Book finds in Stockholm

As part of my trip this week I have a few posts - the first will be the easiest. While walking in Stockholm I passed a used book store ('Antikvariat') called Antikvariat August (https://antikvariataugust.se/) at Drottninggatan 85, Stockholm. While it was a relatively small store, my eyes immediately fell on three of the red cardboard-covered books published under the BSI label by Edgar Smith. They are actually reprints of rare of classic Sherlockian books, and I was pleased to find them:

There are two series of BSI publications of identical page size, and identical appearance: softbound with a red cardboard cover. The first is the Sherlockian reprints published largely in the 1950s by Edgar W. Smith (including the three shown above) in a series termed the 'Baker Street Incunabula'. The second is the 'BSI Historical Series' published from 1989 to the mid-1990s by John Lellenberg with others. The incunabula reprints were organized by Smith as he recognized that classic Sherlockian publications became difficult to access for Sherlockians: "the demand was small, the supply was even smaller" as Smith puts it. Of course, these reprints are now also relatively rare - each was printed with several hundred (sometimes numbered) copies in the print run.

As far as I can determine, the Incunabula are comprised of the following reprints. This information is extracted from introductions to the volumes I have, and the list is in chronological order of reprinting by Smith. I cannot identify a further publication after the 1960 reprint of Beeton's. Given that each re-print required permission from publishers or copyright holders, it is remarkable that Smith was able to achieve what he did with this reprint series.

1953. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: the Chronology of Their Adventures, by H.W. Bell.

1954. Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction?, by T.S. Blakeney.

1955. Baker Street Studies, by H.W. Bell.

1956. 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes, edited by Vincent Starratt.

1957. Baker Street and Beyond: Together with Some Trifling Monographs, by Edgar W. Smith.

1958. The Incunabular Sherlock Holmes, edited by Edgar W. Smith.

1959. Introducing Mr. Sherlock Holmes, by Edgar W. Smith.

1960. Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. This includes Doyle's 'A Study in Scarlet', and was co-printed with the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.

1962. The Writings of John H. Watson, M.D., by Edgar W. Smith.