Fine Books and Manuscripts
Sat, Apr 18, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 88
Ten Volumes by Derleth featuring Solar Pons, two signed.
Estimate: $400 - $600
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Derleth, August. Ten Volumes by Derleth featuring Solar Pons, two signed. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, v.d. Titles include The Reminiscences of Solar Pons (1961; inscribed and signed by Derleth); The Adventures of the Unique Dickensians (1968; printed wraps; signed by Derleth and the illustrator); The Return of Solar Pons (1958); The Memoirs of Solar Pons (1951); The Casebook of Solar Pons (1965); The Chronicles of Solar Pons (1973); A Praed Street Dossier (1968); In Re: Sherlock Holmes (1945); Three Problems for Solar Pons (1952); and Mr. Fairlie?s Final Journey (1968). Cloth with original jackets. 8vos. Near fine copies. Solar Pons was a fictional detective created by Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle?s Sherlock Holmes.
