The Wisconsin, River of a Thousand Isles. Illustrated by John Steuart Curry de Derleth, August, 1909-1971

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/Fair+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, red, white, grey with black print; DJ has tears to spine ends (taped), call number label at bottom of spine, smudging/shelfwear; Boards in black cloth with green print, light wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has faint stamp to top edge, else clean and tight; 514 pages. 1342445. FP New Rockville Stock.

Paperback / softback. New.

[New York] Crowell-Collier Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 168 pages; Description: viii, 168 p. 24 cm. Bibliographical notes: p. 163-165. Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Hardback. New.

Chicago, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 306 pages; Description: 306 p. ill. 21 cm. ""Illustrations by Frank Utpatel, endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt"" --title page. Subjects: Derleth, August William, 1909-1971 -- Journal -- Diaries -- Sac Prairie, Wisconsin -- United States -- Life and culture -- Local history.

Sauk City: Stanton & Lee, 1948. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, grey with white print; DJ in mylar, slight edgewear, else clean and bright; Boards in green cloth with black print, slight wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has small stain on front flyleaf, else clean and tight, slight age-toning to paper; Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; 322 pages. 1335610. FP New Rockville Stock.

Prairie City, IL:: James A. Decker, 1942., 1942. 8vo. 148 pp. Green gilt-stamped cloth; jacket a remnant. Very good. First edition. Derleth is best remembered as the first book publisher of H. P. Lovecraft, for his personal contributions to the Chthulu mythos, and as the founder of Arkham House. However, Derleth, a lifelong Midwesterner was also highly regarded in his own time as fiction writer and occasional poet.

Sauk City, Wis. : Arkham House, 1976. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Fine in all aspects. 203 pages; Description: 203 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Ghost stories, American. Fantasy fiction, American.

Francestown, N. H. , Golden Quill Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 64 pages; Description: 64 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Derleth, August William (1909-1971) --Poetry. Notes: A selection of The Book Club for Poetry.

225 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed. First edition.To most of his family, and to the residents of the Wisconsin town in which he had lived so many years, the death of cynical, blasphemous old Van Vliet Narracong was quite natural. He had led a hard life and his exit from it was nothing to arouse conjecture. But his stern old sister thought otherwise and called in Judge Peck, the juridical detective whose uncannily penetrating mind had solved other strange cases of murder. For it was soon apparent that Van Vliet had been murdered--so cleverly that only the most observant eyes could discover the method. There were plenty of people who disliked him but it was Judge Peck's job to find out who hated Van Viet enough to go to the extreme of murder. So Judge Peck probed the secrets of the curious Narracong household, sounded its devious undercurrents, and untangled the strange family… Leer más