August Derleth Dwig (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some yellowing to front and rear flyleaves. Name stamp on half-title page. Dust jacket price clipped, lightly shelf rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. Dwig (illustrator). Boards shelf rubbed, with some brown spotting along far right edge of back cover. Front & rear hinges browned. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Dwig (illustrator). First Edition. Very slight rubbing to jacket.

Nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, sturdy binding, clean unmarked interior. Mild dustiness along top edge of page block. The unclipped jacket is bright with edge wear, chips and short tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clare Victor Dwiggins (Dwig) illus (illustrator). Unpaged, 33 leaves, profusely illustrated. Unworn dust jacket shows minor soil. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a First Edition hardcover book with 109 pages of poems and awesome illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright and title pages show only 1947 as a date making this a First Edition. The light gray dust jacket shows some light edgewear (No Chips). I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Dwig (illustrator). First Edition. Internally vg copy but the covers are badly mildew damaged. There is no active mildew and just a hint of musty odor but the sizing is eaten away over much of the cover. The dustjacket appears unaffected but is moderately soiled. All dust jackets are in Mylar acid-free protectors.; 16mo.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent Dust Jacket. First Edition. Both Book and Dust Jacket are in Excellent Condition ; clean and unmarked with the lightest possible wear. This old, thin First Edition hardcover book has awesome bird illustrations. The copyright and title pages show only 1959 as a date making this a First Edition. We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket. Signed, "To Marie, from Dwig." Blue cloth. Spine and edges show some moderate sunfading, some light edgewear, back cover waterstained all over. otherwise solid with clean pages and front cover is attractive.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 107 pages of poems and awesome illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1948 as the published date. The beige dust jacket is clean and in great shape (No Chips). This old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a First Edition hardcover book with 288 pages of comic illustrations and text. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright and title pages show only 1945 as a date making this s First Edition. The price has been clipped from the DJ flap and there is a small price sticker on the flap. The white dust jacket shows light edgewear (No Chips). This old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Dwig (illustrator). First Edition. Price-clipped. Price sticker residue to front flap of jacket.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clare Victor Dwiggins (Dwig) (illustrator). First Edition. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wis, 1948. First Edition Hardcover with DJ, 107 pp. 1,244 copies printed. Light gray hardcover boards illustrated in blue (front and back). Collection of over 50 poems for the young and the young at heart, all profusely illustrated by noted comic artist Clare Victor Dwiggins (Dwig). The paper DJ is price clipped, has mild toning and two closed/repaired 1/2" tears, else very good. The book itself is fine except for my name-stamp on FFEP.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Clare Victor Dwiggins (Dwig) (illustrator). Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, WI, 1947. First Edition Hardcover with DJ, 109 pages. 1,990 copies printed. Blue Hardcover with dark blue printing & illustrations (front & back). Collection of over 50 poems about boys and their adventures, accompanied by Dwig's clever and fascinating drawings on every page. This copy has a fine DJ that is price-clipped, minimal edgewear. Book has my name-stamp on ffep, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. DWIG [Clare V. Dwiggins] (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Minor rubbing to board edge and light toning to endpaper, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light shelf wear, a shallow stain to the top edge of front cover, and a hint of toning to spine, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Dwig (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, light browning to page edges and pastedowns, rear board somewhat soiled, front board bowed, light shelf wear along edges and corners, otherwise clean and tight, a Very Good + copy in like dustjacket that has a touch of soiling and shelf wear.

Hardcover. No printing statement. SIGNED by Derleth. 7.5x5.5", 107 pp, b&w drawings. Boards warping outward, else VG, clean & tight, in Good dj with dust soiling, small tears, chipping on back cover.; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. There is a piece of paper with Derleth biogrpahy taped to front pastedown. Bookplate. Inscribed by Dwig and signed by Derleth.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. DWIG [Clare V. Dwiggins] (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Book with light toning to endpapers, else in fine condition; dust jacket with light edge/shelf wear and a circular shadow (former sticker ghost) around price on inside flap, else fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clare Victor Dwiggins [Dwig] (illustrator). First Edition. Poems and nostalgic cartoons of long-vanished boy life. Hardcover, full pale blue cloth, dark blue titling & illustration. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor rubbing, original $2.00 price intact. 109 pages, spirited line drawings on most. Size: 5½" by 7½".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. DWIG [Clare V. Dwiggins] (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Light toning to endpaper, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light shelf wear and a hint of toning to spine, else fine.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dwig (illustrator). First Edition. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, WI, 1945. First Printing/First Edition green Hardcover with DJ, 288 pp. Detailed Introduction and 5 poems by Derleth. About 300 unique Drawings by Dwig detailing a year's adventures and happenings in the life of a young boy in early 1940s America. Lots of humor, nostalgia for the way things used to be. DJ has some edgewear, 1/4" soiling spot and 1/8" hole on back. DJ flap nclipped but has publisher's $4.95 sticker over original $2 price. Hardcover book is tight and fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. SIGNED. 285 pp. Duodecimo. [18 cm]. Sage green cloth over boards with dark green title stamped on spine. Minor scuffing to extremities and to front board. End papers foxed. Dust jacket is in Very Good condition with negligible losses at head of spine and corners, and a handful of spots at rear panel. Previous bookseller's pencilled notes on the interior of jacket and small library book plate on front paste down. Jacket is ever so slightly toned. Signed in blue ink to two fans by Dwig on the front free end paper. "The story of 'Bill's Diary'.is the story of what every small boy is and does, what he would like to be and do.Dwig's Bill is Dwis himself; he is you and I; that is the plain, unvarnished fact, and that is the reason he is certain to find sympathy and understanding and affection among the readers of this book; Bill is every boy, today and yesterday, an essential part of that American scene and that American tradition so dear to us." --from August Derleth's foreword.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. DWIG (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Book is in fine condition; dust jacket with light shelf wear, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dwig Aka Clare Victor Dwiggins (illustrator). First Edition. Apparently another imprint of Arkham House Publisher, August Derleth. Collection of folksy newspaper comic art by Dwig. Upper corners bumped, else about fine in vg dj with a nickel size chip out of top of rear panel and some edgewear and tears up to 1/2" with some dust soiling to white jacket. NOT price-clipped. About the size of a vintage Arkham House book. Book.

Hardcover. Dwig (illustrator).

First Edition. With original SIGNED drawing in green ink by Dwig on ffep. 12mo; xx, 288pp. A Near Fine copy (lower corner bumped) in a Very Good dust illustrated jacket (light extremity wear, one tape-repaired closed tear) in green cloth lettered at spine. Dwiggins was an American cartoonist who signed his work Dwig. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and newspaper syndicates from 1897 until 1945, including his best-known strip, the long-running School Days. (wiki) The book contains almost 300 panels illustrating the world of a young boy, reminiscent of Twain's Tom and Huck.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Small name stamp on the bottom page edge, and a small, faint date stamp on the title page, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. A nice collection of children's cartoons.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good binding. Dwig (illustrator). 8vo; bound in printed paper over boards; a lovely copy of what must be a very fragile book; contents are clean and binding is sound; bit of expected shelfwear to the extremities, but quite a nice copy, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good binding. Likely the First (and probably only) Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small name stamp on bottom page edge else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with some chipping and a tear near the crown. Very nicely Inscribed by the author. A nice collection of boy's poems.