Dark by Derleth August: Signed (11 results)

Black Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. 418 Pp. 2634 Copies Printed. First Edition. Grey Dust Jacket Lettered In Green, Priced $3.00. Generically Inscribed By August Derleth. A Clean, Solid Copy, Trace Of Wear At Corners. Book Has Very Faint Traces Of Old Dampness Around Base Of Spine. Dj Is First Issue, Green Lettering On Grey-Blue Background, 22 Titles On Rear Panel Ending With 7 Titles "Coming In 1947", Not Price-Clipped, Slight Wear With Minuscule Losses At Corners, Slight Browning To Spine., Book And Dj Show Dampstaining On Reverse Around Base Of Spine, Also Surface Deterioration Of Paper Around Base Of Spine With A Loss Of About 1/2" X 1/8" Of Paper Of Dj; Most Or All Of These First Issue Jackets Were Dampstained, And Many Or Most Were Later Replaced With Second Issue Jackets. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Anthology of original Horror/Dark Fantasy stories. Bloch, Brennan, Jacobi, Metcalfe, Wakefield, Wandrei, others. SIGNED by David Drake and Ramsey Campbell at their stories. Fine in VG jacket; age-yellowed; light soiling. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Black cloth gilt. Limited to 2500 copies. Inscribed to ffep "Sincerely, August Derleth." DJ front cover is glued to front pastedown. Slight corner/edge wear, very small tear mid spine. Few poems have some underlining/notes. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 418 pages; Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, signed by Robert Bloch in red marker on page 1. Slight age toning to dust jacket. Very minor edge wear to jacket, and head and heel of jacket spine. Price on front flap is unclipped. Some edge wear to hard cover binding. Age toning and some age spotting to text block. Pages are clean. Binding is strong and square. Book comes in protective mylar. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing in a later state dust jacket with a $3.50 price to the front flap; A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only mild rubbing to the folds and edges. SIGNED and inscribed by August Derleth (editor) to the front free paper. A pristine copy of this collection of macabre poetry from various authors including Lovecraft, Poe, Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, etc, It would be difficult to find a nicer copy of this title, particularly signed by August Derleth. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good +. Signed and inscribed by the editor and one contributing author, J. Ramsey Campbell. Black cloth over boards with gilt-debossed particulars to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is lightly sunned with small dampstain to lower part of fore edge. Boards are clean and bright with bumping and light rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has light creasing to tail of spine and scuff markings to fold of rear flap, but is otherwise clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET [$3.00] IS VERY GOOD TO NEAR FINE CONDITION,LIMITED 2500 COPIES,SIGNED-SINCERELY, AUGUST DERLETH. Signed by Author(s).

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv-xv] xvi [1-3] 4-418 [419: colophon] [420: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth to Robert Edward Briney on the front free endpaper. 2634 copies printed. "The single most vital volume in any collection of supernatural verse. Lengthy, rich, and representative; 64 poets, 210 poems . A milestone volume . an influence upon the emerging Small Press poets (late 1960s-1980s)." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-15. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-48. Briney's bookplate affixed to front paste-down (hidden under front flap). Spine ends a little bumped, some age-darkening to text block, a very good copy in very good first state dust jacket (printed in green and black and priced "$3.00" on front flap) with rubbing spine ends and corner tips, mild shelf wear with shallow loss at upper right front corner and lower spine end, and rubbing along front spine fold. (#138519). Signed.…

First edition. Octavo, cloth. Signed inscription by Derleth to Robert Briney on the front free endpaper. 2634 copies printed. "The single most vital volume in any collection of supernatural verse. Lengthy, rich, and representative; 64 poets, 210 poems . A milestone volume . an influence upon the emerging Small Press poets (late 1960s-1980s)." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-15. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down (hidden by front flap). Spine ends a little bumped, some darkening to text block, a very good copy in a very good first state dust jacket (printed in green and black and priced "$3.00" on front flap) with the corners and spine ends rubbed with mild shelf wear, slight loss to upper right front corner and base of spine panel, spine fold rubbed. Errata slip laid in at copyright page. (14652).…

Condition: Near Fine. dj. First Edition. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1941. First edition. Octavo. vi, [2], 335, [1] pp. Publisher's original black Holliston Novelex cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the original unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Inscribed by August Derleth on the half-title. The second book published by Arkham House and Derleth's first collection of supernatural fiction, issued at a formative moment in the history of one of America's most influential publishers of weird and fantastic literature. The colophon states an edition of 1,000 copies; Arkham House records give an actual printing of 1,115 copies. The collection brings together seventeen macabre and supernatural tales, including "The Return of Hastur," "The Sandwin Compact," and "Beyond the Threshold," works closely associated with Derleth's development and continuation of the Cthulhu Mythos following the death of H. P. Lovecraft. Someone in the Dark also occupies an important place in the history of Arkham House. Following the publication of Lovecraft's The Outsider and Others in 1939, its commercial reception helped demonstrate the viability of Arkham House as an ongoing specialist publisher rather than an imprint devoted solely to memorializing Lovecraft. An especially desirable signed example of this early Arkham House title, retaining the original Frank Utpatel dust jacket. Publisher's cloth clean and well preserved, with bright spine gilt. Dust jacket with minor edge rubbing, light toning to the upper flap margins, and small chips at the crown and corner tips, without loss to the lettering. Text block clean and firmly bound, with faint natural dusting to the top edge. Near Fine. . Signed.…

First Edition. SOMEONE IN THE DARK, Arkham House, 1941, first edition, first printing, some mild age toning and dustiness to the page edges, else just about fine in vg+ pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Arkham House #2. Allegedly 1/1,115 copies. A nice copy. Signed by the author on a plate laid in.…