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Sauk City WI: Arkham House. Very Good+. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [modest shelwear, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), small ink check-marks next to all titles in the table of contents; supplied with a new FACSIMILE jacket, in Fine condition]. INSCRIBED generically and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Sincerely, / August Derleth." Derleth's third story collection, bringing together work originally published from 1928 to 1948, "stories of all kinds -- there are tales of psychic residue and ghostly vengeance, of witchcraft and ancient sorcery, of poetic justice and pure horror, of black magic and things that go bump in the night." Contents: "The Shadow on the Sky"; "Birkett's Twelfth Corpse"; "The White Moth"; "Nellie Foster"; "Wild Grapes"; "Feigman's Beard"; "The… Leer más

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 221pp. Sharp First Edition, First Printing, one of only 2067 copies printed. Square, tight and clean throughout with a bump to the heel and a bit of wear to the crown. Some off-setting to end-papers. Clean interior. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($3.00), has some fairly mild edge-wear with some shallow wrinkles to the heel. Toning to rear panel, spine and flap edges. Still bright with no chipping or tears. Inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front end-paper to noted American SF/Horror collector Hardin Ramey, For Hardin Ramey, a book of twisted tales. Sincerely, August Derleth". A solid collectable copy at a great price. (Jaffery, Horrors & Unpleasantries, pg.44).