Derleth August James (77 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1781092352. 6/10/2026 11:52:32 AM.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Ken Kelly (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection fourteen short stories and one essay by various authors. Featured are Skeletons at the Feast by David Drake (essay), The Lost Legion by Rudyard Kipling, The Spell of the Sword by Frank Aubrey, Labboes Catch Meddlers by Manly Wade Wellman, Phantom Regiment by James Grant, The Spirit of Sergeant Davies by Michael & Mollie Hardwick, Death Holds the Post by August Derleth, The Solid Muldoon by Rudyard Kipling, Night on Mispec Moor by Larry Niven, Governor Manco & the Soldier by Washington Irving, The Spectre General by Theodore Gogswell, The Bells of Shoredan by Roger Zelazny, Ghosts of Mutiny by Michael & Mollie Hardwick, The Roll-Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Commander in the Mist by Sterling Lanier. Faint reading creases to the spine. In near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hanro Corp. 1953 Published quarterly. 130pp. Good condition with light wear and minor creasing to covers. There are 2 vertical tears across the center spine. The top tear ends at page 5, the bottom tear ends at pag 30. Light toning to page margins. See photos. whbx 3.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Please note, this is in French. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside; no interior markings. (Apologies in advance if the translations are less than perfect.) This anthology contains: Dans le lac - In the Lake by Richard Deming; La veuve de l'orphelin - The Widow of the Orphan by Richard Hardwick; Le calcul de Rita - The Calculation of Rita by Ed Lacy; Chapeau - Hat by Henry Slesar; Malencontres by Robert E. Alter; Un meurtre sans complication - A Murder Without Complication by C. B. Gilford; Le coup monte - The Blow Up by Douglas Farr; Les feux de l'amour - The Fires of Love by Fletcher Flora; La methode a Charlie - Charlie's Method by James Holding; La main - The Hand by William Brittain; La poupee vivante - The Live Puppet by Richard O. Lewis; Economies de bouts de cadavre by Frank Sisk; La bibliotheque hantee - The Haunted Bookseller by August Derleth; La mort joyeuse - The Happy Death by John Cortez; Fermez votre porte - Close Your Door by Donald Westlake; Tout vient a point - The Waiting Game by Pat Stadley; and Le tueur d'ebene - Ebony Killer by Robert C. Ackworth. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wilma Ervin; (illustrator). Book Club Edition. 415 pp. Quarter-bound in black on black boards; lettered in gilt on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some rubbing on the lower left of the front panel; no interior markings. Dj art by Wilma Ervin. This anthology contains: Under the Hammer by Georges Simenon; Poison a la Carte by Rex Stout; Lambs to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl; Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie; The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin; Bribery and Corruption by Ruth Rendell; Chef d'Oeuvre by Paul Gallico; La Specialite de M Duclos by Oliver La Farge; Three or Four for Dinner by L. P. Hartley; A Terrible Tale by Gaston Leroux; So You Won't Talk by Damon Runyon; Sauce for the Goose by Patricia Highsmith; A Very Commonplace Murder by P. D. James; A Dinner at Imola by August Derleth; The Feast in the Abbey by Robert Bloch; The Three Low Masses by Alphonse Daudet; The Coffin-Maker by Alexander Pushkin; Guests from Gibbet Island by Washington Irving; The Compleat Housewife by Richard Dehan; The Case of Mr Lucraft by Walter Besant and James Rice; The Man who Couldn't Taste Pepper by G. B. Stern; Final Dining by Roger Zelazny; The Long Dinner by H. C. Bailey; The Assassins' Club by Nicholas Blake; Dinner for Two by Roy Vickers; A Case for Gourmets by Michael Gilbert; and Rum for Dinner by Lawrence G. Blochman. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wilma Ervin; (illustrator). First American Edition. 415 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; previous owner's name inked out on the front free endpaper. This anthology contains: The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin; Bribery and Corruption by Ruth Rendell; Chef d'Oeuvre by Paul Gallico; La Specialite de M Duclos by Oliver La Farge; Three or Four for Dinner by L. P. Hartley; A Terrible Tale by Gaston Leroux; So You Won't Talk by Damon Runyon; Sauce for the Goose by Patricia Highsmith; A Very Commonplace Murder by P. D. James; A Dinner at Imola by August Derleth; The Feast in the Abbey by Robert Bloch; The Three Low Masses by Alphonse Daudet; The Coffin-Maker by Alexander Pushkin; Guests from Gibbet Island by Washington Irving; The Compleat Housewife by Richard Dehan; The Case of Mr Lucraft by Walter Besant and James Rice; The Man who Couldn't Taste Pepper by G. B. Stern; Final Dining by Roger Zelazny; Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie; The Long Dinner by H. C. Bailey; The Assassins' Club by Nicholas Blake; Dinner for Two by Roy Vickers; A Case for Gourmets by Michael Gilbert; Rum for Dinner by Lawrence G. Blochman; Under the Hammer by Georges Simenon; Poison a la Carte by Rex Stout; and Lambs to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. Size: 8vo. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edgewear to DJ. Scuffing as well. BCE (Book Club Edition).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 255 pages. with 18 short stories. >> This is a readig copy. Cover creasing ; interior pages are wrinkled; staining to front cover & first few pages, but story is not effected. cover scuffing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 231 pages >> Surface scratching to covers; minor staining to backcover; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good/ Fine. PHOTO Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. 224 pages. The contents include: The Secret of Sebek by Robert Bloch, In the Left Wing by Mark Schorer & August Derleth, The Necromantic Tale by Clark Ashton Smith, Battle of the Wizards by L. Ron Hubbard, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Casting the Runes by M. R. James, The Disappearance of Mrs. Macrechem by Richard Marsh, So Sweet as Magic by Bruce Elliott, and, Apprentice Magician by E. Hoffman Price, >>Cover creasing & scuffing Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Richard Powers; (illustrator). 1st Edition. PL Book 52-502. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Richard Powers. This anthology contains: Introduction by the editor; Crisis 1999 by Fredric Brown; The Talking Stone by Isaac Asimov; The Adventure of teh Snitch in Time by August Derleth and Mack Reynolds; Public Eye by Anthony Boucher; Try and Change the Past by Fritz Leiber; The Recurrent Suitor by Ron Goulart; Criminal Negligence by J. Francis McComas; The Past and Its Dead People by R. Bretnor; The Eyes Have It by James McKimmey; The Innocent Arrival by Karen Anderson and Poul Anderson; Third Offense by Frederik Pohl; Or the Grasses Grow by Avram Davidson; and Rope's End by Miriam Allen deFord. Book.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 5, No. 1. Edited by Boucher & McComas. Cover art by Emsh for "The Hypnoglyph" by John Anthony. Includes "The Star Gypsies" by William Lindsay Gresham; "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (Solar Pons series) by Mack Reynolds & August Derleth; "The Untimely Toper" (Gavagan's Bar series) by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt; "Man" by Dave Dryfoos; "Mop-Up" by Arthur Porges; "Yankee Exodus" by Ruth M. Goldsmith; "The Model of a Science Fiction Editor" by Anthony Boucher; "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James; "Judgement Planet" by Idris Seabright [Margaret St. Clair]; "Expendable" by Philip K. Dick; "The King's Wishes" by Robert Sheckley; "Star Light, Star Bright" by Alfred Bester. Tanning; edge and corner wear; slightly bent from poor stacking; minor creasing. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 148 Pages; CONTENTS = . Count Magnus; Cassius; The Occupant of the Room; The Return of the Sorcerer; Johnson Looked Back; The Hand of the O'Mecca; "He Cometh and He Passeth By!"; Thus I Refute Beelzy; The Mannikin > Cover creasing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards and dust jacket due to age and use. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. All pages are intact and otherwise clean, binding is sound. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. This copy is the Book Club Edition of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Geier, Earl (illustrator). Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: New. In.

Soft cover. Condition: Collectible - Good. 1st Edition. 1968 - Paperback. Book is in good condition. Book has wear on edges, creases on cover, sunning to spine and cover edges, slight curve to cover, chips on spine edge. MD SKU-6985045.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Avon paperback #90, 1946 printing, clean/tight, No marks or spine creasing, very light wear; (VG+). We will bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.

Eugene Gryniewicz (illustrator). Madison: White Hawk Press:, 1993. First edition, Stapled Wraps, Near Fine, 74 pp. Cover artwork by: Eugene Gryniewicz Lightly toned at extremities. First edition, Stapled Wraps, Near Fine,

Soft cover. Condition: FN+, Near New. Powers - Painted Cover Art! (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 174 pages. (ANTHOLOGY OF 13 STORIES), CONTENTS = "Crisis 1999" Fredric Brown; "Criminal Negligence" McComas; "The Talking Stone" Asimov; The Past and Its Dead People" Bretner; The Adventure of the Snich in Time" R eynolds & Derleth; "The Eyes Have It" McKimmey; " Public Eye" Boucher; "The Innocent Arrival" Poul & Karen Anderson; "Third Offense" Pohl; "The Recurrent Suitor" Goulart; "Try and Change the Past" Lei ber; "Rope's End" deFord; "Or the Grasses Grow" Davidson. >> Very nice copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Condition: New.

First Edition. AVON GHOST READER, Avon, 1946, first edition, some modest creasing to the front cover (not readily noticable), else a vg+ copy in full color pictorial wraps. Contributions by Collier, John; Merritt, A.; Seabrook, William; Heard, H.F.; Stoker, Bram; James, M.R., Whitehead, H.S.; Derleth, August; Lovecraft, H.P, and others.