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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, 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, 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 [Arkham House], Sauk City, WI, 1965.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Inscribed and signed in blind by Derleth on the half-title page. The fifth Solar Pons book collecting 12 adventures. 3020 copies printed. Jaffrey: The Arkham House Companion, 87. Joshi: Sixy Years of Arkham House, M-7. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, 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.