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Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1945. Rebuffed after writing Arthur Conan Doyle to ask if he could write Holmes stories, the young Derleth created his own Sherlock Holmesian character, Solar Pons; this is the first collection of his tales. Foreword by Vincent Starrett. INSCRIBED to a collector by the author "For K---- K----- -- Greetings from a latter day… Read more about this item

Sauk City, WI. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1945. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Jacket has strip of tape running the entire length of the jacket at top and bottom edges; this has discolored the jacket on back panel and flaps. Jacket has a few small chips and tears, foxing and/or… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 238pp. Sharp First Edition. One of 3000 copies printed, though 3604 copies were actually published, (Jaffrey p.23). Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some softness to the heel. Equally attractive clipped Ronald Clyne dust-jacket has a touch of wear to spine ends… Read more about this item

The first Solar Pons collection, starting Derleth's long association with Sherlock Holmes pastiches. He had already made a name for himself with Lovecraft homages, so why not branch out? Like his Lovecraftian fiction, his Sherlockian pieces show complete familiarity with both what is good and what is bad about what he's referencing: Pons' solutions are very rarely as surprising as… Read more about this item

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1945. Full black cloth, red titling. Light edgewear, jacket spine faded & tanned, edges worn, price-clipped. First printing of Derleth's first collection of Solar Pons Sherlock Holmes pastiches, INSCRIBED by Derleth to publisher Carroll Coleman: "Greetings from Baker Street | for Carroll Coleman | from one publisher to another -- | Sincerely | August… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1945. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. 1st ptg., small 8vo, full black cloth, one of 3,000 copies of these Holmesian tales. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dj, with the custom bookplate of Chris Redmond, noted Canadian Sherlockian.

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 3604 copies printed. xv, 238pp. Black cloth lettered in red on the spine. Signed and inscribed by August Derleth on the front free endpaper: "For Adolph F. Nicolai / with cordial regards / Sincerely / August F. Derleth." The first collection of Solar Pons stories. Introduction by Vincent Starrett.… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Mycroft And Moran. 1945. First Edition. NF/VG+, lower corners of book bumped, otherwise fine. The DJ has minor chipping head/foot of spine and corners. Spine darkened. Protected in mylar. ; 12mo, black cloth, red lettering spine, DJ, 238pp. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. .

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1952. Hardcover. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Small 8vo. Black cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. xv, 238pp. Near fine/very good. Very slightest bit of jacket edgewear. First edition. Solar Pons pastiches, tight and handsome and very scarce. Limited to 3000 copies.

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran (Arkham House), 1945. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first of the Solar Pons collections. 3604 copies printed. Fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket.

Mycroft and Moran, 1945. Hardcover. Very good/Good. First printing of 3000cc. Covers have mild edgewear. Dust jacket worn and chipped.

Manchester: Belanger Books, 2018. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. Very good. wraps, 272 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Mycroft and Moran, 1945. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket First edition, first printing . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Sauk City, Wi.: Mycroft and Moran , 1945. Nice copy in its first printing;. Unmarked, tight and square. Text tanned but still supple. Price intact jacket a bit tanned to white portions with light edgewear but virtually no paper loss. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read more about this item

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 238pp. Sharp First Edition. One of 3000 copies printed, though it has been estimated that there were actually 3604 copies were actually published, (Jaffrey p.23). Square tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild bumping to spine ends. Very attractive clipped wrapper has minor wear… Read more about this item

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Slight shelf wear, crease spine of dust jacket.

mMYCROFT AND MORAN, 1945 HARDBACK BOOK AND UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET [$2.50] IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,SLIGHT WEAR AT ENDS OF SPINE,LIMITED TO THREE THOUSAND COPIES. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

IN RE:SHERLOCK HOLMES", Mycroft & Moran, 1945, first edition, fine in just about fine dust-wrapper with some slight dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Solar Pons #1. INSCRIBED by the author, "Greetings from a later day Baker street," canonically yours, August Derleth. 1/3,000 copies.

Mycroft and Moran, 1945. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket First edition, first printing . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. First edition. One of 3000 copies. xv, 238 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Fine, in gently worn dust jacket. First edition. One of 3000 copies. xv, 238 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Currey p. 147