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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth with turquoise lettering and gold gilt rules, 511 pages. Sac Prairie Saga novel. Good copy with scattered light colored staining/spotting to the cloth, and page edge foxing heaviest to the top edge, in chipped-spine head front corner and lower right corner of the front panel, edgeworn jacket with light to moderate staining to the front panel. See photos bx200

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 511pp. Scribner A on the copyright page. Ciculation card on the flyleaf, libraryt stamp on title page. Clean text. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Mylar is taped onto the end paper. MC . Very Good. Hardcover. First American Book Club Edition.. 1945.

Good+ in Poor dust jacket; Hardcover; Charles Scribner's Sons; 1945. Black cloth, green lettering, 4 line author inscription on fep, foxing inside front/back cover, 1/2" white spot top of spine, G+, Dust jacket has 1 1/2" x 3" piece missing tope of spine and front thus cutting off the letters in the word "the" and the "S" in shield in title, also missing 1/2" x 1" piece lower bottom of spine .

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First printing of this romance of "a banker's son who falls in love with a girl from the "wrong side of the tracks"", which Derleth regarded as one of his ten best works. First edition (first printing) with Scribners' A on copyright page, but in the later jacket - Derleth bought remaindered titles from Scribner and warehoused them, printing new jackets for a couple of titles in, probably, the 1960s. Hardcover, full black cloth, green titling, gilt stripes. Light wear to book, minor stains; jacket lightly rubbed with a black mark at the base of the spine. Text clean; [8], 511 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¾" by 8".

Scribiner's. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Hardcover; No marks or writing, clean . tight binding; DJ not price clipped; blk cloth with grn lettering, minor . bump at spine edge, no sun fading; DJ has sm edge bumps at the spine edge, . in protective sleeve; NOT ex-library;. 1945. First Edition,. Hardcover. The continuing chronicle of the Sac Prairie life in Wisconsin; .

Scribners, 1945. Dustjacket has chips on spine, creasing at edges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/vg/vg+.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Later printing of one of this part of the 'Sac Prairie Saga', involving a young couple making music in Chicago. INSCRIBED on the free endsheet but not personalized by Derleth: "One of my better works - [signature]". Later printing in the year of first publication. Hardcover, full black cloth, green titling, gilt decoration. Light wear to book, name crossed out on free endsheet; jacket shows some edgewear, chipping, some loss at head of spine, price-clipped. Text clean; [8], 511 pages.. Inscribed by the Author. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 5¾" by 8".

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1945. Black paper covered boards have ruled lines on spine in gold. Bump to top right corner. Scribner's A on copyright page. Former owners bookplate and address stamped on front free endpaper. Binding tight as is text block. No markings. Jacket shows price of $3 but has pretty heavy creasing on rear board. Short tear on rear panel near spine with small amount of paper loss. In mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/VG-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author. Dust jacket price-clipped, has a few small tears/chips, edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. No writing in text..

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945., 1945. First edition. 8vo. Original gilt and green stamped black cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates.. F. Hardcover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 511 pages; VG/VG-; spine black and white pictorial, and green with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; some shelf wear and soiling; small chips missing at corners of flap folds; small chip missing at upper edge of jacket front; inch-long closed tear at lower edge of jacket front; crown and tail of jacket spine missing; large chip missing at center of jacket spine; multiple small chips missing at upper edge of jacket back; price uncut '$3.00'; inscribed by Derleth at front free endpaper; pages clean; shelved Case 8. 1356237. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. A small name stamp on the bottom page edge, and a small, very faint date stamp on the title page, else a fine copy in a fine and fresh dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the front panel, and a minuscule nick at the crown. Nicely Inscribed by the author. A lovely copy of this novel in the author's "Sac Prairie Saga" cycle, about a banker who falls in love with a girl from the wrong side of the tracks.