Not Long for This World [*SIGNED*]

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 Drifting Snow"; "The Return of Sarah Purcell"; "Logoda's Heads"; "The Second Print"; "Mrs. Elting Does Her Part"; "A Little Knowledge"; "Mrs. Bentley's Daughter"; "Those Who Seek"; "Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream"; "The Tenant"; "The Lilac Bush"; "'Just a Song at Twilight'"; "A Matter of Sight"; "Chronicles of the City-States" (a group of five tales); "He Shall Come"; "Mrs. Lannisfree"; "After You, Mr. Henderson"; "Baynter's Imp"; "The Lost Day"; "A Collector of Stones"; "The God-Box"; "Saunder's Little Friend." ****NOTE again that the dust jacket on this book is a FACSIMILE, not an original.**** Signed by Author .