Author: Derleth, August (ed.)

Arkham House: The First 20 Years 1939-1959: A History And Bibliography (80-copy hardcover edition).

Price: £1,100.00

Publisher: Arkham House: Sauk City, Wisconsin. : 1959.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 18622

Condition: Both boards show some soiling/staining, more so the rear board where the last two pages are also affected: a VG+ copy as issued without dustjacket in a fine custom-made traycase with gilt lettering on the spine.

Digest-sized (17.5cm x 11cm) 54-page booklet: 815 copies printed of which 80 copies were bound between boards to make a very limited hardcover edition. This is one of the hardcover copies (with custom-made traycase).
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Arkham House: The First 20 Years 1939-1959: A History And Bibliography (signed by August Derleth)..

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Arkham House: Sauk City, Wisconsin. : 1959.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 12959

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: VG+ copy.

Digest-sized (17.5cm x 11cm) 54-page booklet. 815 copies printed of which this is one of 735 paperbound copies (there was also an 80-copy hardcover edition). SIGNED BY DERLETH/''Sincerely, August Derleth''.
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Fire And Sleet And Candlelight: New Poems Of The Macabre.

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Arkham House: Sauk City, Wisconsin. : 1961.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 02096

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket with fading (from red to pink) along the spine panel.

Poetry collection: sequel to DARK OF THE MOON (1947). Collects 247 poems by 89 authors.
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From Other Worlds.

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Four Square: London. : 1964.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 33706

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Four Square 1107. Collects seven of the 14 stories contained in the US hardcover BEACHHEADS OF SPACE (1952), which was split into two paperback volumes for the Four Square 1964 British publication, each containing seven stories, the other volume retaining the original title. Note: the Weidenfeld UK 1954 hardcover only reprints seven of the 14 stories as well, but that is a different selection again.
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From Other Worlds.

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Four Square: London. : 1964.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 43337

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Neat sticker on front cover, price crossed out, a VG+ copy.

Four Square 1107. Collects seven of the 14 stories contained in the US hardcover BEACHHEADS OF SPACE (1952), which was split into two paperback volumes for the Four Square 1964 British publication, each containing seven stories, the other volume retaining the original title. Note: the Weidenfeld UK 1954 hardcover only reprints seven of the 14 stories as well, but that is a different selection again.
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New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits Of Tomorrow.

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Arkham House: Sauk City, Wisconsin. : 1998.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 02584

ISBN-13: 9780870541742

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

300 pages: with introduction and biographical notes by Joseph Wrzos. Science fiction reprint (though with several original stories, including an unpublished David Keller story) anthology: compiled by Derleth in the 1960s but did not see publication due to his death in 1971. Now completed by Joseph Wrzos.
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New Worlds For Old (Hugh Lamb's copy)..

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Four Square/Landsborough Publications Ltd: London. : 1963.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 50299

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, inked name on first page, a near fine (NF) copy.

Four Square 842. Abridged contents: reprints nine of the 19 stories from WORLDS OF TOMORROW (1953). Hugh Lamb's copy with his initials HL rubber-stamped at top corner of inner rear cover.
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The Other Side Of The Moon.

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Panther: London. : 1963.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49333

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a VG copy.

Panther 1541. Abridged contents: first published in hardcover in 1949, this Panther paperback collects ten of those twenty stories. ''Panther edition published July 1963'' on copyright page.
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The Time Of Infinity.

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: World Distributors/Consul Books: London. : 1963.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 46738

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges just a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy

Consul 1268. SF anthology. Collects nine of the 17 stories collected in THE OUTER REACHES (1951) which was split into two paperbacks for UK publication - the first eight stories keeping the same title, the remaining nine as THE TIME OF INFINITY. See: L. W. Currey: Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography Of First Printings Of Their Fiction p. 153.
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Time To Come [and a bibliographic mystery].

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Consul/World Distributors: London. : 1963.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 47377

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Top page edges a little browned, spine a little faded, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Original sf anthology, first published in hardcover in the USA in 1954. Abridged text: the 1954 hardcover had 12 stories, and the Berkley 1958 paperback original dropped two of those, listing ten. Now this UK paperback drops another three, with just seven stories. Not listed in Currey or Tuck. What makes this all REALLY curious is that it is stated on the copyright page - ''This Consul edition, complete and unabridged, published in England 1963''. But of course it is abridged. Furthermore, there is a two-page introduction by Derleth with ''Sauk City, Wisconsin/1 January 1954'' printed at...
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When Evil Wakes: A New Anthology Of The Macabre (Hugh Lamb's copy)..

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Corgi/Transworld Publishers: London. : 1965.

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 49172

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, edges of inner covers browning, a VG+ copy.

Corgi GN1707. Horror/supernatural anthology, first published in hardcover by Souvenir Press in 1963. Not published in the USA. Hugh Lamb's copy with his initials HL rubber-stamped at top corner of inner rear cover. A very uncommon 1965 Corgi paperback.
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Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft.

By: Lovecraft, H. P. (ed. August Derleth)

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Tower Books: Cleveland, Ohio. : 1945.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 12598

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Pages browned, small nick/chip along top edge of first three pages, else a near fine copy in a VG+ (bright, unfaded) dustjacket with shallow chipping along both spine edges and some dust-soiling to rear panel.

''First printing: April 1945'' on copyright page, with price of 49c on front inner flap. Edited, with an introduction, by August Derleth. Note: printed on ''high pulp content wartime paper stock'' which accounts for the severe browning to the pages of all copies - reprinted in 1950 on better quality text paper and priced $1.49. See L. W. Currey: SF & Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction p. 320.
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Author: Derleth, August (ed.)

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