Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: almost near fine, slight spine darkening jacket only, NO BOOK
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, WI, 1963. Black Hardcover First Edition, First Printing, viii + 248 pp. Limited to 2546 copies. Collects 17 tales of the supernatural and macabre written under Derleth's Stephen Grendon pseudonym, most first printed in Weird Tales. Some very fine stories herein. I'm calling the DJ "fair" due to water staining in a 1.5" square area of upper right front of DJ. Otherwise DJ would be fine but for a bit of toning along top edge and spine of DJ. Book itself is near fine but has my name stamped faintly on top edge and small name/date on FFEP.
Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [minimal wear to book, some black ink-staining along bottom edges of front pastedown and front endpaper, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, small ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents; the jacket is very lightly browned at the spine, with light wear and some minor wrinkling along the top edge, also some internal ink-staining at the upper extremities (but with no bleed-through)]. Per the author's introduction: "These stories were written all in one month twenty years ago specifically to swell the log of Weird Tales," but because the magazine already had too many Derleth stories on file awaiting publication, it was decided to tag these with the "Stephen Grendon" pseudonym -- which fooled nobody, since it was the name of the narrator of Derleth's 1941 novel "Evening in Spring." The stories: "Mr. George"; "Parrington's Pool"; "A Gentleman from Prague"; "The Man on B-17"; "Blessed Are the Meek"; "Mara"; "The Blue Spectacles"; "Alannah"; "Dead Man's Shoes"; "The Tsantsa in the Parlor"; "Balu"; "The Extra Passenger"; "The Wind in the Lilacs"; "Miss Esperson"; "The Night Train to Lost Valley"; "Bishop's Gambit"; "Mrs. Manifold."
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Grendon, Stephen (pseud. of August Derleth). Mr. George and Other Odd Persons. Arkham House, 1963.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 1st printing of this collection. 7.5x5.5", viii+239 pp. VG, clean & tight, in VG dj with yellowed spine.
Seller: Aardvark Book Depot, Shorewood, WI, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. MR. GEORGE and Other Odd Persons. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1963.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [1st printing] 1963. Dj art by Robert E. Hubbell. Mild stain at lower rear edge; tanning; rubbing; minor soiling; edge and corner wear.
Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 2546 copies printed. Seventeen fantasy stories, including some of Derleth's best, most first printed in WEIRD TALES. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 524. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-95. Damp stain to front cover, a good copy in a very good dust jacket with new publisher's price sticker affixed over printed price on flap, some light small stains to front panel, tanning to spine panel with a several small abrasions. (25656)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Derleth, August stephen grendon. MR. GEORGE AND OTHER ODD PERSONS .. arkham house, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$53.00 + shipping
Description: fine in a fine dust jacket looks new
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Limited Print run of 2500 copies. viii, 239 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 524. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-95 Black cloth. Fine in fine pictorial unclipped dust jacket by Robert E. Hubbell w/ $4.00 Price on d/j First edition. Limited Print run of 2500 copies.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Mr. George and Other Odd Persons by Stephen Grendon August Derleth Firm bright square copy. Bright dust jacket with minor edge wear. Light fading. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover. Limited to 2500 copies. Collects 17 of August Derleth's (under the pseudonym Stephen Grendon) short stories of fantasy and horror.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: One of 2,500 [2,546] copies printed. First volume published under August Derleth's pseudonym. Joshi, 70. Faint foxing to upper and fore edge, else near fine in near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket with minor toning to spine, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Grendon, Stephen.. MR. GEORGE AND OTHER ODD PERSONS. Arkham House., Sauk City:, 1963.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Grendon was pseudonym for August Derleth. 2546 copies printed. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Kathmandu Books, Winter Park, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: F/F dj, now in archival Brodart. Collect seventeen tales of the macabre.
Seller: Dark Hollow Books®, Member NHABA, IOBA, Wolfeboro Falls, NH, U.S.A.
Derleth, August [as Stephen Grendon]. Mr. George and Other Odd Persons. Arkham House, 1963.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gift inscription signed to a previous owner by author/publisher August Derleth, who also wrote the introduction. From an edition of 2,500 copies. 239 pages. Black cloth with gilt spine titles, very good with bumped spine head, lightly bumped spine foot. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket lightly scuffed, toned to spine, with light edgewear; very good in Mylar. Cover price $4.00. Prior owner's name (the same as that addressed by the gift inscription) penned at the top of FFEP. Interior else clean, text bright and unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of the presumed first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement, although the dates on the title and copyright pages correspond), lacking a dust-jacket. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: " For Bob Cromie - the best tales of Stephen Grendon / (August Derleth)." Cromie was the well-known book reviewer in Chicago. Previous owner's name modestly in ink at front free endpaper, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding still rather bright and fresh in appearance, with a bit of wear at the extremities of the black cloth boards and some dulling to the gilt lettering on the spine. A handsome copy.
Seller: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 431 Pages. Black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Front endpaper has 11 character black-inked word (owner's name?) followed by "Kent 1976". Beyond this defect is a tight book with the feel of never opened, and tight white interior text pages. Dust jacket is price clipped and has some light edge chipping and very light foxing that does not extend to book. We have separated the DJ from the book for storage to minimize the spread of the foxing. This from the last un-numbered page - Three thousand copies of this book have been printed by The Collegiate Press, George Banta Company, Inc., Menasha, Wisconsin, from Linotype Garamond on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex. The best macabre tales of the outstanding twentieth century American writer in the genre are to be found in this book. Here are such classic stories as the title story, The Colour out of Space, The Rats in the Walls, The Music of Erich Zann, The Shadow out of Time, and The Outsider. Here, too, are those memorable novellas in the Cthulhu Mythos-The Whisperer in Darkness, The Thing on the Doorstep, and The Shadow Over lnnsmouth, as well as such chilling tales of pure grue as In The Vault and Pickman's Model. No writer of our own century in America has so captivated the imagination of readers devoted to the macabre as the late H. P. Lovecraft. His best tales have been out of print in America for a decade-some of them for far longer; this collection is a cornerstone not only for any Lovecraft shelf, but also for any library of fantasy of our time. The stories were selected and are introduced by August Derleth, who, with Donald Wandrei; collected and published the Lovecraft works. The tales are prefaced by an essay on Lovecraft and his creative work, seen in retrospect a quarter of a century after Lovecraft's death. The jacket drawing represents Wilbur Whateley of The Dunwich Horror, as conceived by the distinguished artist, Lee Brown Coye, whose macabre conceptions decorated such anthologies as Sleep No More, Who Knocks, and The Night Side. Mr. Coye lives and works in upstate New York.
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.