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Scribners, 1940. Early printing, lacks the A indicating first printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. The history of the pioneer Middle West and the fourth book in the 'Sac Prairie Saga.' Maps on endpapers. Book cover rubbed. Dust jacket has small tears on foot and crown. Also missing small chips along top edge. Slight soiling to rear of dust jacket. Still a bright, very presentable copy.

Scribners. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Wisconsin, Fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1940. Unmarked, tight and square. Black cloth with ruled lines on spine and front board in gold. Nice looking book. . Early Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Later Printing. hb. Black cloth, green lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, 424 pp. Account of the life of Hercules Dousman, early fur trader in Wisconsin at Prairie du Chien. Map end papers. Blurb from dust jacket pasted to ffep, no marks in book, binding tight and covers clean. Lacking the dust jacket. Book condition VG.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Book. Very Good. Hardcover.

Scribners, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later printing. $3.50 price on jacket..

Scribners. Collectible - Very Good. Condition: Very Good +; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Early printing. Signed and inscribed by Derleth on the half-title. Black cloth boards with minimal wear, save bumping to extremities of spine. Internally clean and tightly bound. Rubbing, chipping and creasing along jacket edges with minor open tearing.

Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1997T. hardcover. Good. 0.9843 in x 8.5827 in x 5.7087 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Hawk & Whippoorwill, 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. A new and scarce edition of a work in the author's famed Sauk Prairie Saga featuring the redoubtable Hercules Dousman. Book is fine, clean and unmarked. Except for minor rubbing and corner nicking to the spine, so is the jacket. In an archival Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Moderate rubbing and short tears to the edges throughout dust jacket. Signed, "Sincerely, August Derleth" to the half-title page. 1st ed/1st printing.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Printing of the First Edition. HB. Black cloth, green lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, 424 pp., map endpapers. With Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Account of the life of Hercules Dousman, early fur trader in Wisconsin at Prairie du Chien. No marks in book, binding tight, and covers clean. In an unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket that shows light chipping, moisture stain top rear panel. Book condition VG+ in VG- DJ.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 424 pages, backstrip of dust jacket discolored, minor chipping..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1940. Hardcover. Signed, "Sincerely, August Derleth" to the half-title page. Black cloth with map endpapers. Stains to the top of the page edges. The dust jacket has a chip to the top corner and spine. Moderate rubbing and short tears to the edges. Publisher's price of $3.50 to the front flap. An historical novel about the fur trade. ; 424 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. Good/fair. black cloth, dust jacket unclipped, 424 pp, first edition, tears to dj, agency stamp to front end paper Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

NEW YORK NY: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. FINE IN A VERY GOOD D.J.. PUB 1940. LATER PRINTING. HARDCOVER. ISBN: 4TH BOOK IN AUTHOR'S "SAC PRAIRIE SAGA". D.J. HAS A SHORT TEAR WITH ASSOCIATED CREASES AT THE BOTTOM OF THEFRONT PANEL, A FEW SHORT TEARS AT THE TOP OF THE REAR PANEL, AND A SMALLBIT OF WEAR AT THE SPINE CORNERS. A VERY NICE COPY.. Keywords: MID-WESTERN REGION, NOVEL, ABCDEF.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Later printing of this part of the 'Sac Prairie Saga', a fictionalized account of fur trader & leading entrepreneur of frontier Wisconsin Hercules Dousman, mostly set in Prairie du Chien. INSCRIBED on the free endsheet but not personalized by Derleth: "Sincerely, [signature]". Hardcover, full black cloth, green titling, gilt decoration. Light wear to book; jacket shows some edgewear, chipping, some loss at head of spine. Text clean; [8], 424 pages, endsheet map.. Inscribed by the Author. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 5¾" by 8".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. spine a little dulled. Part of the Sac Prairie Saga. 424 pages. gift inscription to previous owner on half title page and also signed "Sincerly, August Derleth" below ; 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 "; Signed by Author.

424 pages. Octavo (8" x 5") in original black cloth with green lettering to spine and covers with gilt lines, and map to end papers and paste downs. Inscribed by Derleth. First edition.Detective fiction represented a substantial body of August Derleth's work. Most notable among this work was a series of 70 stories in affectionate pastiche of Sherlock Holmes, whose creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he admired greatly. These included one published novel as well (Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey). The series features a (Sherlock Holmes-styled) British detective named Solar Pons, of Praed Street in London. The series was greatly admired by such notable writers and critics of mystery and detective fiction as Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay), Anthony Boucher, Vincent Starrett and Howard Haycraft. In his 1944 volume The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, Ellery Queen wrote of Derleth's The Norcross Riddle, an early Pons story: "How many budding authors, not even old enough to vote, could have captured the spirit and… Leer más

Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. Hardcover. Signed; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 424 pages .