A Praed Street Dossier

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran / Arkham House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; Limited to 3000 copies (actually 2904 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. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. Includes the short works: The Beginnings of Solar Pons, The Sources of the Tales, Concerning Dr. Parker's Background, The Favorite Pastiches, From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker, The Adventure of the Bookseller's Clerk, Solar Pons, Off-Trail, The Adventure of the Snitch in Time, and, The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus. "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) .