Someone in the Dark

1941, Signed, Association Copy. Rare True first Edition, this edition rarely seen signed, 1115 copies, 7" tall with no headbands. Was sold out by 1944. Note that a second state was produced sometime between 1965 -1966, by Hunter Publishing Company, almost identical, but 7.25" tall with red/white headbands. Flat signed dedication to noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, William Stuart Baring-Gould (influential author of several works, including the 1962 fictional biography, "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A life of the world's first consulting detective", and "The Chronological Holmes" chronologically ordering all the events in the Sherlock Holmes stories). August Derleth had a great interest in Sherlock homes literature, thus "Solar Pons" the fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.