THE MEMOIRS OF SOLAR PONS by Derleth, August - 1951

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, Publishers, 1951. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Sauk City, WI:Mycroft and Moran, Publishers. 1951. 1st edition, limited to 2000 copies.  245pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good clean condition, with no previous owners marks or signatures, but with light age-toning to endpapers and light soiling to top page edges. The dust jacket is not price clipped, but lightly soiled and worn along edges and at edgepoints, with an old vertical crease down the spine, as if it was removed and folded while reading the book. A very good copy.  *"This long awaited second collection of pastiches of the immortal Sherlock Holmes offers eleven new adventures of Solar Pons, who has been called by Vincent Sarrett 'a clever impersonator, with a twinkle in his eye, which tells us that he knows he is not Sherlock Holmes, and knows that we know it, but that he hopes we will like him anyway for what he symbolizes' ."...dj