LIFE EVERLASTING.
Newark, New Jersey: The Avalon Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. This copy number 9. Associational copy, warmly inscribed and signed by Keller under the author's photograph frontispiece to Robert A. (Bob) Madle, noted fan, dealer and a founder of First Fandom. Madle would publish Keller's book THE SOLITARY HUNTER AND THE ABYSS in the next year. The only book published by The Avalon Company. The edition totaled approximately 1000 copies of which 300 were later destroyed by water while in storage. Collects the short novel "Life Everlasting" and eleven short stories, most first published in the pulps, including WEIRD TALES, during the 1930s. Includes a 25-page "Introduction" by Sam Moskowitz. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-586. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-113. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 935. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 571]. Additionally laid in to this volume are a order blank and envelope, a scarce promotional publisher's flyer and twelve page author bibliography. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild vertical crease to left front panel. (35883). Item #35883
Price: $650.00