SELECTED POEMS

by August Derleth

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Prairie City, Illinois: The Press of James A. Decker, 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription to literary agent Kirby McCauley on front free endpaper by Derleth who comments that this book contains the best of my poems to 1944. . The selection, introduced by Edgar Lee Masters, were chosen from five collections published by Derleth between 1938 and 1942: HAWK ON THE WIND, MAN TRACK

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