Author: DERLETH, AUGUST
Title: Dwellers in Darkness
Description: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0870540742. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Cover Art; Limited to 4000 copies (actually 3926 according to The Arkham House Companion). This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. Includes the short works: The Ghost Walk, The Ormolu Clock, A Knocking in the Wall, The Lost Path, The Place of Desolation, The Patchwork Quilt, The Island Out of Space, The Night Road, Come to Me, Memoir for Lucas Payne, The Passing of Eric Holm, Man in the Dark, The Song of the Pewee, Ghost Lake, The Element of Chance, and, Fool Proof. "With longtime friend Donald Wandrei, Derleth in 1939 founded Arkham House. Its initial objective was to publish the works of H. P. Lovecraft, with whom Derleth had corresponded since his teenage years. At the same time, he began teaching a course in American Regional Literature at the University of Wisconsin. In 1941, he became literary editor of The Capital Times newspaper in Madison, a post he held until his resignation in 1960. His hobbies included fencing, swimming, chess, philately and comic-strips (Derleth reportedly deployed the funding from his Guggenheim Fellowship to bind his comic book collection, most recently valued in the millions of dollars, rather than to travel abroad as the award intended. ). Derleth's true avocation, however, was hiking the terrain of his native Wisconsin lands, and observing and recording nature with an expert eye. Derleth once wrote of his writing methods, "I write very swiftly, from 750,000 to a million words yearly, very little of it pulp material." " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0870540742 Horror August Derleth Frank Utpatel Arkham House Small Press H. P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos dark fantasy
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Title: Dwellers in Darkness
Description: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0870540742. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Cover Art; Limited to 4000 copies (actually 3926 according to The Arkham House Companion). This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. Includes the short works: The Ghost Walk, The Ormolu Clock, A Knocking in the Wall, The Lost Path, The Place of Desolation, The Patchwork Quilt, The Island Out of Space, The Night Road, Come to Me, Memoir for Lucas Payne, The Passing of Eric Holm, Man in the Dark, The Song of the Pewee, Ghost Lake, The Element of Chance, and, Fool Proof. "With longtime friend Donald Wandrei, Derleth in 1939 founded Arkham House. Its initial objective was to publish the works of H. P. Lovecraft, with whom Derleth had corresponded since his teenage years. At the same time, he began teaching a course in American Regional Literature at the University of Wisconsin. In 1941, he became literary editor of The Capital Times newspaper in Madison, a post he held until his resignation in 1960. His hobbies included fencing, swimming, chess, philately and comic-strips (Derleth reportedly deployed the funding from his Guggenheim Fellowship to bind his comic book collection, most recently valued in the millions of dollars, rather than to travel abroad as the award intended. ). Derleth's true avocation, however, was hiking the terrain of his native Wisconsin lands, and observing and recording nature with an expert eye. Derleth once wrote of his writing methods, "I write very swiftly, from 750,000 to a million words yearly, very little of it pulp material." " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0870540742 Horror August Derleth Frank Utpatel Arkham House Small Press H. P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos dark fantasy
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 38260
- Book number: 38260
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