April derleth (1 Ergebnisse)

dj. First Edition. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x; 405 [1]. One of 5000 copies thus, in publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Herb Arnold, re-priced by the publisher with a sticker at $12.95. Offsetting from the sticker, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Moderate general wear to cloth. Bright jacket shows light wear to edges. Very good. A collection of sixteen short stories published a couple of years after Derleth's death, it contains as his memorial the title story, one of his creations left unfinished at the time of his death in 1971. A must for everyone who is fond of the word 'ye' being repeated four times in a sentence.…