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Tampa, Florida: University of Tampa Press, 2007. Timothy Kennedy. First Edition. Hardcover in green cloth with gilt stamping.
Tampa, Florida: University of Tampa Press, 2007. Timothy Kennedy. First Edition. Hardcover in green cloth with gilt stamping.
London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1881. First English Edition. Hardcover, professionally recased in green cloth with original black and gilt illustrative covers laid on. Buried Alive or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia (also known as The House of the Dead) by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky. First edition and first.....
Sauk City, Wis. Arkham House, 1965. Gary Gore (with Ronald Rich and Virgil Finley). First. Hard Cover in Holliston Black Novelex Cloth with gilt titles. A high-grade collectable five-volume, first edition, first printing, complete set of Arkham House’s Collected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft. Each octavo volume is in its.....
New York: Doubleday, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover in green mesh, satin-finished cloth. A good inscribed copy of Tarkington’s final novel in the Growth Trilogy. This copy is from the regular edition published a year after the limited signed edition. Covers have dulled but are in good condition with only a......
Vermont: Driftwind Press, 1932. Volume 8, No. 5 [November 1933]. Softcover chapbook in gray craft bogus paper. Driftwind Volume 8, No. 5. November 1933. North Montpellier, Vt. First appearance of For Eleanor by Derleth. His Eleanor poems would later be collected and published posthumously in 2001. This volume printed entirely.....
Vermont: Driftwind Press, 1932. Volume 7, No. 1 [July 1932]. Softcover chapbook in yellow paper wraps. Forty pages numbered 1-40 containing the works of 36 authors and poets from Vermont and across the US. This issue includes Coates' first printing of his Pictoral Reminiscenses about him, Paul Cook, and Vrest.....
Vermont: Driftwind Press, 1943. Volume 17 No. 12 [June 1943]. Softcover chapbook in stapled printed pastel wallpaper wraps. Fifty-eight pages numbered [609]-668 containing the first appearance of August Derleth's SAC PRARIE PEOPLE poems Lois Malone, Ted Birkett, and Bart Hinch that James A. Decker would later publish in the 1945.....
Vermont: Driftwind Press, 1940. Volume XV No. 6 [December 1940]. Softcover chapbook in stapled Florentine Sidewall No. 1022 wallpaper wraps. Thirty-two pages numbered [143]-175 and saddle stapled in delightful softcover wrappers of Florentine Sidewall No. 1022 wallpaper. Contributors include Ainsworth, Lillian, Literery Herisons Alden, Jane, Winter Elm Brown, Lorimer H......
London: Spilsbury, 1798-1800. First Edition. Three quarter brown calf with speckled overlaid papers with gilt titles and decoration. It is because history is typically told by the winner that the writings of Mallet Du Pan are of such importance. He was a staunch royalist and wrote against the revolution in.....
New York, NY: Beagle Books, 1971. Trade Paperback. The scarce 1971 boxed set of Beagle Books’ Arkham Edition of H. P. Lovecraft. This set includes the Beagle Boxer Horror Collection second editions of The Tomb, At the Mountains of Madness, The Lurking Fear, and The Lurker at the Threshold as.....
Reading, PA: The Galleon, 1935. 1st. Softcover. This 56-page journal includes the first printing of "The Quest of Iranon" by H. P. Lovecraft as well as "At Dusk the Sun," a poem by August Derleth. Lovecraft once considered Iranon to be one of his best creations. Writing to Rheinhart Kliener.....
London: Printed for A. Millar; J & R Tonson, H. Lintont & C. Bathurst, 1757. Charles I. Grignion. English Elzevir. 18mo in brown mottled calf with gilt stamping. The 18mo English Elzevir edition published in London by several third-generation bookmen (Andrew Millar, Jacob Tonson the Younger and Richard Tonson, Henry.....
The National Amateur, 1922. Ridgefield Park, N.J. The National Amateur. Vol. XLIV, No. 3. January 1922. Reprinting of Lovecraft’s The Street. First printed in The Wolverine, the story was inspired by the 1919 Boston Police strike. This brief story shows, as described by S. T. Joshi, “how awful Lovecraft can.....
New York: Astounding Stories, 1936. Howard Brown. First. Softcover. Astounding Stories (June 1936). First appearance of Lovecraft’s The Shadow out of Time and his first and last pulp cover illustrated by Howard Brown. Written over the course of three months from November 1934-February 1935, Shadow would bring to a close.....
New York: Astounding Stories, 1936. Howard Brown. First Appearance. Softcover. New York: Street and Smith, 1936. First appearance of At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft serialized in three parts (Feb, Mar, and Apr) in Astounding Stories with illustrations by Howard Brown. Initially praised by Lovecraft, the liberties.....
London: MacMillan and Co., 1887. First Edition. 2nd State. First edition of the novel the author would proclaim, near the end of his life, to be his favorite creation amongst his Wessex novels. Intended to follow Far From the Madding Crown, the woodland novel he began in 1874 did not.....