Someone in the Dark
by August Derleth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good-
- Seller
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Floresville, Texas, United States
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About This Item
1941, Signed, Association Copy. Rare True first Edition, this edition rarely seen signed, 1115 copies, 7" tall with no headbands. Was sold out by 1944. Note that a second state was produced sometime between 1965 -1966, by Hunter Publishing Company, almost identical, but 7.25" tall with red/white headbands. Flat signed dedication to noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, William Stuart Baring-Gould (influential author of several works, including the 1962 fictional biography, "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A life of the world's first consulting detective", and "The Chronological Holmes" chronologically ordering all the events in the Sherlock Holmes stories). August Derleth had a great interest in Sherlock homes literature, thus "Solar Pons" the fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Synopsis
Someone in the Dark is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1941 and was the second book published by Arkham House. 1,115 copies were printed. An additional 300 copies were printed by Hunter Publishing Co. in Winston-Salem, NC in 1965.
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- Bookseller
- Out The Door (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 966
- Title
- Someone in the Dark
- Author
- August Derleth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, WI
- Date Published
- 1941
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Association Copy William Stuart Baring-Gould Sherlock Holmes Solar Pons
- Bookseller catalogs
- Association / Additional Material; H. P. Lovecraft & Arkham House related;
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...