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100 BOOKS BY AUGUST DERLETH.
Sauk City, Wis. Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signed by Derleth on the first leaf. 1225 copies printed of which this is one of 1025 paperbound copies.
100 BOOKS BY AUGUST DERLETH.
Sauk City, Wis. Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 1225 copies printed of which this is one of 1025 paperbound copies.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ORIENT EXPRESS.
NY: The Candlelight Press, 1965. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition, first printing. Review slip laid in. A Solar Pons novelette later collected in The Solar Pons Omnibus (1982).
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ORIENT EXPRESS.
NY: The Candlelight Press, 1965. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition. Review slip laid in. A Solar Pons novelette later collected in The Solar Pons Omnibus (1982).
THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNIQUE DICKENSIANS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Utpatel, decorated wrappers. First edition. 2012 copies printed. A Solar Pons adventure. Bibliomystery. Later collected in THE CHRONICLES OF SOLAR PONS (1973). Penzler, Bibliomysteries, pp. 41.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNIQUE DICKENSIANS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Utpatel, decorated wrappers. First edition. 2012 copies printed. A Solar Pons adventure. Bibliomystery. Later collected in THE CHRONICLES OF SOLAR PONS (1973). Penzler, Bibliomysteries, pp. 41.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNIQUE DICKENSIANS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Utpatel, decorated wrappers. First edition. 2012 copies printed. A Solar Pons adventure. Bibliomystery. Later collected in THE CHRONICLES OF SOLAR PONS (1973). Penzler, Bibliomysteries, pp. 41.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNIQUE DICKENSIANS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Utpatel, decorated wrappers. First edition. 2012 copies printed. A Solar Pons adventure. Bibliomystery. Later collected in THE CHRONICLES OF SOLAR PONS (1973). Penzler, Bibliomysteries, pp. 41.
ARKHAM HOUSE: THE FIRST 20 YEARS 1939-1959. A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1959. Octavo, decorated wrappers. First edition. 815 copies printed of which this is one of 735 paperbound copies.
ARKHAM HOUSE: THE FIRST 20 YEARS 1939-1959. A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1959. Octavo, decorated boards. First edition. 815 copies printed of which this is one of 80 hardbound copies.
THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve stories with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.
THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve stories with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.
THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth on the half title page. Collects twelve stories with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.
THE CHRONICLES OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publisher, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The final collection of Pons tales. Collects ten stories, foreword by Allen Hubin.
THE CHRONICLES OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publisher, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The final collection of Pons tales. Collects ten stories, foreword by Allen Hubin.
THE CHRONICLES OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publisher, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The final collection of Pons tales. Collects ten stories, foreword by Allen Hubin.
THE CHRONICLES OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publisher, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The final collection of Pons tales. Collects ten stories, foreword by Allen Hubin.
COUNTRY GROWTH.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-14] 1-322, original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue and yellow. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth to author and anthologist Phil Stong: "To Phil Stong / With admiration and regard. / Cordially / August Derleth." A collection of short stories, part of his "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin.
EVENING IN SPRING.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-308, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold and blue, top edge stained dark blue, First edition. A novel in the author's "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin. "This work Derleth considered among his finest. What The Milwaukee Journal called "this beautiful little love story," is an autobiographical novel of first love beset by small town religious bigotry. The work received critical praise: The New Yorker considered it a story told "with tenderness and charm," while the Chicago Tribune concluded: "It's as though he turned back the pages of an old diary and told, with rekindled emotion, of the pangs of pain and the sharp, clear sweetness of a boy's first love." Helen Constance White, wrote in The Capital Times that it was "...the best articulated, the most fully disciplined of his stories." - D'Ambrosio, A WEE BIT OF WISCONSIN, pp. 33-34.
HARRIGAN'S FILE.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects all of Derleth's science fiction short stories, most first published in SF magazines during the 1950s. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 530.
HARRIGAN'S FILE.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects all of Derleth's science fiction short stories, most first published in SF magazines during the 1950s. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 530.
"IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES": THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth on the front free end paper. Laid in is a holiday greetings postcard from Luther Norris, publisher of the Pontine Press.Foreword by Vincent Starrett. The first Solar Pons collection, twelve stories. "As pastiche goes, these are quite good, and arguably the best of their kind-- rarely has such an open copy of an original had so many impressive followers-- Solar Pons can count among his fans the likes of Ellery Queen, Vincent, Starrett and Anthony Boucher." - From an article on Solar Pons by Gregg Zullo and Kevin Burton Smith at the Thrilling Detective website.
LONESOME PLACES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2201 copies printed. Story collection. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 523. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-93.
THE MASK OF CTHULHU.
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Cthulhu Mythos stories which all but one first appeared in Weird Tales. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. 521. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-94.
MR. FAIRLIE'S FINAL JOURNEY.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publisher, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3493 copies printed. The first of the two Solar Pons novels to be published.