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(Arkham House) Derleth, August. Not Long for this World. Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, 1948.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Bleiler 520; Derleth "Thirty Years of Arkham House" 36; Currey p. 148; Smith p. 191 Original black cloth, original dust jacket illustrated by Ronald Clyne, some browning and tears, front flap and pastedown torn where the two had been connected, bookplate and signature on free endpaper, some light browning of text, ex-library with stamp on top edge, else a good copy

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. Not Long for This World. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Sauk City: Arkham House:, 1948. First edition, Hardcover, Good/Very Good in Good dust jacket, 221 pp. A clean and tight copy with push to lower tips and with small vintage bookseller sticker affixed to front free endpaper. Jacket complete with toning to extremities and with about 1 one-inch chip at upper corner of front panel. First edition, Hardcover, Good/Very Good in Good dust jacket,

Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. Not Long for this World. Arkham House, 1948.

Price: US$110.20 + shipping

Description: NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD, Arkham House, 1948, first edition, near fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper save for a small chip to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. 1/2,067 copies.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. Not Long For This World. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1948.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: One of an edition limited to 2000 copies (per colophon). Small octavo. 221 pp. Black cloth with gilt titling on the spine. The illustrated dust jacket by Ronald Clyne is now in mylar. The jacket is price-clipped and shows very light edge wear. A collection of short stories.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. Not long for this world. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.

Price: US$139.22 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 221 pag

Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands

Derleth, August. Not Long for this World. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.

Price: US$149.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A square solid tight very carefully read copy if at all. Age toning to the text block edges, some light board edge wear. The 3.00 priced jacket has some light rubb8ing wear, light edge wear, light soil, light chipping at the top and heel on the spine. This copy IS NOT and xlibrary but for some reason there is the outline of removed tape to the front and rear end papers. 2000 copies.

Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. Not Long for This World [*SIGNED*]. Arkham House, Sauk City WI, 1948.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [modest shelwear, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), small ink check-marks next to all titles in the table of contents; supplied with a new FACSIMILE jacket, in Fine condition]. INSCRIBED generically and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Sincerely, / August Derleth." Derleth's third story collection, bringing together work originally published from 1928 to 1948, "stories of all kinds -- there are tales of psychic residue and ghostly vengeance, of witchcraft and ancient sorcery, of poetic justice and pure horror, of black magic and things that go bump in the night." Contents: "The Shadow on the Sky"; "Birkett's Twelfth Corpse"; "The White Moth"; "Nellie Foster"; "Wild Grapes"; "Feigman's Beard"; "The Drifting Snow"; "The Return of Sarah Purcell"; "Logoda's Heads"; "The Second Print"; "Mrs. Elting Does Her Part"; "A Little Knowledge"; "Mrs. Bentley's Daughter"; "Those Who Seek"; "Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream"; "The Tenant"; "The Lilac Bush"; "'Just a Song at Twilight'"; "A Matter of Sight"; "Chronicles of the City-States" (a group of five tales); "He Shall Come"; "Mrs. Lannisfree"; "After You, Mr. Henderson"; "Baynter's Imp"; "The Lost Day"; "A Collector of Stones"; "The God-Box"; "Saunder's Little Friend." ****NOTE again that the dust jacket on this book is a FACSIMILE, not an original.**** Signed by Author

Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. Not Long for This World. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. First Edition. 2067cc. Offsetting to pastedowns, spine lettering worn, faint stain to top edge of textblock, else a very good hardback in a dampstained jacket that has a horizontal spot of loss starting at the title onto the front flap. Inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front free endpaper.

Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.

DERLETH, August.. Not Long for this World.. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 221 pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth in dust jacket. First edition. With a warm inscription by Derleth to Annette Funicello, "On her birthday, October 22, 1961." Someone, probably Funicello, has attempted to cancel her name with blue marker. About fine in a nice jacket with a few closed tears.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD. Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, WI, 1948.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, Cloth. Story collection, most from Weird Tales and several other weird fiction pulps. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small chip to the upper front panel and a little age tanning to upper rear panel. (16243)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. Not Long For This World (Inscribed By Author). Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. Book Is Clean, No Wear Or Rubbing At All, Spine Gilt Brilliant; Inscribed To A Fan By August Derleth, No Other Names Or Marks. Dj With A Touch Of Rubbing/Wear At Corners, Minute Loss At Lower Front Tip, 1/16" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel, Slight Browning To White Lettering On Spine.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Derleth, August.. NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD. Arkham House., Sauk City:, 1948.

Price: US$210.00 + shipping

Description: HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. 2067 copies printed. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free enpage. Some offsetting to the endpages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

Seller: Kathmandu Books, Winter Park, FL, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. Not Long For This World (Signed& Inscribed First Edition). Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1948.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo., 221pp. Sharp First Edition, First Printing, one of only 2067 copies printed. Square, tight and clean throughout with a bump to the heel and a bit of wear to the crown. Some off-setting to end-papers. Clean interior. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($3.00), has some fairly mild edge-wear with some shallow wrinkles to the heel. Toning to rear panel, spine and flap edges. Still bright with no chipping or tears. Inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front end-paper to noted American SF/Horror collector Hardin Ramey, For Hardin Ramey, a book of twisted tales. Sincerely, August Derleth". A solid collectable copy at a great price. (Jaffery, Horrors & Unpleasantries, pg.44).

Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD. Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2067 copies printed. Signed inscription by Derleth on the front free endpaper: "For Allen Hess / A book of trifles / Sincerely, / August Derleth." A collection of thirty-two stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES, plus a foreword by Derleth who calls this book "a kind of catchall, made up of stories for the most part rejected for inclusion in SOMEONE IN THE DARK and SOMETHING NEAR, plus certain more recent stories which have been added to this group of early stories primarily to set off the contrast." Derleth's third collection of weird fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 520. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-96. Paste-downs tanned, narrow strip of staining along lower edge of front cover, a very good copy in fine dust jacket. (#162693)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD. Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, WI, 1948.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. Story collection, most from Weird Tales and several other weird fiction pulps. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 520. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-96. A fine copy in a just about fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear to the head of the spine panel and a touch of rubbing to the upper corner tips. (22696)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD. Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the front free endpaper by Derleth. 2067 copies printed. A collection of thirty-two stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES, plus a foreword by Derleth who calls this book "a kind of catchall, made up of stories for the most part rejected for inclusion in SOMEONE IN THE DARK and SOMETHING NEAR, plus certain more recent stories which have been added to this group of early stories primarily to set off the contrast." Derleth's third collection of weird fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 520. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-96. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of general tanning. A sharp copy. (#152867)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.