DERLETH, AUGUST (FOREWORD BY ALLEN HUBIN) — The Chronicles of Solar Pons

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 087054005X. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Cover Art; Limited to 4000 copies (actually 4176 copies). This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in clean, bright condition. There\'s some beginning ground-in dirt to the rear panel edges and two thin strips of toning to the top edges of the dust jacket flaps. There is some beginning foxing to the top edges of the text block. Included are the short stories: The Adventure of the Red Leech, The Adventure of the Orient Express, The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet, The Adventure of the shaplow Millions, The Adventure of the Benin Bronze, The Adventure of the Missing Tenants, The Adventure of the Aluminium Crutch, The Adventure of the Seven Sisters, The Adventure of the Bishop\'s Companion, and, The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians. "August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Cosmic Horror genre, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK) , Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .