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Someone in the Dark
by Derleth, August
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 18.5 x 12 cm. 12mo. vi 335pp. Black cloth in dust jacket illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Date of 1941 on title page but this is the off-set second printing photo done 25 years after initial publication, identified with the headband. 300 copies of this edition printed. Front flap is price-clipped, original price of $5.00 present on rear flap. Jacket spine and edges are toned. Nice copy. Currey pg 150. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House #2. Baron, Horror Literature 3-62.
Synopsis
Someone in the Dark is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1941 and was the second book published by Arkham House. 1,115 copies were printed. An additional 300 copies were printed by Hunter Publishing Co. in Winston-Salem, NC in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75060
- Title
- Someone in the Dark
- Author
- Derleth, August
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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