Author: DERLETH, AUGUST
Title: The Return of Solar Pons
Description: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1958. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Cover Art; Limited to 2000 copies (actually 2079 copies). This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with a few tiny spots of rubbing to the edges / spine ends, and some beginning toning and spots of foxing to the rear panel and top edges of the flaps. Included is an introduction by Edgar W. Smith This is another in the pastiche series of Solar Pons books which mimic the Sherlock Holmes stories, even down to the number of stories per volume. This book includes the short works: Adv. Of the Lost Dutchman, The Adv. Of the Devil's Footprints, The Adv. Of the Dorrington Inheritance, The Adv. Of the - Triple Kent -, The Adv. Of the Rydberg Numbers, The Adv. Of the Grice-Paterson Curse, The Adv. Of the Stone of Scone, The Adv. Of the Remarkable Woman, The Adv. Of the Penny Magenta, The Adv. Of the Trained Cormorant, The Adv. Of the Camberwell Beauty, The Adv. Of the Little Hangman, and, The Adv. Of the Swedenborg Signatures. "In the mid-1930s, Derleth organized a Ranger's Club for young people, served as clerk and president of the local school board, served as a parole officer, organized a local men's club and a parent-teacher association. He also lectured in American regional literature at the University of Wisconsin and was a contributing editor of Outdoors Magazine. With longtime friend Donald Wandrei, Derleth in 1939 founded Arkham House. Its initial objective was to publish the works of H. P. Lovecraft, with whom Derleth had corresponded since his teenage years. At the same time, he began teaching a course in American Regional Literature at the University of Wisconsin. In 1941, he became literary editor of The Capital Times newspaper in Madison, a post he held until his resignation in 1960. His hobbies included fencing, swimming, chess, philately and comic-strips (Derleth reportedly deployed the funding from his Guggenheim Fellowship to bind his comic book collection, most recently valued in the millions of dollars, rather than to travel abroad as the award intended. ). Derleth's true avocation, however, was hiking the terrain of his native Wisconsin lands, and observing and recording nature with an expert eye.". Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Mystery August Derleth Arkham House Limited Editions Small Press Solar Pons Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes Pastiche
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Title: The Return of Solar Pons
Description: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1958. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Cover Art; Limited to 2000 copies (actually 2079 copies). This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with a few tiny spots of rubbing to the edges / spine ends, and some beginning toning and spots of foxing to the rear panel and top edges of the flaps. Included is an introduction by Edgar W. Smith This is another in the pastiche series of Solar Pons books which mimic the Sherlock Holmes stories, even down to the number of stories per volume. This book includes the short works: Adv. Of the Lost Dutchman, The Adv. Of the Devil's Footprints, The Adv. Of the Dorrington Inheritance, The Adv. Of the - Triple Kent -, The Adv. Of the Rydberg Numbers, The Adv. Of the Grice-Paterson Curse, The Adv. Of the Stone of Scone, The Adv. Of the Remarkable Woman, The Adv. Of the Penny Magenta, The Adv. Of the Trained Cormorant, The Adv. Of the Camberwell Beauty, The Adv. Of the Little Hangman, and, The Adv. Of the Swedenborg Signatures. "In the mid-1930s, Derleth organized a Ranger's Club for young people, served as clerk and president of the local school board, served as a parole officer, organized a local men's club and a parent-teacher association. He also lectured in American regional literature at the University of Wisconsin and was a contributing editor of Outdoors Magazine. With longtime friend Donald Wandrei, Derleth in 1939 founded Arkham House. Its initial objective was to publish the works of H. P. Lovecraft, with whom Derleth had corresponded since his teenage years. At the same time, he began teaching a course in American Regional Literature at the University of Wisconsin. In 1941, he became literary editor of The Capital Times newspaper in Madison, a post he held until his resignation in 1960. His hobbies included fencing, swimming, chess, philately and comic-strips (Derleth reportedly deployed the funding from his Guggenheim Fellowship to bind his comic book collection, most recently valued in the millions of dollars, rather than to travel abroad as the award intended. ). Derleth's true avocation, however, was hiking the terrain of his native Wisconsin lands, and observing and recording nature with an expert eye.". Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Mystery August Derleth Arkham House Limited Editions Small Press Solar Pons Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes Pastiche
Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 35140
- Book number: 35140
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