August W. Derleth. Place of Hawks. Loring & Mussey Publishers, New York, 1935.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Inscibed and dated in year of publication by author on front flyleaf. Some sunning to the cloth at spine head, heel and edges. Front and rear matter yellowed. In Poor dust jacket that is falling apart. Front flap has separated, upper edge of jacket chipped away, large chip at spine head, another at heel. Creases and chips out of front and rear joints. Jacket in mylar.

Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

Derleth, August W.. Place of Hawks. Loring & Mussey, New york [1935], 1935.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition bound in very dark purple cloth with spine lettered in silver gilt, clean tight and unmarked with only very slight sun fading to edges of covers, very light age tanning to endpapers, text clean and bright almost Fine internally; the dust jacket is complete but badly chipped and rubbed at all folds and edges, protected in archival plastic cover; warmly inscribed by Derleth on front free endpaper, as if to a personal friend

Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

Derleth, August. PLACE OF HAWKS. Loring & Mussey Publishers [1935], New York, 1935.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7 [8-12] 13-250 [251-254: blank], five wood engravings by George Barford, original black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in silver, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front free end paper to William C. Weber, an editor at Scribner's. Weber was also a member of The Baker Street Irregulars and a book reviewer, sometimes using the byline "Judge Lynch." Derleth's third book and first collection of short fiction. Collects four linked novelettes: "Five Alone," "Faraway House," "Nine Strands in a Web" and "Place of Hawks." Dark, somber stories of madness, death and decay; Midwestern Gothic. "The emphasis is on the dark, brooding, and tragic in this study of twisted lives." - Wilson. Part of Derleth's Sac Prairie Saga. Wilson 541. Some fade to cloth edges, a very good or better copy in a very good dust jacket with wear to the spine ends with some shallow losses, mild wear to the corner tips and rubs along the front spine fold. (28543)

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