Colonel Markesan And Less Pleasant People
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1966. Cover by Frank Utpatel. First edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket. ($5.00). Black cloth covers with gilt titles on the spine. Octave. Collects seventeen stories first published in Weird Tales, Strange Tales, and Strange Stories between 1930 and 1947, mostly during the period 1930 to 1939. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 530.
Written by August Derleth and Mark Schorer in collaboration and released in 1966 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,405 copies. The stories were written while the two authors shared a cabin on the Wisconsin River in Sauk City during the summer of 1931. Two of the stories, "Colonel Markesan" and "The Return of Andrew Bentley", were adapted for the Thriller television series.
Fine / Near fine. light soiling to the back cover. Presented in a clear plastic protective cover. Item #549
Price: $150.00