Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
August Derleth & Mark Schorer. COLONEL MARKESAN AND LESS PLEASANT PEOPLE. Arkham House, 1966.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition of 2405 copies printed. Touch of age darkening to edge of text block else FINE in a FINE dust wrapper.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 19.5 x 13.5 cm. 12mo. 285pp. Limited to 2500 copies. Black boards in dust jacket. Scuffing to bottom of back cover boards. Dust jacket cover art by Frank Utpatel .Light rubbing at dj corners. Jacket spine is sun toned. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Gilt lettering on black covers in a green pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 213pp. Only 2500 copies printed.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Bleiler 530; Currey p. 146; Derleth "Thirty Years of Arkham House" 87; Smith p. 191 Original black cloth, some mildewing, original printed dust jacket with illustration by Frank Utpatel, some light browning, soiling and rubbing, else a very good copy
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, 1966. Limited to 1/2500 copies printed. Tightly bound in black cloth. Extremely small bumps to corners, slight smudging to the covers and minimal fading to title, otherwise Near Fine. Contents remain crisp and unmarked. The unclipped ($5.00) dust jacket shows extremely slight edge wear and age-toning to margins of flaps, otherwise Fine, unfaded and clean.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. COLONEL MARKESAN AND LESS PLEASANT PEOPLE. Arkham House, US, 1966.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition limited to two thousand five hundred copies. Black cloth over boards with gilt-stamped particulars to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright. Text block is clean. Binding is tight and square. Pictorial dust jacket, illustrated by Frank Utpatel, is clean, bright and unmarked. Closed tear to top edge. Light shelfwear. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1966. First edition black cloth Hardcover with DJ, 285 pp. 2405 copies printed. 17 macabre stories jointly written by the authors in the summer of 1931. Usual toning to top edge of DJ, very light toning to DJ spine. A bit of light foxing on text-block edges, mainly top edge; tiny creases at extreme lower edge of first few pages where pages were folded back at bit. Otherwise DJ and book are fine and look new. Unread copy.
Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 2405 copies. 285 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bleiler 530; Currey p. 146; Derleth "Thirty Years of Arkham House" 87; Sixty Years at Arkham House, #87; Smith p. 191Joshi, Original black cloth, some mildewing, original printed dust jacket with illustration by Frank Utpatel, Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
August Derleth,Mark Schorer. Colonel Markesan, and Less Pleasant People. Arkham House Pub, 1966.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Boards have shelf wear. Dust jacket is protected by mylar. Name of previous owner inside cover.
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 2405 copies printed. Collects seventeen stories first published in Weird Tales, Strange Tales, and Strange Stories between 1930 and 1947, mostly during the period 1930 to 1939. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 530. Upper corners and base of spine slightly bumped, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with two light blue horizontal lines on the verso of the jacket (offset from a previous jacket protector) with slight bleed through to white background areas of jacket and base of spine panel slightly wrinkled from a bump. (16560)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 2405 copies printed. Collects seventeen stories first published in Weird Tales, Strange Tales, and Strange Stories between 1930 and 1947, mostly during the period 1930 to 1939. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 530. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small 7 mm closed tear to the upper front panel and light crease. (24868)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People by August Derleth (1st Edition) Sharp tight, firm copy. Pencil marks from previous owner. Bright jacket. Minor edgewear. Clear protective cover. Not price-clipped. First Edition. 2405 copies in this printing. Original $5.00 price point. 285 pp. Series of stories by August Deleth and Mark Shorer all written in the summer of 1931. Black cloth. Gilt to spine.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Derleth, August, Schorer, Mark. Colonel Markesan, and Less Pleasant People. Arkham House Pub, 1966.
Price: US$245.40 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 285 pp. Cloth in dustwrapper, very good. (44606). Limited to 2500 copies. Signed inscription by Derleth on front free endpaper.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.