Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Manly Wade Wellman. Who Fears the Devil. Arkham House, 1963.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG hardcover in VG dust jacket protected in mylar. Small 8vo. [vi] 213 pp. Eight short stories, at once fantastical and folk--a sui generis prose style mirrored in the cover illustration by Lee Brown Coye. Faint tape shadow on fep; and a label removed on rear fep; otherwise no ownership markings. Ships fast with tracking.
Seller: A Book Preserve, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Who Fears the Devil. Arkham House, 1963.
Price: US$224.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Both book and mylar protected jacket VG/VG+. Soiling to rear panel of jacket with previous owner's info inked to front pastedown being only noted faults. Very nice!
Seller: Abyssbooks, Crestone, CO, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. WHO FEARS THE DEVIL. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1963.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sauk City, WI:Arkham House. 1963. 1st edition, limited to 2000 copies. 213pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good conditiion. Black boards in very good condition, with gilt on spine still bright, and a bit of scuffing to rear board. Page edges lighlty soiled. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The Lee Brown Coye dust jacket is lightly rubbed, soiled and shelfworn with a vertical crease to middle of the spine strip. It is not price clipped.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Who Fears the Devil?. Arkham House, 1963.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth with gilt spine titling, very good with light rubbing to edges, slightly bumped spine ends. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket good in Mylar; lightly foxed to back and rear inner flap, and with heavy scuffing to back; small closed tears in bottom margin of back panel at hinge and center, with attendant crease, and tape reinforcement behind the two tears. DJ cover price $4.00 at front inner flap. Bookplate at FFEP. Light spotting to first few pages. Interior else clean, text bright and unmarked. With cover art by Lee Brown Coye.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Manly Wade Wellman. Who Fears the Devil. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1963.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: An as new book with slight tanning of the page block. The jacket a smooth 1/8'' x 3/4'' chip out of the upper right corner edge of the front of the jacket into the inside panel, a few slight rubs to the fornt of the jacketand top of the spineback corner, a 1 1/3'' closed tear at the top of the rear wrap around with associated diagonal creasing and rubbing around the perimeter of the rear panel. The red of the jacket looks unfaded. Looks much better than it may sound. All jackets in mylar wraps. DG
Seller: Copper Dragon Books, Cambria, CA, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. WHO FEARS THE DEVIL. Arkham House, 1963.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: WHO FEARS THE DEVIL, Arkham House, 1963, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper with 2 short closed tears and some minor rubbing. 1/2,000 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
WELLMAN, Manly Wade. Who Fears the Devil. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1963.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Top corners a touch bumped else very near fine in lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket with a couple of very short tears at the crown. A nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Manly Wade Wellman. Who Fears the Devil. Arkham House, 1963.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Collection of highly recommended Fantasy/Horror stories of Silver John the Balladeer. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Book is Near fine; jacket is rubbed.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Who Fears the Devil by Manly Wade Wellman (First Edition) A firm square copy with bumped bottom corners. Bright dust jacket with a very small closed tear and minor rubbing. Original $4.00 price intact. Clear protective cover.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Who Fears the Devil. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1963.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, has a shallow skew to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends, a hint of shelfwear to the cover edges and corners, and some faint rubbing to the covers. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has moderate bumps with some creasing to the spine ends and corners, mild sunning with very faint soiling to the spine, light rubbing with areas of smudging to the covers, a touch of edge wear, and mild creasing to the flap corners. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available upon request.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Who Fears The Devil. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1963.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: One of 2,000 [2,058] copies. Stories originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Joshi, 69. Currey. Mild foxing to top edge, else fine in near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with minor indents to back panel and slight pressing to top of front panel, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Who fears the devil. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1963.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 2000 copies, 8vo, pp. [10], 213, [1]; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; very minor shelf wear, bookplate on front pastedown; about fine. Jacket art by Lee Brown Coye. The first collection of the author's Silver John horror stories, which originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. WHO FEARS THE DEVIL. Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1963.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2058 copies printed. Signed by Wellman. Collection of short fiction featuring John, the wandering ballad-singer and student of folk magic in the Appalachian mountains. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-316. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1671. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1094. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-222. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A sharp copy. (#140027)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Wellman, Manly Wade. WHO FEARS THE DEVIL. Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, 1963.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Signed by Wellman on the front free end paper. A collection of short fiction featuring Silver John, the wandering ballad-singer of the Southern mountains. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-316. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #1671. Corner tips bruised, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a tiny nick at the lower front panel. (28572)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.