. Issues 9-13 printed by offset lithography? Issues 9-13 are printed by Arthurs Press Ltd., Woodchester, Stroud. Issues 9-12 are 24 pages. Issue 13 is 28 pages. "Members have been cruelly used in not having had a Journal ere this. But now that the game is at last afoot, it is hoped that they will find in it many a pretty little problem whenever their minds rebel against stagnation." - From the Editorial, Vol. 1, No. 1, page 1. …