CHARLES PARKHURST RARE BOOKS

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FIRST EDITION SIGNED

Derleth, August and Mark Schorer. COLONEL MARKESAN and Less Pleasant People. Sauk City, Wisconsin,(1966): Arkham House, First Edition. SIGNED by the author, limited to 2500 copies, 285pp., bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, minor spot of damp staining along rear outer board edge otherwise near fine in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with light tanning to spine ad edges. A collection of earlier stories. A very nice copy.[pb.3306]

$300

Derleth, August. SOME NOTES ON H.P. LOVECRAFT. (Arkham House, New York,1959), First Edition. 12mo. 42pp, bound in original green printed wrappers, light off-setting to edges of rear panel otherwise nearly fine. [pb.3307]

$100

Derleth, August. IT'S A BOY'S WORLD. Sauk City, Wisconsin; (1948): Stanton and Lee, First Edition. illustrated by Clare Victor Dwiggins, 107pp., bound in gray pictorial cloth decorated in blue. A book of poems and pictures about boy life in the small town and country. Thoroughly American and enjoyed by the young, and the young at heart. A near fine copy in near fine unclipped dust jacket with tiny spot to front panel. [pb.2390]

$125

Derleth, August (editor). TRAVELLERS BY NIGHT. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1967. FIRST EDITION, limited to 2500 copies, 261pp., bound in black cloth, spine gilt. An anthology of new horror stories containing 14 never before published tales of the macabre. A fine copy in fine unclipped dust jacket. [pb.0380]

$100

Derleth, August. WISCONSIN MURDERS. Sauk City, Wisconsin; (1968): Mycroft & Moran, . FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 copies, 222p., bound in black cloth, spine gilt. An enquiry into Mayhem & Homicide in the Midwest. A fine copy in fine unclipped dust jacket. [pb.0371]

$150

Derleth, August. A BOY'S WAY, Poems. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Stanton & Lee, 1947. FIRST EDITION, 109pp.illustrated by Claire Victor Dwiggins, bound in blue pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in dark blue, a fine copy in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. A charming book about all those things boys do. [pb.0405]

$150

Derleth, August. COUNTRYMAN'S JOURNAL. New York (1963): Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Octavo. FIRST EDITION, 215pp., illustrated by Grisha Dotzenko, bound in light blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, near fine with a couple corners slightly bumped, in clipped dust jacket with some soiling to rear panel, chipping to spine ends, spine lightly sunned, a very good copy. [pb.0739]

$45