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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 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. Hubin, pp. 229-230.
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.
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.
THE HOUSE ON THE MOUND.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A historical novel based on the lives of Jane and Hercules Dousman from 1848 to 1857 in the House on the Mound at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. A sequel to BRIGHT JOURNEY (1940), which told the story of Hercules Dousman's early years. As a fur trader and frontier businessman (real estate, grain, lumber, packet companies, steamboats and railroads), Hercules Louis Dousman (1800-1868) became one of Wisconsin's wealthiest and influential men. Part of Derleth's Wisconsin Saga. Wilson 574.
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.
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1948. Octavo, Cloth. First edition. Story collection, most from Weird Tales and several other weird fiction pulps.
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection, most from Weird Tales and several other weird fiction pulps. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 520. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-96.
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2067 copies printed. Signed inscription by Derleth on the front free endpaper: "For Allen Hess / A book of trifles / Sincerely, / August Derleth." A collection of thirty-two stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES, plus a foreword by Derleth who calls this book "a kind of catchall, made up of stories for the most part rejected for inclusion in SOMEONE IN THE DARK and SOMETHING NEAR, plus certain more recent stories which have been added to this group of early stories primarily to set off the contrast." Derleth's third collection of weird fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 520. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-96.
PLACE OF HAWKS.
New York: Loring & Mussey Publishers, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7 [8-12] 13-250 [251-254: blank], five wood engravings by George Barford, original black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in silver, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front free end paper to William C. Weber, an editor at Scribner's. Weber was also a member of The Baker Street Irregulars and a book reviewer, sometimes using the byline "Judge Lynch." Derleth's third book and first collection of short fiction. Collects four linked novelettes: "Five Alone," "Faraway House," "Nine Strands in a Web" and "Place of Hawks." Dark, somber stories of madness, death and decay; Midwestern Gothic. "The emphasis is on the dark, brooding, and tragic in this study of twisted lives." - Wilson. Part of Derleth's Sac Prairie Saga. Wilson 541.
A PRAED STREET DOSSIER.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publisher, 1968. First edition. 2904 copies printed. Collects four articles about Solar Pons, including "The Beginnings of Solar Pons," and three Pons stories, "The Adventure of the Bookseller's Clerk," and two "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" and "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus," fantastic "off trail" stories written in collaboration with Mack Reynolds.
A PRAED STREET DOSSIER.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publisher, 1968. First edition. 2904 copies printed. Collects four articles about Solar Pons, including "The Beginnings of Solar Pons," and three Pons stories, "The Adventure of the Bookseller's Clerk," and two "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" and "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus," fantastic "off trail" stories written in collaboration with Mack Reynolds.
THE REMINISCENCES OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft and Moran: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eight Solar Pons adventures, introduction by Anthony Boucher and includes a chronology of Solar Pons stories. Hubin, pp. 229-230.
RESTLESS IS THE RIVER.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-514, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold and green, map end papers, top edge stained green. First edition. Set in the years 1839-1848, the story of a Hungarian nobleman who flees the Hapsburg empire and and settles in Wisconsin. A novel in the author's "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin.
THE RETURN OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen Solar Pons adventures with in introduction by Edgar Smith. Hubin, pp. 229-230.
SHADOW OF NIGHT.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-354 [355-356: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in greenish blue and and yellow, top edge stained light green. First edition. A novel which takes place in the 1850s, part of his "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin.
THE SOLAR PONS OMNIBUS. Edited by Basil Copper...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1982]. Octavo, two volumes, cloth. First edition. Collects sixty-eight Solar Pons adventures with illustrations by Frank Utpatel and foreword by Robert Bloch.
SOMEONE IN THE DARK.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1941 [i.e. 1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, second printing. Offset reprint done by Derleth of his first book 25 years after initial publication. 300 copies printed. The second Arkham House book published and Derleth's first collection of supernatural fiction. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 518. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-97.