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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, 1985]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Autobiographical sketch by Long with afterword by Peter Cannon.
THE EARLY LONG.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Long to Joseph Wrzos. Collects seventeen stories first published between 1924 and 1944. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-264 and (1995) 3-117. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1034. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-152].
ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1995]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Prints three previously uncollected stories from Weird Tales (1928, 1939, 1944).
THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. Octavo, illustration by Richard Taylor, cloth. First edition. This copy with the copyright page blank without a cancel sticker affixed. Short Cthulhu Mythos novel first printed in WEIRD TALES in 1931. [Reference: Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-153. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1035. Winter list, p. 270].
THE HOUNDS OF THE TINDALOS.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket illustration by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. The author's first book of fiction. Twenty-one stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES, UNKNOWN WORLDS and other pulps between 1924 and 1944. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-131. Bleiler: The Guide To Supernatural Fiction #1034.
THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2602 copies printed. Signed on the front free endpaper by Long. The author's first book of fiction. Twenty-one stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES, UNKNOWN WORLDS and other pulps between 1924 and 1944. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-131. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1034. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-154].
IN MAYAN SPLENDOR.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Poetry. [Reference: Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-34].
ON READING ARTHUR MACHEN: A SONNET...
Pengrove: The Dog and Duck Press, 1949. Booklet; 5 3/4" x 7 3/4", pp. [1-8], printed self wrappers, bound with string. First edition. Limited to twenty copies privately printed. A one page sonnet.
THE RIM OF THE UNKNOWN.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Long to Dick (Richard) Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society. Collects twenty-three stories first published in the pulps between 1927 and 1956, most from science fiction magazines of the 1950s. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-677. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-156].
THE RIM OF THE UNKNOWN.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3650 copies printed. Inscribed and signed by Long to Bob Madle, noted fan and founder of first fandom. Collects twenty-three stories first published in the pulps between 1927 and 1956, most from science fiction magazines of the 1950s. 3650 copies printed. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-677. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-156].
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi-xiv [1-2] 3-237 [238: limitation statement], cloth. First edition. 4991 copies printed. Very personal memoir by a close friend and member of the original Lovecraft circle. "Of all Lovecraft's chroniclers, the one who probably knew him best was Frank Belknap Long. Long's affectionate 'portrait of HPL' includes a wealth of anecdotal material and reconstructed conversations with Lovecraft, but it makes no pretense at formal biography." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-63. [Reference: Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-42].
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi-xiv [1-2] 3-237 [238: limitation statement], cloth. First edition. 4991 copies printed. Very personal memoir by a close friend and member of the original Lovecraft circle. "Of all Lovecraft's chroniclers, the one who probably knew him best was Frank Belknap Long. Long's affectionate 'portrait of HPL' includes a wealth of anecdotal material and reconstructed conversations with Lovecraft, but it makes no pretense at formal biography." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-63. [Reference: Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-42].
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi-xiv [1-2] 3-237 [238: limitation statement], cloth. First edition. Very personal memoir by a close friend and member of the original Lovecraft circle. "Of all Lovecraft's chroniclers, the one who probably knew him best was Frank Belknap Long. Long's affectionate 'portrait of HPL' includes a wealth of anecdotal material and reconstructed conversations with Lovecraft, but it makes no pretense at formal biography." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-63. 4991 copies printed. [Reference: Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-42].