Derleth August Stephen Grendon (16 results)

almost near fine, slight spine darkening jacket only, NO BOOK.

hardcover. Condition: Used, good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Hardcover, good condition. 1st edition limited to 2500 copies. Dust Jacket very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. F/F dj, now in archival Brodart. Collect seventeen tales of the macabre.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The spine is slightly worn with chipping at the bottom. Light edge chipping to the front and rear covers with few small edge tears and a small triangular piece missing from the bottom edge of the rear cover. The pages are browned with a little creasing and chipping to the corners. Contains Come and Go Mad by Brown, From the Vasty Deep by Wakefield, The Masher by Whyte, The Blue Spectacles by Grendon (Derleth), How Strange My Love by Branch, The Ubiquitous Professor Karr by Coblentz, In the X-Ray by Leiber, The Previous Incarnation by Lawlor, Floral Tribute by Bloch and Dark O' the Moon by Quinn. Cover art by Fox and interior art by Giunta, Bok, Dolgov, Fox, Dolgov and Napoli. Fox, Matt; Giunta, John; Bok, Hannes; Dolgov, Boris; Napoli, Vincent; (illustrator).…

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The spine is worn with quite a bit of surface chipping. Browning to the rear cover with some light edge chipping to the covers. The pages are browned but otherwise unmarked. Contains Four from Jehlam by Harding, Weirdisms by Coye, Food for Demons by Evans, The Thirteenth Floor by Gruber, Open Season on the Bottoms by Merrick, The Great Stone Death by MacDonald, A Curse by Cooper, Lover in Scarlet by Lawlor, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Bloch, The Big Shot by Russell, The Heads on Easter Island by Drake, Balu by Grendon (Derleth), The Bonan of Baladewa by Counselman and Our Fair City by Heinlein. Cover art by Coye and interior art by Giunta, Bok, Dolgov, Coye and Napoli. Coye, Lee Brown; Bok, Hannes; John Giunta; Dolgov, Boris; Napoli, Vincent (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A very good copy of the presumed first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement, although the dates on the title and copyright pages correspond), lacking a dust-jacket. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: " For Bob Cromie - the best tales of Stephen Grendon / (August Derleth)." Cromie was the well-known book reviewer in Chicago. Previous owner's name modestly in ink at front free endpaper, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding still rather bright and fresh in appearance, with a bit of wear at the extremities of the black cloth boards and some dulling to the gilt lettering on the spine. A handsome copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Mr. George and Other Odd Persons by Stephen Grendon August Derleth Firm bright square copy. Bright dust jacket with minor edge wear. Light fading. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover. Limited to 2500 copies. Collects 17 of August Derleth's (under the pseudonym Stephen Grendon) short stories of fantasy and horror. Robert E. Hubbell(Cover Artist) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 2546 copies printed. Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, #74. Corners lightly bumped. Small bump to head of spine. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with corresponding bump and light toning to head of spine panel. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. A collection of stories, most of which appeared in Weird Tales between 1944 and 1950 under August Derleth's pseudonym Stephen Grendon. "The supernatural stories in the collection are among the best ever produced by Derleth"?Jaffrey. 2546 copies. viii, 240 pages. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 70. Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 74. First edition (only Arkham printing). A fine copy in a nice dust jacket, tanned a bit at the spine with a few very short tears. With the letterpress estate bookplate of James Strand on the front pastedown. This copy came from the important Arkham House collection assembled by James Strand of Portland, Oregon. After his death, in August 2023, his house was looted and most of his books were stolen. Some were subsequently recovered by the FBI. This book was among those not taken by thieves.…

Hardcover. dj. First edition (& 1st printing). Seventeen fantasy stories, including some of Derleth's best, most of them first printed in Weird Tales. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2546 copies printed. Seventeen fantasy stories, including some of Derleth's best, most first printed in WEIRD TALES. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 524. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-95. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $4.00 on the front flap with none of the usual tanning to the spine panel. (#178694).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODustjacket, Stated 1st Edition, 1965, 1st printing, VG+/VG, NOJACKET, Blue cloth lettered in black on Spine cvr light rub, wear, Interior, nice tight clean light Fox Wear, 147 pgs,NOT EX-LIBRARY , The story involves a canoe trip ending with strange goings-on in Villa Louis at Prairie du Chien Wisconsin (a real place, now a museum). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Full black cloth boards under blue & white pictorial jacket priced at $4.00. Turning in to spine ends, but a nice copy of the book; jacket has some spine wear & toning, still VG. Inscribed by author "Cordially, August (Stephen Grendon) Derleth" on front endpaper. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 2516 copies (Jaffrey HORRORS & UNPLEASANTRIES PG-75) SIGNED as August Derleth & Stephen Grendon on free endpaper. Collects 17 stories most of which first appeared in WEIRD TALES magazine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. The Arkham Collector Vol. 1 by August Derleth H. Russell Wakefield H.P. Lovecraft Stephen Grendon Firm copy. Mild foxing to top edge of text block. Mild bumping to bottom corners. Spotting to cloth. BOOK.

Condition: Near Fine. dj. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. [viii], 239, [1] pp. Inscribed by August Derleth on the front free endpaper: "for Grant Tedrow / the best weird tales / of / Stephen / (August Derleth) / Grendon". Publisher's original black Holliston Novelex cloth with bright gilt lettering stamped to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $4.00 price intact on front flap; cloth clean, jacket showing mild, uniform age-toning to spine panel and upper edges, with faint rubbing at tips. Text block clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout with negligible dusting to top edge. Colophon notes an edition of 2,500 copies (with Arkham records citing 2,546 copies delivered by The Collegiate Press). An Arkham House collection of seventeen macabre tales written by August Derleth under his Stephen Grendon pseudonym, originally published between 1944 and 1952 in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. Features hallmark entries including "The Tsantsa in the Parlor," "Mrs. Manifold," and the title story "Mr. George," which was twice dramatized for television, notably on Boris Karloff's Thriller. M3. . Signed.…