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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. The fourth Solar Pons collection.
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 stories Solar Pons adventures with in introduction by Edgar Smith.
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.
SOMEONE IN THE DARK.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1941 [i.e. 1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, second printing. 300 copies printed. The second Arkham House book 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.
SOMETHING NEAR.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second collection of Derleth's fiction published by Arkham House, twenty-one stories first published in the pulps, eleven of which appeared in WEIRD TALES. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 519. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-98.
SOMETHING NEAR.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second collection of Derleth's fiction published by Arkham House, twenty-one stories first published in the pulps, eleven of which appeared in WEIRD TALES. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 519. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-98.
SOMETHING NEAR.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-274 [275: colophon] [276: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 2054 copies printed. The second collection of Derleth's fiction published by Arkham House. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 519. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-98.
THIRTY YEARS OF ARKHAM HOUSE 1939-1969: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, Publishers, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Revision and expansion of Derleth's ARKHAM HOUSE: THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS 1939-1959 (1959) that provides a brief history of the firm and checklist of publications through 1969 issued under the imprints of Arkham House, Mycroft & Moran, and Stanton & Lee.
THIRTY YEARS OF ARKHAM HOUSE 1939-1969: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, Publishers, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Revision and expansion of Derleth's ARKHAM HOUSE: THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS 1939-1959 (1959) that provides a brief history of the firm and checklist of publications through 1969 issued under the imprints of Arkham House, Mycroft & Moran, and Stanton & Lee.
THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 996 copies printed. Collects three Solar Pons adventures.
THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2470 copies printed. Collects five Mythos stories which all first appeared in Weird Tales magazine. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 522. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-99.
THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2470 copies printed. Collects five Mythos stories which all first appeared in Weird Tales magazine. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 522. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-99.
WISCONSIN MURDERS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1958 copies printed. Nonfiction; accounts of Wisconsin homicides.
DARK MIND, DARK HEART.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2493 copies printed. Original anthology with seventeen stories by Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. The Campbell story is his first published, when he was just 16 years old. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-347. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-255.
DARK MIND, DARK HEART.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology with seventeen stories by Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. The Campbell story is his first published, when he was just 16 years old. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-347. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-255.