ATMOSPHERE OF HOUSES

by August Derleth

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

N.p., n.d. Octavo, twelve wood engravings by Frank Utpatel, cream wrappers printed in black, stapled. Later edition. A facsimile of The Prairie Press edition published in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1939. Sac Prairie Saga vignettes, essentially a prose poem describing an odyssey through Sac Prairie. The 'atmosphere of houses' is created by the dwellings themselves and by their former occupants, whose revenants still haunt the shadowed rooms Wilson . Brief

• Binding: Wrappers

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