Collected August Derleth (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First, Limited Edition. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1969. First edition, 1969, limited to 4000 copies. Cthulhu-themed stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, August Derleth, Brian Lumley and Others. Bleck cloth with gilt spine lettering, with dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with good hinges, firm text block, light foxing to the outer edge of the text block as well as some very, very light foxing to the half-title and title pages, pages clean, name written inside the front cover beneath the dustjacket flap, no other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is priceclipped and is good to very good with some age darkening mainly to the rear cover, edgewear, small chip to the spine head, very little paper loss. First, Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. 1st printing. 7.5x5", ix+306 pp, photo frontis, 2 double-sided b&w plates from photographs. Light fraying at top of spine, one plate has adhered to facing page resulting in loss of a small amount of paper, else VG, clean, solid, in Good dj with light edge wear, some yellowing and discoloration.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. NA (illustrator). 1st Edition. First complete year of this important magazine from Arkham House. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt and many others, the magazine published essays, criticism, memoirs and book reviews. A must have for Arkham House collectors. Good condition; wear to spines of several volumes, some inevitable rust stains from binding staples to the covers of several volumes, slight tears to covers, pages browning. All and all they are good for there age. Now being stored in acid free plastic bags.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing; posthumously collected by Arkham House founders August Derleth & Donald Wandrei. xxx, 458, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with dulling to gilt at spine, light wear to extremities and light soiling to textblock edge. Faint offsetting to endpapers and staining to gutters (likely from printer's glue), slightly affecting first and last few pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning, soiling, and edgewear, short tear to front spine fold, and v-shaped tear to rear panel. Joshi I-A-17. The second major omnibus of Lovecraft's work. The title story, first published in October 1919 in the amateur publication Pine Cones, features a backward Catskill killer turned asylum inmate patient who undergoes medical experiments to understand his dreams.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing; posthumously collected by Arkham House Founders August Derleth & Donald Wandrei. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with dulling to gilt at spine, light wear to spine ends and corners, and offsetting at front endsheets; light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning, light wear, shallow chip to crown of spine and rubbing to rear panel. A much nicer copy than usually encountered. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. The second major omnibus of Lovecraft's work first published in October 1919 in the amateur publication Pine Cones, featuring a short story about a backward Catskill killer turned asylum inmate patient who undergoes medical experiments to understand his dreams.