Evening Spring by August Derleth, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Only year 1945 on copyright page. Inscription by August Derleth on front end paper. Black cloth covered boards are clean and bright. Embossed lettering of title on covers and spine bright and unmarred. Binding is firm and fully in tact- pages are well attached - no loose pages. DJ is clean and not price clipped. Price on inside flap is $3.50. DJ is bright with light shelf wear with some rubbing along the folds and spine.Light fading on spine. DJ in mylar jacket. End papers are browning and page edges lightly browning. This book is over 77+ years old. No creases or tears on pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First Edition Thus. 308 pp, the book and contents are clean and tight, the covers have some light lower edge rubbing, dust jacket has some light scuffing and edge wear, the AUTHOR HAS SIGNED A SHORT INSCRIPTION. Author Signed Inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and warmly inscribed to Brother Leo Ryan with the significant line "My favorite among my novels - for obvious reasons." Aside from price clipping, a very fine, clean copy protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover. Signed.

Hardcover. First thus. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 308 pages. Black cloth with green lettering and gold lines in dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author, August Derleth, on the front free endpaper: "For Linda / The way it was / August Derleth". The dust jacket is not price clipped and the price of $3.50 is evident. Some rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket and the spine of the dust jacket is lightly sun faded. There is some toning to the inside front and rear cover and front and rear endpapers. Originally published in 1941 by Charles Scribner's and Sons, this is the first thus of the Stanton and Lee printing with same date on title and copyright page and no additional printings by this publisher noted. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Originally copyrighted by the author in 1941 and published by Charles Scribner's Sons.This edition published in 1945. Price clipped dust jacket is the first state jacket for this edition by Frank Utpatel with the evening street scene. Jacket has light spine end wear and small chip to lower edge of front panel, now protected with paper back polyester film. Inscribed on recto of the front free end page "for Don Little - / my own favorite - / for obvious reasons/ Cordially, / August Derleth". Book has offset to end papers. 308 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1945, 1st edition, Dates Match on Title & copyright page, VG-/GOOD+, Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, DJ Small Triangular Chip Top Left edge but titles & Illustration INTACT, DJ tiny chips Tears Wear extremities, 308 pgs, DJ spine top edge chip out removing word Evening, Black cloth with Gold gilt Decoration on front & Lettered in Green Cover lite Wear & tiny corner Ding, Gold gilt decoration on spine cvr, Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stanton and Lee. Sauk City, Wisconsin. 1945. 308 pages. First Stanton and Lee edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by author and Arkham House founder, August Derleth. Signed, inscribed and doodled on FFEP: For __ __, My Favorite Novel, Sincerely, August Derleth, with a drawn smiliey face. Originally, Evening in Spring was published by Charles Scribners & Sons in 1941. Derleth re-released the title with Stanton & Lee in 1945 with his preferred DJ, a Frank Utpatel designed DJ with a girl on the street at dusk; hence this is a first edition thus. Derleth considered this title his finest work (and favorite per his inscription.) An autobiographical novel of first love beset by small-town religious bigotry. The work received critical praise from The New Yorker, amongst others. Book is tight; binding and hinges are sound. Light rubbing to black cloth panels. Toning to endpapers, mostly in gutters. DJ shows light handling along edges with a couple of small rubs and shallow chips. A nice signed presentation copy; VG/VG. Signed by Author(s).