first edition
1952 · Sauk City
by DERLETH, August
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 112, [2]pp. Previous owners inscription to front pastedown, touch of offsetting from binders glue to pastedowns, with faint thumb-smear to lower rear cover; Very Good+ or better, in the original dustjacket, unclilpped (priced $2.50), lightly rubbed at spine ends else Near Fine. An uncommon volume of Derleth's Solar Pons pastiches. Colophon states the printing to be 2000 copies, though Derleth and other sources claim a number between 990-1000 copies. (Inventory #: 81060)