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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.
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 GOBLIN TOWER.
Denver, CO: The New Collector's Group, 1949. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second and revised edition. Limited to 500 copies. Poetry. Due to the somewhat misleading publisher's introduction to this edition, this book is often mis-catalogued as a reprint of the 1935 Dragon-Fly Press edition. In fact, the selection of poems differs; the New Collector's Group edition drops four, "When Chaugner Wakes," "Exotic Quest," "West Indies" and "Martial: The Vacationist" and adds three, "The Prophet," "Prediction" and "Walt Whitman."
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. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-153. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1035. Winter list, p. 270.
THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. Octavo, 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. 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 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. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-131. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1034. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-154.
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. 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. Collects twenty-three stories first published in the pulps between 1927 and 1956, most from science fiction magazines of the 1950s. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-677. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-156.
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, 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. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-42.
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, 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. 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. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-42.
THE CHALLENGE FROM BEYOND.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. New edition. In 1935 Fantasy Magazine asked 5 weird fiction writers and 5 science fiction writers to write two collaborative stories around the title The Challenge From Beyond. Presented here is both versions. (Necronomincon Press previously published this in an illustrated edition in 1978).