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The Memoirs of Solar Pons
by Derleth, August
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 19 x 13 cm. 12mo. 245pp. Black boards in price clipped dust jacket. dust jacket. Foreword by Ellery Queen. Dust jacket by Frank Utpatel. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. Some toning to jacket spine and edges. Top corners are very lightly bumped. Really nice copy. Second collection of Solar Pons stories, a pastiches of Sherlock Holmes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73324
- Title
- The Memoirs of Solar Pons
- Author
- Derleth, August
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Mycroft & Moran: Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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