First Solar Pons
"In Re: Sherlock Holmes": The Adventures of Solar Pons
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. First Edition.
Notes: The first Mycroft & Moran book, the Arkham House imprint used for detective and mystery titles. Mycroft Holmes was Sherlock's brother in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, and Col. Sebastian Moran was the second-most dangerous criminal in London, after Moriarty. This is the first collection of Derleth's Sherlock Holmes pastiches.
3,604 copies. xvi, 239, [1] pages. Jacket by Ronald Clyne. Foreword by Vincent Starrett.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, M&M 1; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 12.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first and only Arkham House printing). A fine, tight copy in a very good dust jacket with short tears at the top of the spine and wear to the edges. With the Lovecraft-inspired letterpress bookplate of the James Strand estate on the front pastedown.
This copy came from the important Arkham House collection assembled by James Strand of Portland, Oregon. After his death, in August 2023, his house was looted and most of his books were stolen. Some were subsequently recovered by the FBI. This book was among those not taken by thieves.
Item No: #366122
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