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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 (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.
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.
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$487.46 + 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