Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Derleth, August (SIGNED). In Re: Sherlock Holmes. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1945.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: typed letter signed by Derleth laid inside
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited to 3000 copies, hardcover in black cloth with spine lettered in red, clean tight and unmarked, light age toning to edges of pages; personally inscribed by Derleth to his friend and fellow native of Sauk City "Tess Mueller" on ffep, with bookplate of her husband Otto on the front pastedown; dust jacket not price-clipped and protected in archival plastic, has light age browning around edges, light rubs at front joint, and small chip at top of spine
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Derleth, August (SIGNED). In Re: Sherlock Holmes. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1945.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Description: jacket's spine is slightly darker, Inscribed: Greetings from a later day Backer Street, Cononically,August Derleth
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. In Re: Sherlock Holmes. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1945.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 Baker Street. Canonically, [signature]" on the first blank. Full black cloth, red titling. Light general wear, jacket edgeworn with light chipping, price clipped. Jacket art by Ronald Clyne. Text clean; xv, blank, 238 pages + colophon Size: 5¼" by 7½"
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Derleth, August ( Sherlockiana ). IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES. Mycroft & Moran, 1945.
Price: US$278.40 + shipping
Description: "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.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: 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. Front upper corner tip bruised, the first few leaves have a faint corner crease (the paper used was very thin). An appealing near fine copy in near fine dustjacket with light fading to the red portion of the spine panel and minimal wear. Dustjacket art by Ronald Clyne. Jaffery 12. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. In Re: Sherlock Holmes UNIQUE ASSOCIATION. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, WI, 1945.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 Derleth". Coleman's Prairie Press published 'Atmosphere of Houses' and several volumes of Derleth's poetry over several decades.
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.