CREEP, SHADOW! by Merritt, A - 1934

Sun Dial Press, 1934. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Clean copy, with no writing or names. Binding is slightly pulled, but solid. Cover has light wear to extremities. Clipped fair dust jacket is mylar wrapped - has edge chipping and rubbing, and sign of sticker removal from spine. 1934 Sun Dial Press edition.

Sun Dial Press Book is in Very Good condition lacking a Dust Jacket. Previous owner bookplate on inside front cover, light tanning to pages, previous owner name on first page.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover.

Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo; G/G-; black/blue pictorial spine with ivory text; first edition; dust jacket has moderate rubbing exterior wear; some chips to edges; noticeable foxing to exterior; "Sun Dial Mysteries" sticker to spine; price clipped front flap; mylar wrap; cloth show light exterior wear; lightly sunned spine; lightly rubbed edges; strong boards; text block exterior edges modestly toned; deckled fore edge; mild tone to endpapers; small brown spot to rear endpapers; interior clean; pp 301. 1338808. FP New Rockville Stock.

Garden City: Crime Club. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 301 pages; Very light rubbing and wear to the covers. .

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran / The Crime Club, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Owner's neat name on the front fly, light wear to the boards, near fine or better without dustwrapper.

New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [x], 301pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; bound in dark navy / nearly-black cloth with green lettering and illustration to spine. over green cloth with black lettering and illustration to spine. Green topstain. Jacket restored by prior owner with full backing in archival tissue and color fills / touch-ups along edges and at a few spots down spine and folds; evidence under light of prior shallow chips and tears along edges, occasionally touching now hand-restored text, with some current toning and smudging to surface. Boards lightly shelfworn with some nudging at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Bleiler calls this "a sequel of sorts to Burn Witch Burn!" though more in mood and title echo (the 1935 London / Methuen edition nodded more directly with the title Creep, Shadow, Creep!). First… Read More

Garden City: Crime Club, Inc. Doubleday. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1934. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. To Inscribed By Merritt-"To Bill Keleher With Regards, A. Merritt.; Signed by Author .

Garden City, 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small marginal stain on two pages, but a very good copy. 8vo . O riginal black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in "shadowy" green. First edition. Presentation copy to the dedicatee-who-should-have-been, inscribed by the author in purple ink on the verso of the half-title: "To my dear friend Arthur G. Learned who heartens me with his approval & to whom this book really should have been dedicated. May his Shadows always be swell ones. Affectionately, A Merritt." The book has no printed dedication. 'Creep, Shadow!' is the sequel to Merritt's more famous 'Burn, Witch, Burn!' and deals with witchcraft and horror detection. "Merritt's influence on the science-fiction and fantasy world is less through his storylines, which tended to be unoriginal at best, or through excesses of his style than through his genuine imaginative power in the creation of desirable alternative worlds and realities. He was extremely popular during his life... His [eight… Read More

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. First edition. A near fine copy in a bright attractive near fine dust jacket, touch of shelf wear to spine ends, vertical crease at front panel/spine panel. (10762). Octavo, cloth. "Sequel of a sort to Burn, Witch, Burn! A good mystery thriller, with even some moments of humor." - Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1162.