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Derleth, August. The Arkham Sampler Summer, 1948. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: NW-Good trade size paperback magazine. Toning o/w clean. plain tan spine Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. The Arkham Sampler Summer, 1948. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume I number III. Very good in wraps with mild wear.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. Books from Arkham House 1947-48. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1948.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stapled pamphlet discussing Arkham's plans & problems (".Arkham House receives angry letters from readers who find early, out-of-print Arkham books quoted at fantastic prices. Arkham House has nothing to do with such quotations.") with list of out-of-print, in print & forthcoming titles, ordering information, 2 pages b/w photos, Dwig drawing and poem. Includes Mycroft & Moran + Stanton & Lee titles. These little catalogs, important pieces of Arkham history, were working documents and usually show signs of use - this is an exceptionally clean example. Mays 19/Herron 23. Stapled pamphlet, pale blue covers, dark blue titling; printed inside & out. Edges lightly tanned and slightly bent; faint dents on covers; evidence of some pencil (erased) to last few pages, couple of small stains. 39 pages + 4 b/w plates. Size: 4" by 5¾"
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
(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.
WANDREI, Donald.. The web of Easter Island.. Arkham House,, Sauk City, WI:, 1948.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [8], 191, [3] pp. Black publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. cover art by Audrey Johnson (slight age toning to fore-edges), still NF/NF copy, from library of Don Hampf, w/ bookplate on ffep. First Arkham house edition, 1 of 3068 copies printed, of the author's first full length novel, set against the backdrop of the Cthulhu Mythos, and unwitting archaeologist. Wandrei (1908-1987) is perhaps best remembered as the co-founder of Arkham House with August Derleth in 1939.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark green wraps (softcover), stapled binding. 100 pages. $1.00. 1200 copies printed. Cover design by Ronald Clyne. Containing "Messrs. Turkes and Talbot" by H. Russell Wakefield, "History and Chronology of the Necronomicon" by H.P. Lovecraft ["Together With Some Pertinent Paragraphs" by August Derleth], "Three Poems" by Clark Ashton Smith, "Introduction: Strange Ports of Call" by August Derleth, "A Little Anthology" edited by Malcolm Ferguson, "Mara" by Stephen Grendon, "A Hornbook for Witches" a poem by Leah Bodine Drake, "Checklist: The Carvings of Clark Ashton Smith," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Part 1" by H.P. Lovecraft, and several book reviews by August Derleth, Robert Bloch and John Haley. Typical light page toning, small chip front wrapper edge, else a very clean and tight copy. Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, 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$137.76 + 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 (Inscribed By Author). Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$180.00 + 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: 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. 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.
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.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Black cloth "Novelex" binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5" x 7 ?"). 228pp. *** Publisher Arkham House was established in 1939 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei specifically to publish stories by H.P. Lovecraft and others whose works had mostly been printed in the "Weird Tales" magazine and remained unavailable in book form. *** Clark Ashton Smith was a poet and a sculptor, before gaining popularity as a short-story writer for "Weird Tales". This collection contains stories concerning "Genius Loci" - a classical term meaning "guardian spirits of places". This sums up the atmosphere of these stories nicely, with their aura of brooding presences somewhat akin to Algernon Blackwood's famous story, "The Willows". *** The dust jacket design is by American artist Frank Wakefield. *** Condition: A Near Fine, fresh copy with no ownership marks or underlining, in a Near Fine dust jacket, now protected in mylar. Binding tight. Bookplate of renowned bibliophile Richard Manney to front pastedown. Richard Manney was famous for buying the best copies he could, from Shakespeare folios to Arkham House collectibles. A portion of his library was sold at Sotheby's in 1991. *** Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1486; L.W. Currey: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, page 453. Nielsen 36.
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$269.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First complete year of this important magazine from Arkham House. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt and many others, the magazine published essays, criticism, memoirs and book reviews. A must have for Arkham House collectors. Good condition; wear to spines of several volumes, some inevitable rust stains from binding staples to the covers of several volumes, slight tears to covers, pages browning. All and all they are good for there age. Now being stored in acid free plastic bags.
Seller: Sherwood Frazier Books, Laconia, NH, 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.. 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
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.
Price: US$649.95 + shipping
Description: -----------hardcover, a Very Good to Very Good+ example, gently bumped lower corners, age toning to the endpapers, in a Good dustjacket with the usual rubbing, light wear, rear white panel is largely white with black lettering and is somewhat soiled, this copy has been signed by SEABURY QUINN without inscription, rarely encountered signed, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5w x 7.75h Inches
Seller: Leonard Shoup, BURLINGTON, ON, Canada
Price: US$1099.00 + shipping
Description: THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, Arkham House, 1948 - 1949, first edition, 8 volumes complete, a fine set in original wraps save for the Winter 1948 issue which has the upper rear fore edge corner tip attached with some non-stick tape. An easy fix for restoration. Contributions by H. R. Wakefield, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Leah Bodine Drake, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Samuel Loveman, Lord Dunsany, A. E. Van Vogt, Ray Bradbury, Ted Sturgeon, Jules Verne, Everett Bleiler, P. Schuyler Miller, Donald Wandrei, Sam Moskowitz, Lewis Padgett, CarlJacobi, David Keller, Vincent Starrett, E. Hoffman Price, et.al. All 1/1,200 copies save the All Science Fiction issue which was 1/2,000 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.