Fantasy
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. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-95. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 853.
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. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-95. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 853.
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. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-95. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 853.
SON OF THE WHITE WOLF.
[West Linn, OR]: Published by FAX, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Marcus Boas, pictorial cloth. First edition. Three more Oriental tales featuring Irish-American and Texan adventurer Francis Xavier Gordon. The first volume of stories was THE LOST VALLEY ISKANDER.
SON OF THE WHITE WOLF.
[West Linn, OR]: Published by FAX, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Marcus Boas, pictorial cloth. First edition. Three more Oriental tales featuring Irish-American and Texan adventurer Francis Xavier Gordon. The first volume of stories was THE LOST VALLEY ISKANDER.
THE SOWERS OF THE THUNDER.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1973. Octavo, illustrations by Roy Krenkel, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription on the half title page by artist Roy Krenkel to Robert Briney. Adventure/fantasy stories set in the Far East, first published in pulp magazines The Magic Carpet Magazine and Oriental Stories.
THE SOWERS OF THE THUNDER.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1973. Octavo, illustrations by Roy Krenkel, cloth. First edition. Adventure/fantasy stories set in the Far East, first published in the pulp magazines The Magic Carpet Magazine and Oriental Stories.
THE SOWERS OF THE THUNDER.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1973. Octavo, illustrations by Roy Krenkel, cloth. First edition. Adventure/fantasy stories set in the Far East, first published in the pulp magazines The Magic Carpet Magazine and Oriental Stories.
THE SWORD OF CONAN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, jacket art by David Kyle, cloth. First edition. The second Gnome Conan. Collects "The People of the Black Circle," "The Slithering Shadow," "The Pool of the Black One" and "Red Nails," all first published in WEIRD TALES in 1933, 1934 and 1936.
THE SWORD OF CONAN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, jacket art by David Kyle, cloth. First edition. The second Gnome Conan. Collects "The People of the Black Circle," "The Slithering Shadow," "The Pool of the Black One" and "Red Nails," all first published in WEIRD TALES in 1933, 1934 and 1936.
THE SWORD OF CONAN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, jacket art by David Kyle, cloth. First edition. The second Gnome Conan. Collects "The People of the Black Circle," "The Slithering Shadow," "The Pool of the Black One" and "Red Nails," all first published in WEIRD TALES in 1933, 1934 and 1936.
TIGERS OF THE SEA.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Edited by Richard L. Tierney. Illustrations by Tim Kirk. Collects four Cormac Mac Art stories.
TIGERS OF THE SEA.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1974. Octavo, illustrations by Tim Kirk, cloth. First edition. Collects four Cormac Mac Art stories. Edited by Richard L. Tierney.
RED BLADES OF BLACK CATHAY.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1971. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three short stories, plus a 3-page introduction, "How the Stories Came to Be," by Tevis Clyde Smith. "Red Blades of Black Cathay" was first published in ORIENTAL STORIES, February-March 1931. The two other pieces collected here, "Diogenes of Today" and "Eighttoes Makes a Play," are first published here.
THE RETURN OF CONAN.
NY: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, 1957. Octavo, jacket art by Wallace Wood, red boards lettered in black. First edition. Seventh and last Gnome Press Conan. Novel based on Howard's Conan stories written by Nyberg with the collaboration of de Camp.
THE RETURN OF CONAN.
NY: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, 1957. Octavo, jacket art by Wallace Wood, red boards lettered in black. First edition. Seventh and last Gnome Press Conan. Novel based on Howard's Conan stories written by Nyberg with the collaboration of de Camp.
THE RETURN OF CONAN.
NY: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, 1957. Octavo, jacket art by Wallace Wood, red boards lettered in black. First edition. Seventh and last Gnome Press Conan. Novel based on Howard's Conan stories written by Nyberg with the collaboration of de Camp.
THE RETURN OF CONAN.
NY: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, 1957. Octavo, jacket art by Wallace Wood, red boards lettered in black. First edition. Seventh and last Gnome Press Conan. Novel based on Howard's Conan stories written by Nyberg with the collaboration of de Camp.
BICENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO ROBERT E. HOWARD.
Yorba Linda, CA: George T. Hamilton, 1976. Octavo, jacket art by Stephen Fabian, wrappers. First edition. Includes several short article, an interview with Stephen Fabian, copies of letters to R.E.H., and a Howard short, "The Return of the Sorcerer."
ELEMENT 79.
[New York]: The New American Library, [1967]. First U. S. edition. Collects fifteen stories. "SF and fantasy stories, mostly fantastic and mainly comic in tone, by this leading writer of hard, scientific sf. We see him here in a breezy mood." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 117.
TYPEWRITER IN THE SKY [and] FEAR.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Two classic short novels first published in UNKNOWN in 1940. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-185. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-97. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 870. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 57. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 761-65.
BRIDGE OF BIRDS: A NOVEL OF AN ANCIENT CHINA THAT NEVER WAS.
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. The first Master Li novel. Winner of the 1985 World Fantasy Award for best novel (tied with Robert Holdstock's MYTHAGO WOOD). "A first-rate, innovative fantasy adventure..." Barron: Fantasy Literature 4A-142. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-185.
EIGHT SKILLED GENTLEMEN: A MASTER LI NOVEL.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1991]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. Simultaneous publication with the hardcover edition. The third Master Li book.
THE STORY OF THE STONE ...
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Doubleday, [1988]. Octavo, blue wrappers printed in black. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. Second Master Li novel, sequel to BRIDGE OF BIRDS (1984). Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-185.
THE STORY OF THE STONE.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Doubleday, [1988]. First edition. Second volume to feature Master Li, sequel to BRIDGE OF BIRDS.