SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, jacket art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. This posthumous 475-page memorial collection is Howard's first book published in the United States. It includes a short novel and twenty-one stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES, some featuring Conan, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn and King Kull, as well as others that do not belong to his various series, his article on Conan's world, "The Hyborian Age," his poem, "Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die," and Howard memoirs by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price. [Reference: Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-95. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 853]. Tiny nick to lower front edge, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with light wear to the corner tips and spine ends, two small closed tears to the folds at the base of the spine panel with some old tape residue to the verso. (27053). Item #27053
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