Continuing to build the BSI library

I think in my very first post I stated that:

"my niche passion is books published by the 'Baker Street Irregulars'. This includes books published by the Press, earlier books published under that name, and the Baker Street Journal. I am often frustrated at small print runs and out of print books, and hope to share what I learn about BSI books and their content. I'll share the journey of bringing together all BSI books - of course it might never happen."

Little did I realise that it would be so difficult - I was naive - and as this blog will attest I have enjoyed other collecting goals that can provide satisfaction. A full list of books published by BSI can be found here. 

The latest two books have been tricky to find:

Left: Fifty Years in Baker Street. 2010. Jens Byskov Jensen provides a "50-year history of The Cimbrian Friends, a Danish scion society". 

As a side-note, this book has a non-ideal feature... on the cover an. 'owners label' has been affixed (why on the cover??). The owner was Mr. Charles Creager of Ohio. IMDB shows Creager acted as Inspectort Ferguson in "Sherlock Holmes" (2011) - Peter Blau tells me it was a re-make of Rathbone’s “The Women in Green”. No other Sherlockian connections to Creager are known. As an aside, I seem to recall being told by someone in Danish circles that there were 80 copies of this book published.

Right: Peter E. Blau: A Festschrift. 2018. "In celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of his receiving the Irregular Shilling, several friends of Peter banded together, under the editorship of Les Klinger, and produced this Festschrift in his honor. Printed in a very limited edition, it contains biographical information, photos, and reminiscences of Peter and his many contributions to The Baker Street Irregulars". I believe about 150 copies of this book were published - on the BSI page some books have the number of copies published, others like this have a statement like 'very limited edition', and others state nothing.

I'm certainly getting there in collecting it all, but it will take time. I also just finally completed the collection of all BSJ Christmas Annuals, and will post on that soon.

So here's where things stand... the bottom two shelves shown are all BSI publications, the upper shelf is not (with one exception, which is why I didn't crop it).

The search continues!!