August Derleth - Chronicles of Solar Pons - 1st/1st 1973 in DW, Sherlock Holmes
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August Derleth - Chronicles of Solar Pons - 1st/1st 1973 in DW, Sherlock Holmes:
$121.03
Title:TheChronicles of Solar Pons
Author: August Derleth
Publisher:Mycroft and Moran, Wisconsin
Edition:First edition, first printing
Date Printed: 1973
Description: A nice first printing of the first edition in the Solar Pons series. Original hardback in the original dustwrapper designed by Frank Utpatel.
The dustwrapper is not price clipped and still shows the original $6.00 price to the inside front flap. The dustwrapper is in excellent condition with only minimal signs of wear (see pictures). The book itself is also in excellent condition with edges remaining sharp and titles very bright (see pictures). Internally clean and bright. Free of inscriptions. Binding sound and square. A very nice item.
Derleth wrote to Conan Doyle after hearing he was not going to write any more Sherlock Holmes stories and offered to write them for him. Doyle politely turned him down. Derleth then invented Solar Pons, a pastiche of Sherlock Holmes, who also has great powers of deduction, lived at 7B Praed Street with a companion, Dr. Lyndon take great care in the packaging of all our books to ensure that they arrive as described. We accept PayPal worldwide.
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