ARKHAM HOUSE from Terence McVicker, Rare Books

The first of the Arkham House volumes by/about HPL with "collections of lesser pieces," Fragments written by HPL, essays, revisions, a few very early tales; and personal anecdotes, poems and articles by contributors dealing with the author's writings and personality. Numerous good but small photos of HPL and pother Weird Tales writers, Robert E. Howard-looking older than his thirty… Read more about this item

Fourteen tales selected by the author just a few months before his death in 1961. Additionally is a heartfelt and self-revelatory memoir by E. Hoffmann Price of his visits to Smith, and later to Carol Smith, after Clark's death. An as new, unread copy in d.j. You, be the first to open this book!

Twenty-two tales utilyzing elements of HPL's Cthulhu Mythos. An updating of the anthology first published in 1969, dropping four stories, the August Derleth introduction, the biographical notes on each author, at the end, and adding the following six tales: "The Terror from the Depths," by Fritz Leiber, "Rising With Surtsey," by Brian Lumley, "My Boat," by Joanna Russ,… Read more about this item

Sauk City,: Arkham House,, 1962.. [First Edition].. H.P. Lovecraft's imagination activated visions in both his sub-conscious and unconscious mind, taking the form of dreams, which inspired some of his most colorful tales. These "dream"tales are reproduced in this volume, along with letters to his closest friends to whom herelated these dreams. Some fingerprints to cloth; slight… Read more about this item

Sauk City,: Arkham House, 1950. [First Edition]. A collection of forty-seven macabre themed poems, originally published in various journals and magazines, including Weird Tales, Wings, The Arkham Sampler, and others. One of the included poems, 'The Ballad of the Jabberwock' won the Stephen Vincent Benet award in 1946. Werewolves, Dragons, Witches, Kelpies, Fauns, Centaurs, are only a smattering… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1973. [First Edition}. Eighteen stories from the '60-s-70's, an accompanying volume to NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM, his first Arkham House book. This being one of the "Author's Edition," created by Brennan, signed, and limited to numbered 100 copies. Fine in d.j.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944. [First Edition]. Fourteen tales comprise this first collection of Whitehead tales published by Arkham House. A wartime publication of even less than usual from Arkham House, at [1559 copies] this is a fairly elusive title. The binding is a dark blue cloth which Arkham House used before they settled on the Holliston… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Arkham House, 2003. First Edition. Two hundred-seven-six letters are referenced, from the year 1911, when CAS was eighteen, until just a few weeks before his death in 1961. Smith's letters are in no way as compelling, absorbing, or entertaining as Lovecraft's, as Smith, in addition to working hard manual labor, writing his fictions, painting, and… Read more about this item

Sauk City,: Arkham house,, 1966.. [First Edition]. Sixteen tales, mostly from WEIRD TALES. Only 1952 copies of this title printed. Two bottom corners just nubbed, else a fine, fresh copy in Lee Brown Coye, d.j.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1948. [First edition]. A twice-signed, presentation copy, the year of the book's publication, inscribed, and corrected, with nine corrections in the author's hand. The inscription to his friend Don Carter, reads, "For Don, the night after moving into the new home, sans Katzenjammer, Dec. 4th, 1948. Madam Mad No Whiskey, Dog Gone Madam Mad.… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1971. [First edition]. Submitted to Arkham House in 1949, SELECTED POEMS was a career-spanning selection by Smith himself, with many early poems revised or rewritten, including his epic THE HASHISH-EATER which is here presented in its final version (personally, I prefer it's first version as presented in EBONY & CRYSTAL, in 1922). Smith considered… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1964. [First Edition]. Some of Smith's most beautiful writing is found within these fifty pages of worded jewelry. The virtuosity of his command of language is on full display". . . For traffic in the realms of mystery and wonder, in the marts of scarce-imaginable cities and metropoli a million leagues away, on the… Read more about this item