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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.
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: 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 and Lee, Sauk City, WI, U.S.A., 1948.
Price: US$124.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Inscrbed to Raymond Epstein of Chicago from the author. The corners of the jacket have a touch of wear. No chips or tears. No fading, rubbing or odor. Price intact on jacket flap.
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, 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