Stolen Copy of Almost the Last Solar Pons

The Chronicles of Solar Pons [$6.00 Jacket]

Derleth, August

Publication: Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1973. First Edition.

Notes: A Sherlock Holmes pastiche recovered from FBI evidence as befits a collection of ten crime stories.

4176 copies. Jacket by Frank Utpatel. The last Solar Pons title published by Arkham House (two later collections were licensed to a Canadian publisher). Introduction by Allen J. Hubin. x, 237, [3], [colophon], [1] pages.

Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, M&M 15; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 130.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first and only Arkham House printing; first issue jacket with a printed $6.00 price). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Minor wear at 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, like this one which has its evidence tag laid in.

Item No: #49149

Price: $85