Ten-Volume Solar Pons Collection [In Re: Sherlock Holmes, Memoirs of Solar Pons, Three Problems for Solar Pons, The Return of Solar Pons, The Reminiscences of Solar Pons, The Casebook of Solar Pons, A Praed Street Dossier, Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey, The Chronicles of Solar Pons, and The Final Adventures of Solar Pons]

Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1945-1998. First Editions. First Printings. Ten octavo volumes (19-22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in red, yellow, green, silver, and gilt on spines; dustjackets; xvi,238,[2]; xxii,245,[5]pp; [x],112,[2]; xiv,261,[1]; xii,199,[1]; xviii,281,[1]; [xii],108,[4]; [vi],131,[3]; x,237,[5]; [6],xvi,208,[2]pp. Books are uniformly Near Fine or better, with contents clean, some occasional nudging to spine ends, or faint finger-soil to covers. All dustjackets are unclipped, except for In Re: Sherlock Holmes; Three Problems shows some modest wear to joints and spine-ends, Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey with gentle sunning to spine and flap folds (Very Good+), with the remaining volumes showing only some light wear to extremities and some minor dustiness; Near Fine. An attractive set of the primary volumes in Derleth's Solar Pons series. "Solar Pons was born one autumn day in 1928. A young August Derleth had written to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to find out whether he intended writing any more Sherlock Holmes adventures. Upon receiving Doyle's terse negative reply, scrawled upon his own letter, Derleth proceeded to fill the void himself. He created his own fictional detective, complete with a brilliant deductive mind, a faithful medical man for a friend and chronicler, a London flat, a brother in high government circles, and enough other familiar minutiae to make the most dedicated Holmesian feel at home" (Wilson, August Derleth: A Bibliography, p.85). WILSON 315-320, 322-324.