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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Scribners, 1937. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Author's first novel set in Sac Prairie (a thinly disguised Sauk City), Wisconsin, set over a three-year period in the late 1800s. "A flawed, but highly interesting book for Derleth fans." A true FIRST EDITION, first printing (with the requisite "A") from 1937, this hardcover has matte black cloth-covered boards with green design & lettering to front & spine. Condition is just Good: generally clean, with moderate tanning, heavier around all page edges & to endpapers. Binding strong & straight, rubbing to extremities, heavy at both ends of spine & all corners (with some cloth fraying & bumping). Some small tears to front board where old stickers were inexpertly removed, leaving small gouges. Some pen notations/numbers inside front cover. Missing DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't…
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Still Is the Summer Night
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with green lettering and gold rules, pictorial dust jacket. 356pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket rather edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with several tiny edge chips and faintly sunned spine; 1" glue stain to rear board. Handsome and tight first edition of this regional writer's first lengthy novel -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from him, 1p, 5¼" X 8", Sauk City, WI, 23 June 1971. Addressed to Bill Cummings. Near fine. On letterhead featuring striking woodcut at top, Derleth chats about "Selected Writings of Violet Sturgis Cosby," in part: "I don't have time to read it now, but I will hold it here if you don't mind until such time as I can go through it...." He mentions fellow regionalist writer Jerry Apps ("Yes, I know & reviewed Jerry Apps's book. He will be teaching on the same program with me in July....") and closes off with "Good hunting in New England!" Signed large and bold in blue ballpoint.
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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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STILL IS THE SUMMER NIGHT
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NEW YORK NY: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. VERY GOOD+ IN A NEAR VERY GOOD D.J.. PUB MARCH 1937. FIRST EDITION. REVIEW COPY WITH SLIP LAID-IN . BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITH CORNERS LIGHTLY BUMPED AND TYPICAL GLUE STAINING OF THE ENDPAPERS. D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS WITH MODERATE LOSS, AND MODEST CHIPPING TO THE ENDS OF THE COLOR FADED SPINE PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. .
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First of Derleth's Sac Prairie Saga, an interlinked series of novels, short stories, essays and poems detailing life in southwest Wisconsin, taken as a microcosm of the human experience. INSCRIBED on the free endsheet: "Sincerely, August Derleth". First edition (first printing) with 'A' on copyright page. Hardcover, full black cloth, gilt lines, green titling. Light wear to book, couple of faint scuffs; later issue jacket mentioning later Sac Prairie titles shows some rubbing, light edgewear, short tear, minor creasing, scuff to front panel. Text clean; [10], 356 pages.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
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