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]. Page edges just a bit tanned, a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with tiny chip at upper spine end professionally mended, and mild soiling to rear panel. (33078). Item #33078
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