Sleep by August Derleth Editor (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book has light rubbing and smudging to covers with brief pen marks to center of front cover, modest wear to edges and corners with scuffs, faint creases along spine hinges. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, clean and unmarked pages; an overall sturdy reading copy.

Mass Market PaperBack. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Good. Bantam 1967.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a VG paperback 1964 Panther Books copy, black spine. 189 pages. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing with "FR" monogram on the copyright page. Terracotta cloth boards with labels stamped in black. Missing the dust jacket. A yellow, upside-down, 'Francis-Orr, Beverly Hills' medallion is affixed to the front endpaper. (The iconic stationary store was established in 1924.) A VERY GOOD copy with faded edges and spine, bumping pf corners. slight spotting on endpapers, dark streak on black panel, and a small hole near bottom of spine. Book.

Lee Brown Coye (illustrator). First edition with the Rinehart Colophon on the copyright page. Bound in orange cloth with black decoration and lettering. A Very Good copy. The spine is faded and rubbed at the tips. Small rubs and bumps to the corners. Gift inscription inked on the front fly leaf. Mild toning to the pages. Stories by Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, and others. Illustrated by Lee Brown Coye. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Front cover with 50 x 13mm white stain and 30 x 18mm black ink mark. 18mm splits at ends of joints, with paper tape repairs. Book exchange rubber stamps. 15mm tear and 6mm chip to upper blank margin of first leaf. ; November 1965 paperback reprint. This edition has 12 stories only (the original 1944 edition collected 20 stories). 189, [3 (advertisements)] pages. Cover illustration of female vampire in purple margined robes. An anthology of 12 horror short stories. Contents: Count Magus by M. R. James; Cassius by Henry S. Whitehead; The Occupant of the Roo by Algernon Blackwood; The Return of the Sorcerer by Clark Ashton Smith; The Hand of the O'Mecca by Howard Wandrei; "He Cometh and He Passeth By" by H. R. Wakefield; The Mannikin by Robert Bloch; The House of Sounds by M. P. Shiel; The Horror in the Burying Ground by Hazel Heald; The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers; The Black Stone by Robert E. Howard; The Black Druid by Frank Belknap Long.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Armed Service edition, Number R-33. 4 ½" x 6 ½". Original colored pictorial wrappers. Good (spine faded; rubbed at edge). 384 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Pages 105 ? 112 with binding crease due to page being misbound. Contributors include: Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Wandrei, M. P. Shiel, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and others. See Currey page 153.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good. A collection of 20 stories, by many of the biggest names in the genre, edited by August Derleth. Missing the scarce DJ, VG book, some slight fading. Few stains front and back endpapers. Bleiler - 525. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-33 in this important series, 20 horror stories by Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Wandrei, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, includes a foreword by Derleth, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Owner's name, very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-33 in this important series, 20 horror stories by Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Wandrei, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, includes a foreword by Derleth, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Lee Brown Coye (illustrator). 1st Edition. Jacket is split at spine, however, the Brodart does nicely to keep it presentable. Cthulthu bookplate. Scarce in any sort of dust jacket.

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-x [1-2] 3-374, illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing with "FR" monogram on copyright page. A presentation copy with signed inscription by M. P. Shiel on the front free endpaper: "Harvey Gocher / from M. P. Shiel / Nov 1. '44." The first appearance in America of "Shiel's "The House of Sounds," first collected in Shiel's THE PALE APE AND OTHER PULSES (1911). "The House of Sounds," a revised version of "Vaila," which H. P. Lovecraft termed "Shiel's undoubted masterpiece . This story, in its final form, deserves a place among the foremost things of its kind." The first anthology edited by Derleth, published in September 1944, collecting twenty stories by M. P. Shiel, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and others, with illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, and foreword and notes by Derleth. "August Derleth, novelist, poet, pulp-writer and publisher, knows supernatural fiction as well as Ellery Queen knows detective stories. He knows, too, that anthologies are read by anthology readers, and has wisely designed a postgraduate course of reading -- taking for granted that you know the established classics and introducing you instead to such forgotten masterpieces as M. P. Shiel's magnificent 'The House of Sounds' (never before published in this country), or Alfred Noyes' haunting 'Midnight Express,' plus a thorough representation of the great 'Weird Tales' school founded by H. P. Lovecraft." - Anthony Boucher, San Francisco Chronicle. "Readers to whom the name M. P. Shiel is a password to a delirious and astounding world will only need to be told that SLEEP NO MORE contains a fine Shiel of good vintage. 'The House of Sounds,' which Mr. Derleth has winnowed out of England, where it has lain for fifty years, is a wild and gorgeous a tale as 'Purple Cloud' devotees could hanker for. August Derleth, who tirelessly gathers horrors for readers who have by this time certainly become connoisseurs, has done a careful job with SLEEP NO MORE, and if you read the book straight through and end with 'The Rats in the Wall,' by old master H. P. Lovecraft, the potion may work and you may sure enough never sleep again." - Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 525. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-260. Cloth sunned at edges, a very good copy in the badly chipped remains of the dust jacket worn at edges, flaps mostly separated from front and spine panels along folds, and missing the spine panel. A book rarely found signed by Shiel. (#164357). Signed.