The Case of the Backer Street Irregulars, Anthony Boucher. Signed & Inscribed First Edition.

The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars, Anthony Boucher First edition, first printing of this comic whodunit, featuring a fictitious cast of characters "with the exception of Sherlock Holmes, to whom this book is dedicated." Signed and inscribed by Boucher to the flyleaf in the year of publication.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. Publisher's original red cloth, lettered and decorated in black; pp. (viii), 336. An about near fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy and square, minimal wear to boards, minor foxing to foredge. Traces of offsetting to endpapers, else internally clean. Jacket shows some light general shelfwear, protected in archival mylar.