Who Knocks by August Derleth (15 results)

Lee Brown Coye (illustrator). First edition with the Rinehart Colophon on the copyright page. Bound in light green cloth with green decoration and lettering. A Very Good copy. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Mild dusting to the spine. Mild toning to the pages. Stories by Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Theodore Sturgeon, Seabury Quinn, and others. Illustrated by Lee Brown Coye. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lee Brown Coye (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is sound, square, and tight and in Vg condition. Average paper tanning as is typical for this title. Not ex library prev owner was Hugh Dempsey, longtime SF and Fantasy fan, and this book bears his signature on FFE. Jacket has numerous flaws, but still looks ok in plastic. (price clipped, spine panel ends chipped, starting to split at front to spine panel. Book is true Rinehart 1st with Colophon. Each story illustrated by Lee Brown Coye, who also did the Jacket art.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. From the library of Stanley Wiater. First thus; an anthology edited by Derleth, collecting previously-published stories by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Theodore Sturgeon, Algernon Blackwood, and others. Grey cloth with green titling and decoration, with staining along top and bottom edges and to spine, bumped to spine ends. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket in poor condition, with a full vertical split at front hinge and the rear hinge very delicate, chipping at spine ends and fore-edge corners, tanned, scratched, lightly foxed. DJ is held in place by fully removable Mylar protector. Pen marking transferred from FFEP to DJ front inner flap; DJ cover price 2.50 at front inner flap. Wiater's bookplate at FFEP, and multiple penned prior owner's names. Interior else clean, pages tanned, text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Wear commensurate with age and use. Former owner's nameplate pasted onto front inside board, otherwise clean and unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG+ to Near Fine. Mild edgewear, light creasing to spine, crease to lower front corner, milod age-toning to page edges, otherwise a very attractive copy, very clean throughout.

Panther Books. London. 1964. First edition. Paperback. Pages browned, covers slightly worn, spine creased otherwise a clean and sound copy.

Lee Brown Coye (illustrator). New York: Rinehart & Company:, 1946. First edition, Hardcover, Good with no dust jacket, 391 pp. Cover artwork by: Lee Brown Coye Well, it's a tough find in any kind of shape. Illustrated by Lee Brown Coye. The story Ray Bradbury has in here is his first published story. Endpapers and paste-dows with modest toning to extremities and gutters and with text block lightly toned at extremities. Upper portion of cover material on front and rear board with light damp stain. All Lee Brown Coye illustrations intact. First edition, Hardcover, Good with no dust jacket,

FIRST EDITION. Half title, illus. Orig. pale blue cloth, blocked & lettered in green; spine faded to brown, a bit dulled. John Beynon Harris's copy with his ink initials 'J.B.H., Aug 1946' on leading f.e.p. A good-plus copy. Copac only records the 1964 London edition. Comprising 20 stories, including 'Running Wolf' by Algernon Blackwood, 'The Sunned House' by H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Intercessor' by May Sinclair, 'The Follower' by Lady Cynthia Asquith, and others. This collection is part of a trio of anthologies for Rinehart compiled by Derleth during and after the Second World War, mainly made up of English authors who hadn't previously had an audience in America. August Derleth, 1909-1971, American anthologist, writer, and publisher, and the first editor to put H. P. Lovecraft in print. Many of the works from this anthology would become titles for his own successful publishing house Arkham Books, which specialised in weird fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. A collection of supernatural stories as only Derleth could muster together. Illustrated throughout with some genuinely spooky images by Lee Brown Coye. This copy is somewhat tanned to the spine with some light marks on the boards. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 76439. For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

Lee Brown Coye (illustrator). New York: Rinehart & Company:, 1946. First edition, Hardcover, Very Good/Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 391 pp. Cover artwork by: Lee Brown Coye A clean and tight copy with very modest spine skew in complete jacket with modest wear to extremities and half-inch closed tear at upper fold of spine panel. First edition, Hardcover, Very Good/Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. grey cloth, no markings,original jacket present.

Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing with "R" monogram on copyright page. Signed on the front free endpaper by Derleth. A collection of twenty stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Algernon Blackwood, A. E. Coppard, August Derleth (writing as "Stephen Grandon"), H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, H. R. Wakefield and others, with "foreword" and brief notes about the contributors by Derleth, and illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 526. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-265. A clean, bright, nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket priced $2.50 on the front flap with wear along top and bottom edges and shallow loss at spine ends. (#173986). Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing with publishers stylized logo on copyright page as required. Bit of tanning to rear fixed endpaper which has a small bookseller ticket, NEAR FINE in VG dust wrapper with some wear along spine folds and at head & heel of spine, the $2.50 publication price in intact. Jacket artwork and numerous illustrations and chapter heads by the incomparable Lee Brown Coye. Photos of any of our books available on request.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, ix, 391 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$2.50." Minor shelf wear. Chipping and rubbing along edges of dust jacket. Toning to interior pages. Signed bookplate by Coy on front free endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown belonging to Joseph Dunninger. Shelved in Case 8. 1386064. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] [1-2] 3-391 [392-396: blank], original pictorial gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green. A collection of twenty stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Algernon Blackwood, A. E. Coppard, August Derleth (writing as "Stephen Grandon"), H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, H. R. Wakefield and others, with "foreword" and brief notes about the contributors by Derleth, and illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 526. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-265]. Former owners bookplate affixed to front paste down, thin tanning along upper edges, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with rubs at the corner tips, spine ends, a few to spine panel and along rear jacket fold (28518) First edition, first printing with "R" monogram on copyright page.