Sleep by Derleth August Editor (12 results)

Mass Market PaperBack. Condition: Very Good.

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.…

Condition: Good. Bantam 1967.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. This is a first edition, fourth large printing. There is wear around the edges and corners of the book and jacket; the jacket is sun faded and tattered on the corners and now has a mylar sleeve. Coye, Lee Brown (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a VG paperback 1964 Panther Books copy, black spine. 189 pages. Photos on request.

Softcover. Condition: Good No dust jacket as issued. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Front cover with 50 x 13mm white stain and 30 x 18mm black ink mark. 18mm splits at ends of joints, with paper tape repairs. Book exchange rubber stamps. 15mm tear and 6mm chip to upper blank margin of first leaf.; November 1965 paperback reprint. This edition has 12 stories only (the original 1944 edition collected 20 stories). 189, [3 (advertisements)] pages. Cover illustration of female vampire in purple margined robes. An anthology of 12 horror short stories. Contents: Count Magus by M. R. James; Cassius by Henry S. Whitehead; The Occupant of the Roo by Algernon Blackwood; The Return of the Sorcerer by Clark Ashton Smith; The Hand of the O'Mecca by Howard Wandrei; "He Cometh and He Passeth By" by H. R. Wakefield; The Mannikin by Robert Bloch; The House of Sounds by M. P. Shiel; The Horror in the Burying Ground by Hazel Heald; The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers; The Black Stone by Robert E. Howard; The Black Druid by Frank Belknap Long.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Armed Service edition, Number R-33. 4 ½" x 6 ½". Original colored pictorial wrappers. Good (spine faded; rubbed at edge). 384 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Pages 105 ? 112 with binding crease due to page being misbound. Contributors include: Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Wandrei, M. P. Shiel, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and others. See Currey page 153.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good. A collection of 20 stories, by many of the biggest names in the genre, edited by August Derleth. Missing the scarce DJ, VG book, some slight fading. Few stains front and back endpapers. Bleiler - 525. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection.…

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-33 in this important series, 20 horror stories by Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Wandrei, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, includes a foreword by Derleth, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Owner's name, very good.…

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-33 in this important series, 20 horror stories by Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Wandrei, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, includes a foreword by Derleth, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Jacket is split at spine, however, the Brodart does nicely to keep it presentable. Cthulthu bookplate. Scarce in any sort of dust jacket. Lee Brown Coye (illustrator).

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-x [1-2] 3-374, illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing with "FR" monogram on copyright page. A presentation copy with signed inscription by M. P. Shiel on the front free endpaper: "Harvey Gocher / from M. P. Shiel / Nov 1. '44." The first appearance in America of "Shiel's "The House of Sounds," first collected in Shiel's THE PALE APE AND OTHER PULSES (1911). "The House of Sounds," a revised version of "Vaila," which H. P. Lovecraft termed "Shiel's undoubted masterpiece . This story, in its final form, deserves a place among the foremost things of its kind." The first anthology edited by Derleth, published in September 1944, collecting twenty stories by M. P. Shiel, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and others, with illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, and foreword and notes by Derleth. "August Derleth, novelist, poet, pulp-writer and publisher, knows supernatural fiction as well as Ellery Queen knows detective stories. He knows, too, that anthologies are read by anthology readers, and has wisely designed a postgraduate course of reading -- taking for granted that you know the established classics and introducing you instead to such forgotten masterpieces as M. P. Shiel's magnificent 'The House of Sounds' (never before published in this country), or Alfred Noyes' haunting 'Midnight Express,' plus a thorough representation of the great 'Weird Tales' school founded by H. P. Lovecraft." - Anthony Boucher, San Francisco Chronicle. "Readers to whom the name M. P. Shiel is a password to a delirious and astounding world will only need to be told that SLEEP NO MORE contains a fine Shiel of good vintage. 'The House of Sounds,' which Mr. Derleth has winnowed out of England, where it has lain for fifty years, is a wild and gorgeous a tale as 'Purple Cloud' devotees could hanker for. August Derleth, who tirelessly gathers horrors for readers who have by this time certainly become connoisseurs, has done a careful job with SLEEP NO MORE, and if you read the book straight through and end with 'The Rats in the Wall,' by old master H. P. Lovecraft, the potion may work and you may sure enough never sleep again." - Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 525. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-260. Cloth sunned at edges, a very good copy in the badly chipped remains of the dust jacket worn at edges, flaps mostly separated from front and spine panels along folds, and missing the spine panel. A book rarely found signed by Shiel. (#164357). Signed.…