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DERLETH, AUGUST. CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS.. mycroft & moran. , 1965, first edition ,,, 1965.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: very good slightly darker spine, corner chips, some rear discoloring, price clip jacket only, NO BOOK
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solat Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1965.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Very good with np dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering and designs on spine. Gilt is still fairly bright. Foredge of front board is a little rubbed, with just slight loss of cloth. Owner's neat stamp on unprinted inside of rear endpaper Includes map endpapers, Foreword by Vincent Starrett, a monograph by Michael Harrison, and an Afterword by the author; 281 pages. One of 3000 copies.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
August Derleth. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft and Moran, Sauk City , Wisconson, 1965.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jacket has closed tear at front hinge area. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Blair Books & Antiques, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
DERLETH,AUGUST. THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS. MYCROFT AND MORAN, 1965.
Price: US$72.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK BOOK AND UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET [$5.00] IN NEAR FINE CONDITION
Seller: Bingo Books 2, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo., 281pp. Sharp First Printing, one of only 3020 copies printed of this fourth volume in the Solar Pons series, (Jaffery p.85). Square, tight and clean throughout with some gentle bumping to the spine ends and bottom front tip. Attractive clipped jacket, has a touch of toning to spine and edges. Small rubs to spine. Minor edge-wear. Still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS. Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, Sauk City, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Collects twelve stories with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison. Previous ownership stamps to front and rear paste downs and the base of the title page, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small rub spot to base of front panel and thin damp strip to verso of upper front panel edge with a thin residue to upper front cover. (19714)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 12mo, 281 pages, black cloth; dj has one short tear [DeWaal *****; P. Herbert p.13]. Edition of 3000 copies. With a monograph by Michael Harrison and an Afterword by A. Derleth
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
August Derleth. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 19 x 13 cm. 12mo. 281pp. Black cloth in price clipped dust jacket. One of 3000 copies. Foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monography by Michael Harrison. Some shelf wear to the jacket. Tail of spine is lightly bumped.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft and Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1965.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Murder mystery stories in the Sherlockian vein. Damp stain 1 inch long on edge only on pages up to p.44.
Seller: Eyrie House Books, Tyngsboro, MA, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS. Mycroft & Moran, 1965.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS, Mycroft & Moran, 1965, first edition, fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
DERLETH,AUGUST. THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS. MYCROFT AND MORAN, 1965.
Price: US$87.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK BOOK AND UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET [$5.00] IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,LIMITED THREE THOUSAND COPIES
Seller: Bingo Books 2, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Casebook of Solar Pons by August Derleth (First Edition) A sharp, tight, copy. A touch of rubbing to corners. Bright gilt to spine. A bright dust jacket. Minor edgewear. Jacket in clear protective cover. Not price-clipped. First Edition with colophon and no later printings mentioned. Limited to 3000 copies.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
August Derleth. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran / (Arkham House), 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collection of Solar Pons "Sherlock Holmes"-style detective pastiches. VG; binding flaw on back with split in spine seam Novelex; in near fine jacket.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3020 copies printed. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild tanning to spine panel and rear flap fold, the latter with some show through. (#140831)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3020 copies printed. Light bruise to lower rear corner tip, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#140204)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: One of 3,000 [3,020] copies printed. Fifth volume of Derleth's character Solar Pons, written in imitation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Joshi, M7. Mild foxing to top edge, minor pressing to spine tips, else near fine in near fine, lightly toned dust jacket with slight wear to tips and rubbing to spine verso, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Solar Pons Canon is generally conceded to be the best series of Sherlockian pastiches.ever
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
August Derleth. the Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft and Moran, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: introduction by Vincent Starrett,
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo. [9], x-xviii, [3], 4-281, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering and gold decorations on the spine. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison. Joshi 180. Wilson 315. A collection of short stories that Derleth wrote, a pastiche of Sherlock Holmes. A small waterspot on the fore-edge of the first several leaves; jacket has a few traces of edge wear.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
August Derleth. the Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft and Moran, 1965.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: foreword by Vincent Starrett,
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
DERLETH, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Duodecimo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. 281 pp. Previous owner's book plate affixed front free endpaper, otherwise near fine in original leatherette with gilt lettering on spine, still bright, and very good in original pictorial dust jacket.
Seller: Bagatelle Books, IOBA, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS. Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, Sauk City, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Collects twelve stories with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to extremities. (4763)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
DERLETH, AUGUST. THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS. MYCROFT & MORAN 1965, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in Fine dj, US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover WARMLY INSCRIBED BY MICHAEL HARRISON WHOSE MONOGRAPH TO . Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions. We are always looking to buy hardcover Mysteries and Thrillers.
Seller: Mystery Mike's, Carmel, IN, U.S.A.
August Derleth. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, 1965.
Price: US$134.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Casebook of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1965 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,020 copies. It was the sixth collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. First edition. Octavo, cloth. Collects twelve stories with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to extremities. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cover Art; This edition is limited to 3000 copies (3020 according to the Arkham House Companion). Mostly). This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light rubbing to the rear panel. This book includes a foreword by Vincent Starrett. Included is a series of twelve short story pastiches on Sherlock Holmes -- and the book (along with the others in this series) duplicates the format of the original Sherlock Holmes compilations(for a detailed discussion of this parallel, read the entries in the Arkham House Companion). Short stories include: The Adventure of the Sussex Archers, The Adventure of the Haunted Library, The Adventure of the Fatal Glance, The Adventure of the Intarsia Box, The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane, The Adventure of the China Cottage, The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal, The Adventure of the Crouching Dog, The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman, The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist, The Adventure of the Whispering Knights, The Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk, and, Afterword. "The actual Sherlock Holmes also exists in Pons's world: Pons and Parker are aware of the famous detective and hold him in high regard. Whereas Holmes' adventures took place primarily in the 1880s and 1890s, Pons and Parker live in the 1920s and 1930s. Pons fans also regard Derleth as having given Pons his own distinctly different personality, far less melancholy and brooding than Holmes's. The Pons stories also cross over, at times, with the writings of others, such as Derleth's literary correspondent H. P. Lovecraft in "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders", Fu Manchu author Sax Rohmer, and Carnacki the Ghost-Finder in "The Adventure of the Haunted Library"." (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, Sauk City, WI, 1965.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED. 281pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped spine. Near fine. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with very subtly rubbed edges. Signed by Derleth on the title page: "Canonically, August Derleth". From the jacket- "The steadily expanding devotees of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street will hail with delight this crowning volume in a series of collections which have now pastiched the entire quintet of the Master's adventures."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran (Arkham House), Sauk City, WI, 1965.
Price: US$153.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: F/F dj, now in archival Brodart, an unread copy. From the collection and estate of noted SF/F/H & comic collector Kennett Neily - owner of the White Mountain Comic Collection - with his name and date of purchase, February 11, 1967, written to ffep.
Seller: Dark Hollow Books®, Member NHABA, IOBA, Wolfeboro Falls, NH, U.S.A.
DERLETH, August.. The Casebook of Solar Pons.. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, 1965.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: With a Foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison. xviii, 282 pp. 12mo, publisher's black cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Bookplate; a few very unobtrusive spots to cloth; otherwise fine in a jacket with a very slightly tanned spine. Signed by Derleth on the half-title.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, 1965.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Foreword by Vincent Starrett.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HB Inscribed by Derleth
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
DERLETH, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1965.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Foreword by Vincent Starrett. Small 8vo. Black cloth, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 281pp. Map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Very slightest of jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and handsome and very scarce. Limited to 3000 copies.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Casebook of Solar Pons. Mycroft and Moran, 1965.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket First edition, first printing
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: B/W Illustrated Endpapers Of London Map of Solar Pons Small scuff Mark, B/W Photo of Derleth Back DJ Taken by Edgar Obma, HBDJ, 1965, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright Pg, BOOK CVR G00D- / VG- Dustjacket Condition AS-IS, Front Cover LARGE obtrusive DAMP Stain & Light Wear, BACK CVR DAMP STAIN ALONG EDGE, 1st LIMITED Edition of 3,000 Copies, , 1st Printing , Dates Match on Title & Copyright Pg, Interior Nice Tight Clean Light Wear , FOX, 282 Pgs, Fox Stains to Endpapers, Plain Black Binding Cloth Cover is Hollison Black Novelex, DJ LIGHT RUB, WEAR, Tiny Chips & Tear Extremities & Spine Ends, Crease Fold Front Right side of DJ has Thin Horizontal splice Out of in. Back DJ Lightly Foxed & Light Scuff , has Photo of Sypnosis of Author, , Spine Cvr is Titled & Designed Decorated in Black & Gold Gilt has some Rub. Wear, , 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 IN.Duodecimo [19 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped spine , in Spooky B/W & Orange DustJacket of Sherlock Holmes Standing Beside Orange Lamp & Dr. Watson Seated Holding his Eye Glasses, , Seated in Room Looking Out Window at Castle Like House with Full Moon Above & a Man can be Seen in its Lighted Window at Night, DJ art by Frank Utpatel, The steadily expanding devotees of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street will hail with delight this crowning volume in a series of collections which have now pastiched the entire quintet of the Master's adventures, When August Derleth wrote Arthur Conan Doyle in 1928 to ask if there were to be any more Sherlock Holmes stories, he was given a curt "no". Thus was born Solar Pons, the twentieth century flag carrier for Mr. Holmes and the brainchild of Derleth.
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1965. First Edition. One of three thousand copies printed. Signed by the author, "Best Wishes, August Derleth", on the half-title, without further inscription. Octavo, 281 pp. Black cloth, with bright gilt illustration and lettering on spine. Near Fine, with small stains on front and top page edges (see scan), in a near fine jacket with small amount of rubbing at bottom front cover. Sharp copy. See all scans. When August Derleth wrote Arthur Conan Doyle in 1928 to ask if there were to be any more Sherlock Holmes stories, he was given a curt "no". Thus was born Solar Pons, the twentieth century flag carrier for Mr. Holmes and the brainchild of Derleth. At first cloning Holmes as Solar Pons and Dr. Watson as Dr. Lyndon Parker, and using essentially the same modus operandi for the pair, the talented Derleth couldn't help but insert himself, and Pons became his own man, still solving cases the same way as Holmes, but working in the 1920's and 1930's, and "not so much a 19th century man looking into the 20th as a 20th century man harkening back to the 19th". Derleth's body of work with this duo includes "In Re: Sherlock Holmes", "The Memoirs of Solar Pons", "Three Problems for Solar Pons", "The Return of Solar Pons", "The Reminiscences of Solar Pons", "The Adventure of the Orient Express", "The Casebook of Solar Pons" [this title], " Praed Street Papers", " The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians", "Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey", " Praed Street Dossier", "The Chronicles of Solar Pons", "The Solar Pons Omnibus Edition", "The Unpublished Solar Pons" and "The Final Adventures of Solar Pons". But the final adventures weren't; after Derleth's death in 1971, Basil Copper picked up the flag and as of 2002 was continuing to turn out Pons aggregations. And, as with Doyle's Sherlock Holmes phenomenon, fan clubs have sprung up - "Pontine Societies" - in both England and the U.S. L17n
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3020 copies printed. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Derleth to Samuel A. Peeples on the half title page: "For Sam Peeples -- / has 45 though 56 / in the Pontine Canon / Canonically / August Derleth." A fine copy in fine dust jacket with mild tanning along rear flap fold and top edges of flaps. A fine association copy. (#162647)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.