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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Ralph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes part one of "The Green Flame" by Eric North (Bernard Cronin), a science fiction thriller set in Australia.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Albert Graef, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Part one of "Jan in India" by Otis Adelbert Kline.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Part two of "Jan in India" by Otis Adelbert Kline. Ficton by Theodore Roscoe, Fred MacIsaac and others.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by H. Bedford Jones ("The Mysterious John Solomon"), George F. Worts, T. S. Stribling, Fred MacIsaac and others.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Part three (finale) of "Jan in India" by Otis Adelbert Kline. Ficton by Erle Stanley Gardner, George Bruce and others.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Theodore Roscoe, H. Bedford Jones (a John Solomon mystery), Fred MacIsaac and others.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1927. Octavo, single issue, cover by C. Clyde Squires, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Features part one of the serial "Seven Footprints to Satan" by A. Merritt.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1927. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Features part four of the serial "Seven Footprints to Satan" by A. Merritt.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1927. Octavo, single issue, cover by Stockton Mulford, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Features part five (conclusion) of the serial "Seven Footprints to Satan" by A. Merritt.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert A. Graef, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Ray Cummings ("Flood," part one), Hulbert Footner, Gordon Young and others.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1933. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by H. Bedford Jones ("Solomon in the Catacombs"), Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster, George F. Worts and others.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by A. Merritt ("The Ship of Ishtar" part 5), Theodore Roscoe, Judson Philips (Judson Pentecost Philips wrote over 100 crime novels many using the pseudonym Hugh Pentecost), and others.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by George Worts, Max Brand and others.
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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover by E. Watson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Theodore Roscoe, Richard Sale, Judson Philips (Judson Pentecost Philips wrote over 100 crime novels many using the pseudonym Hugh Pentecost), and others.
ARIEL: A FANTASY MAGAZINE.
Leawood, Kansas: The Morning Star Press, 1977. Large octavo, single issue, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition. The second of four issues. Profusely illustrated. Includes an the second part of an interview with Frank Frazetta (part one in the first issue), a color section featuring Richard Corben's "Den," "Eggsucker" by Harlan Ellison, a prequel story to "A Boy and His Dog," art by Bruce Jones, Jeff Jones, a Ray Bradbury story "The Burning Man," an essay by Ursula K. LeGuin "Science Fiction Chauvanism," and more. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 109-10.
AN ARKHAM HOUSE ARCHIVE: An important archive of material from the from the files of August Derleth, publisher and editor.
In 1939, a promising Midwestern mainstream novelist and a popular Midwestern writer of pulp fiction co-founded a small press to publish a hardbound book to preserve the writing and perpetuate the memory of their dearly departed friend and mentor, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Arkham House was officially in business when August Derleth and Donald Wandrei signed the George Banta Publishing Company's "Proposal for Printing" THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS by H. P. Lovecraft, dated 25 August 1939. Thus began of one of America's most important and best known twentieth-century small publishers, Arkham House Publishers (named for the fictional Massachusetts city loosely modeled on Salem, Massachusetts, the setting for many of H. P. Lovecraft's stories) which had an enormous impact on the course and development of the horror fiction genre, particularly in the United States. "Arkham House, founded in 1939, played a crucial role in establishing the importance of the WEIRD TALES school of writers -- including Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Henry S. Whitehead, and others -- by preserving their pulp fiction in book form for future readers, scholars and writers. Derleth also issued the first books of their immediate successors in the tradition, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury and Joseph Payne Brennan. As well, he vigorously championed the British weird fiction tradition, presenting works by Sheridan Le Fanu, William Hope Hodgson, Lord Dunsany, and H. Russell Wakefield to the North American audience, in some cases for the first time" (Penguin Encyclopedia). "August Derleth had almost single-handedly kept weird fiction alive with Arkham House, the grandfather of all specialist science fiction and fantasy small presses ... Arkham House was essentially a book publisher, and Derleth was one of the first to develop original anthologies of weird tales, long before they became popular in the science fiction field. Starting with DARK MIND, DARK HEART (1962), Derleth encouraged a new generation of writers while sustaining the old school of WEIRD TALES contributors" (Mike Ashley). The Arkham House Archive contains over 4000 letters and documents related to publications issued by Arkham House, Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee between 1939 and 1971, as well as correspondence and business papers related to Derleth's activities as writer and editor for other publishers, including his editorial work as an anthologist in the 1940s and 1950s, and as a TV scriptwriter in the 1950s. This archive is a highly important collection of letters and documents. The core of the archive is correspondence, often extensive, from several hundred authors whose work Derleth published under his own imprints or in his highly important non-Arkham House anthologies published in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as manuscripts, mostly typewritten (including fair copies and carbons), submitted by Arkham House authors. The business papers include printers' correspondence, quotes and invoices, beginning with the George Banta Company proposal for printing THE OUTSIDER, 25 August 1939 and the invoice for THE OUTSIDER, 21 November 1939. There is significant business correspondence from Derleth's literary agents: G. Ken Chapman, Robert Goldfarb, Otis Kline Associates, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Renault and Le Bayon and others, as well as hundreds of letters pertaining to the sale of reprint rights (including audio and film rights) for literary property by Derleth and others. These business papers largely predate the August William Derleth Papers held by the Wisconsin Historical Society, as "most of the pre-1963 materials were destroyed when this collection was originally processed, so substantially complete records survive only for the years between 1963 and 1970." Additionally, the archive includes book production files for some publications, printer's blocks, fair copy typescripts of literary material by various writers made by Arkham House for book production or reference (like typewritten transcriptions of Lovecraft letters), complete and partial book proofs, and photographs of Arkham House authors.
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Story collection with some supernatural content.
THE EERIE BOOK.
London: J. Shiells & Co., 1898. Tall octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-4] 5-211 [212: colophon] [note: inserted plates are included as part of publisher's pagination], fifteen inserted plates with illustrations by W. B. Macdougall, title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial white buckram, front and spine panels stamped in black, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, first issue. Collects sixteen stories and extracts from longer works by Edgar Allan Poe, Catherine Crowe, Mary Shelley, and others. "The three stories by Mrs. Crowe ... come from her GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS (1858), which is almost impossible to find." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 41. Bleiler (1978), p. 10. Reginald 00490.
NEW TALES OF HORROR BY EMINENT AUTHORS ...
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-15] 16-255 [256] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and free endpaper], true endpapers at rear, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Partially original anthology anonymously edited by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (a.k.a. "John Gawsworth"), collecting thirty crime and supernatural stories, seventeen of which appear here for the first time, by Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, E. H. Visiak, M. P. Shiel, John Gawsworth, Frederick Carter, Hugh MacDiarmid, Nugent Barker, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1230. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 2. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 10639.
CRIMES, CREEPS AND THRILLS: FORTY-FIVE NEW STORIES OF DETECTION, HORROR AND ADVENTURE BY EMINENT MODERN AUTHORS ...
London: E. H. Samuel, n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xv [xvi] 1-560, 30 full-page unattributed black and white illustrations in the text, original light blue cloth, front cover ruled in blind, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Important 560-page partially original anthology collecting forty-five adventure, crime and supernatural stories by E. H. Visiak, Richard Middleton, M. P. Shiel, H. H. Ewers, Frederick Carter, Edgar Jepson, Nugent Barker, and others. Contents include the only appearance in print of Visiak's "The Shadow," a flawed novel "reworking on a symbolic level of concepts in Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship" [Bleiler (1983)]. "Over and above their general high quality ... [Gawsworth's] large anthologies of horror and supernatural Fiction –- ranging from quality ghost stories to mediocre contes cruels –- are notable for the amount of original material they contain, much of this coming from authors of considerable interest, including Oswell Blakeston, Thomas Burke, Frederick Carter, Louis Golding, Edgar Jepson, Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, Eimar O'Duffy, M. P. Shiel and E. H. Visiak –- as well as Gawsworth himself, none of whose short stories have been collected separately. His early stories, like ABOVE THE RIVER (1931) and 'Scylla and Charybdis' (1934) are wistful nature fantasies in the style of Algernon Blackwood, but his later 'collaborations' with Shiel, Visiak and particularly Jepson ('The Shifting Growth' 1936, included in this collection) are more sinister and portentous, shadowing death." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 392. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 452. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 9. Bleiler (1978), p. 80.
ARMY NAVY FLYING STORIES.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolf Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first issue. Focus in air war stories, with a call to arms.Fiction by Norman A. Daniels, Laurence Donovan, Stuart Schimmel, Frank Johnson (Daniels) and A.R. Flagstaff.
FULL SPECTRUM 2.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1989]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting twenty-seven stories by Edward Bryant, Vonda N. McIntyre, David Brin, Mike McQuay, Patricia A. McKillip, Greg Bear, Michael Swanwick, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others.
CATCH THE LIGHTNING.
New York: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1996]. Octavo, illustration by Peter Bollinger, boards. First edition. Second novel in the Skolian Empire series.
PRIMARY INVERSION.
New York: Tor, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Asaro on the title page. The author's first novel. Space opera romance, the first novel of the Skolian Empire series. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
THE GRIM CARETAKER.
London: Strothers Bookshop's Ltd, n.d., [1944]. Octavo, pp. [1-2: front covers] [3] 4-49 [50] [51-52: rear cover] pictorial wrappers. First edition. The second of three paperbacks published in 1944 featuring Lucian Carolus, Professor of Archaeology and scholar of the supernatural, an occult investigator in the vein of Hodgson’s Thomas Carnacki. In this book Carolus investigates a case of demonic possession at an isolated English estate. Highlights include a mysterious manservant with mesmeric powers and a battle with possessed mouse. Good pulp fun of the period. THERE WERE NO ASPER LADIES, the first Carolus adventure involves a case of vampirism and the final Carolus title, UNCANNY ADVENTURES, is a collection of 5 short stories which include werewolves and devil worshippers. Day, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature in Paperbound Books, p. 3. Reginald 00531. Hubin (1994), p. 32. Not in Bleiler.