Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Derleth, August. Wisconsin Earth: A Sac Prairie Sampler. Stanton & Lee Publishers, 1948.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: black binding. ex-library copy.
Seller: RP BOOKS, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Derleth, August W.. WISCONSIN EARTH. Stanton & Lee, 1948.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First ed. Good condition, over all wear, spine lettering badly rubbed. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
Seller: Rob & June Edwards, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
August Derleth. Sac Prairie People. Stanton & Lee: Publishers, 1948.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some discoloration due to age to inside of front and rear covers. Mild yellowing to edges of text. Name stamp on half-title page. Dust jacket price clipped, with a circular sticker ghost on front flap. Light shelf wear to jacket spine head, heel, and tips. Short, closed tear and crease at bottom edge of jacket on the front.
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First collected edition. A 900-page Sac Prairie sampler combining SHADOW OF NIGHT (1943), PLACE OF HAWKS (1935) and VILLAGE YEAR: A SAC PRAIRIE JOURNAL (1941) along with the original illustrations by George Barford and Frank Utpatel and endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. Wilson 543. A tight, clean, very good copy in good dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges and chipping at spine ends with internal tape mends. (#173976)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. Sac Prairie People. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City Wisc, 1948.
Price: US$39.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: jacket is price clipped
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Derleth, august. Sac Prairie People. stanton & lee, 1948, first edition ,, 1948.
Price: US$43.00 + shipping
Description: near fine, tiny slit top left, tiny edge rubbing jacket only, NO BOOK
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: HBDJ, 1st Limited Edition 2,000 copies, 1948, Dates match on Title & Copyright page, F-/NF-, Light Green Tweed decorated cloth Lettered in Black Cvr Nice Condition, Interior nice tight Clean light Wear Fox, DJ light Rub, wear & Back DJ light Staining & Smudges, Pages are White Ibsen Eggshell, Binding cloth is Pyroxylin Imregnated gray, 322 pgs
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. Sac Prairie People. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, WI, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Short stories & two novellas, part of Derleth's Sac Prairie Saga, of the lives & times of small-town Wisconsin residents. Small hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the jacket has the rather more common reclining author pose. Light wear to book, near fine; jacket lightly rubbed with minor edgewear, short tear to lower edge of front panel, sticker removal damage to upper front corner, apparently retouched with marker, $3.00 price intact; hint of tanning to pages, no names or marks. Text clean; [8], 322 pages + colophon. Size: Duodecimo
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
August Derleth. Sac Prairie People. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Volume of 20 regional short stories, part of Derleth's ongoing Sac Prairie saga. One of 2000 copies. NF copy a bit of toning on edges and endpapers. VG+ unclipped DJ with some chipping and edgewear now with an archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
Derleth, August William, 1909-1971. SAC PRAIRIE PEOPLE [SIGNED]. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$63.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, grey with white print; DJ in mylar, slight edgewear, else clean and bright; Boards in green cloth with black print, slight wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has small stain on front flyleaf, else clean and tight, slight age-toning to paper; Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; 322 pages. 1335610. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
DERLETH, August. Sac Prairie People. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing, one of 2000 copies. Octavo; grayish-green cloth, with titles stamped in black and green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [8],322,[2]pp. Small glue spot to rear board, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly edgeworn, with a handful of tiny nicks and tears and a neat, 1.5" split along upper edge of front flap fold; Very Good+. Volume of 20 regional short stories, part of Derleth's ongoing Sac Prairie saga.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. SAC PRAIRIE PEOPLE. Stanton & Lee: Publisher, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-322 [323: colophon] [324: blank], original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green and gold. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Derleth to Joseph F. Hartdegen on front free endpaper. A collection of short fiction set in rural Wisconsin. Collects eighteen short stories and two novelettes, including the midwestern Gothic "Where the Worm Dieth Not" (aka "The Sinister Shadow"). 2000 copies printed. Wilson 542. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket priced $3.00 on front flap with touch of rubbing at edges and some dust soiling to rear panel. Variant jacket with rear panel printed in brown and picture of Derleth reclined on his back credited to David Bachhuber. (#129466)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. WISCONSIN EARTH: A Sac Prairie Sampler. Stanton & Lee, 1948.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover in black cloth clean tight and unmarked with only very mild handling wear, personally inscribed and signed by Derleth on the page before the title page; dust jacket not price-clipped and with light edge rubbing, protected in older plastic cover
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. WISCONSIN EARTH: A Sac Prairie Sampler. Stanton & Lee, 1948.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover in black cloth clean tight and unmarked with only the very slightest of handling wear, personally inscribed and signed by Derleth on the page following the title page; dust jacket not price-clipped and with a minimum of edge rubbing, both nearly FINE condition
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. SAC PRAIRIE PEOPLE. Scribners / Scribner's, 1948.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: SAC PRAIRIE PEOPLE, Stanton & Lee, 1948, first edition, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper save for some slight chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. SIGNED by the author.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
DERLETH, August.. Sac Prairie People.. Sauk City Wisconsin Stanton & Lee, 1948.
Price: US$332.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, signed by the author on front free endpaper; 8vo; mild toning to text block extremities; publisher's cloth, a fine, sharp copy, with two variant dust-jackets, both priced $3 and with jacket artwork by Ronald Clyne, but with variant portraits of the author, one with superficial damage to lower panel, otherwise both very good. The fourth publication in the author's Sac Prairie Saga, chronicling life in a Wisconsin village from the mid-19th century onwards, a far cry from the call of Cthulu and the other inter-dimensional horrors that Derleth, co-founder of Arkham House, is also famously associated with. Signed and with two variant dust-jackets.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom