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THE ARKHAM SAMPLER. Winter 1948 - Autumn 1948 (volume 1, number 1-volume 1, number 4).
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948(volume 1, number 1-volume 1, number 4). Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. The first four of eight issues of this short lived, but important periodical. The issues in fiction, essays, criticism, memoirs and book reviews. Included authors from this set are H. Russell Wakefield, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Sephen Grendon, Lord Dunsany, Robert Bloch and others.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER. Winter 1948 - Autumn 1948 (volume 1, number 1-volume 1, number 4). [Bound set].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948. Octavo, cloth. Privately bound set of the first four issues of this important magazine from Arkham House. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt and many others, the magazine published essays, criticism, memoirs and book reviews.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER. Winter 1948 - Autumn 1949 (volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4).
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948-1949(volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4). Octavo, printed wrappers. Eight numbers, all published. A complete file of this important magazine from Arkham House. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt and many others, the magazine published essays, criticism, memoirs and book reviews.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER. Winter 1948 - Autumn 1949 (volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4).
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948-1949(volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4). Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. All published. A short lived, but important periodical. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt and many others, the magazine published essays, criticism, memoirs and book reviews. One issue was devoted to science fiction. The final issue included an index. All issues were limited to 1200 copies except the "All Science-Fiction Issue" that had a 2000-copy print run.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER. Winter 1948 - Autumn 1949 (volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4): A FACSIMILE EDITION.
Sauk City, WI/[Eugenia, Ontario]: Arkham House/[The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box], [2010]. Octavo, 2 volumes, cloth. New edition. Limited to 250 sets. Two volume facsimile edition collecting The Arkham Sampler, first published in 1948.
DARK OF THE MOON: POEMS OF FANTASY AND THE MACABRE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth to Robert Briney on the front free endpaper. 2634 copies printed. "The single most vital volume in any collection of supernatural verse. Lengthy, rich, and representative; 64 poets, 210 poems ... A milestone volume ... an influence upon the emerging Small Press poets (late 1960s-1980s)." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-15.
DARK OF THE MOON: POEMS OF FANTASY AND THE MACABRE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Dark of the Moon is the first Arkham collection of macabre poetry. 65 poets are represented in this volume, from William Blake, Robert Burns and Goethe to H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Frank Belknap Long.
DARK THINGS.
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3051 copies printed. Original anthology with twenty-four stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Basil Copper, Robert E. Howard, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-256.
THE NIGHT SIDE: MASTERPIECES OF THE STRANGE & TERRIBLE ...
New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1947]. Octavo, illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, cloth. First edition, first printing with "R" monogram on copyright page. Signed inscription by Derleth on the front free endpaper: "For Robert E. Briney / one of my better anthologies / Cordially, / August Derleth". Collects twenty-three stories by H. P. Lovecraft, John Metcalfe, Arthur Machen, Robert Bloch, Margery Lawrence, Ray Bradbury and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 527. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-257.
NIGHT'S YAWNING PEAL: A GHOSTLY COMPANY.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House: Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by August Derleth, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Carl Jacobi, H. Russell Wakefield, Robert Bloch, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. "The Churchyard Yew" attributed to J. Sheridan Le Fanu was actually written by Derleth. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 529. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-258.
OVER THE EDGE.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, jacket art by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. 2520 copies printed. Signed by Derleth on the front free endpaper. Collection of 18 unpublished stories. Includes William Hope Hodgson, H.R. Wakefield, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Cambell and others.
OVER THE EDGE.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, jacket art by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. Collection of 18 unpublished stories. Includes William Hope Hodgson, H. R. Wakefield, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Cambell and others.
OVER THE EDGE.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, jacket art by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. Collection of 18 unpublished stories. Includes William Hope Hodgson, H. R. Wakefield, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Cambell and others.
TRAVELLERS BY NIGHT.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of horror stories, includes work by Robert Aickman, J. Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Margery Lawrence, H.P. Lovecraft (and August Derleth, uncredited) and nine others, all previously unpublished.
DARK MIND, DARK HEART.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2493 copies printed. Original anthology with seventeen stories by Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. The Campbell story is his first published, when he was just 16 years old. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-347. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-255.