From FBI Evidence
The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. First Edition.
Notes: A series of tales based on Edgar Allan Poe's detective C. Auguste Dupin first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the 1960s.
1917 copies. xii, 140 pages. Jacket art by Ronald Clyne. Introduction by Ellery Queen.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, M&M 10; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 105.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine jacket with minute color breaks at the lower edge. 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. This copy was recovered by the FBI from a storage unit in Oregon City and it includes the original evidence tag.
Item No: #366153
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