Reference
SELECTED LETTERS 1923-1930 and SELECTED LETTERS 1931-1936. Edited by Glenn Lord with Rusty Burke and S. T. Joshi. [Two volumes].
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1989 & 1991]. Octavo, two volumes, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First editions. Collects letters to Tevis Clyde Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and others.
SELECTED LETTERS 1923-1930 and SELECTED LETTERS 1931-1936. Edited by Glenn Lord with Rusty Burke and S. T. Joshi. [Two volumes].
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1989 & 1991]. Octavo, two volumes, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Collects letters to Tevis Clyde Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and others.
DARK VALLEY DESTINY: THE LIFE OF ROBERT E. HOWARD.
[New York]: Bluejay Books Inc., [1983]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-402 [403-406: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], cloth. First edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 8-34.
THE MISCAST BARBARIAN: A BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT E. HOWARD (1906-1936).
Saddle River, NJ: Gerry de la Ree, 1975. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Of 900 copies this is one of 770 paperbound.
THE LAST CELT: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT ERVIN HOWARD.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1976. Large octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-416, illustrations, facsimilies, cloth. First edition. To date the definitive reference tool for the study of Howard and his writings. The work is divided into four sections: autobiography (collecting several pieces written over a lapse of years); biography (five essays by H. P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price and others); bibliography (listing books, contributions to books and periodicals, index to verse, fiction, articles and letters, unpublished fiction and verse, translations, etc.); and miscellanea (texts of unpublished material, facsimiles of letters, a fanzine, map, etc.).
THE CONAN GRIMOIRE.
Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1972. Octavo, jacket illustration by Berni Wrightons, illustrations by Roy G. Krenkel, George Barr, Tim Kirk and others, cloth. First edition. 1500 copies printed. Essays and articles by Howard, Leiber, de Camp, Poul Anderson and others on heroic fantasy with emphasis on the writings of Robert E. Howard.
THE CONAN SWORDBOOK: 27 EXAMINATIONS OF HEROIC FICTION...
Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1969. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Gray Morrow and others, cloth. First edition. 1500 copies printed. Essays and articles by Howard, Leiber, de Camp, Poul Anderson and others on heroic fantasy with emphasis on the writings of Robert E. Howard.
DARK VALLEY DESTINY: THE LIFE OF ROBERT E. HOWARD.
[New York]: Bluejay Books, Inc., [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the De Camps. Biography of Robert E. Howard.
DARK VALLEY DESTINY: THE LIFE OF ROBERT E. HOWARD.
[New York]: Bluejay Books, Inc., [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the De Camps. Biography of Robert E. Howard.
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."
ARTHUR RACKHAM: HIS LIFE AND WORK.
New York: Scribners, 1975. Octavo, Hardcover. Reprint. Contains a revised checklist from the previous publication in 1960. Also reprinted in 1973. Contains many tipped in color reproductions.
LOST IN THE RENTHARPIAN HILLS: SPANNING THE DECADES WITH CARL JACOBI...
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, [1985]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Biography with two appendices, the first an extensive bibliography (pages 76-119), the second facsimile reproductions of fifteen letters from August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and others. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-34. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 354.
SIXTY YEARS OF ARKHAM HOUSE: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3500 copies printed.
MURDER MUST APPETIZE.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1981. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Non fiction on early 20th century British detective fiction.
FEAR ITSELF: THE HORROR FICTION OF STEPHEN KING ...
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1982. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-255 [256: colophon], cloth. First edition, trade issue. Foreword by King, introduction by Peter Straub, afterword by George Romero, nine essays by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Fritz Leiber, Charles L. Grant and others, plus a bibliographical checklist. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-86. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-43.
KINGDOM OF FEAR: THE WORLD OF STEPHEN KING.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1986. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-267 [268-272: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], cloth. First edition. A collection of eighteen essays by King, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, Michael McDowell, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-87. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-44.
DISCOVERING STEPHEN KING.
Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 1985. Wrappers. First edition.
STEPHEN KING GOES TO HOLLYWOOD.
New York and Scarborough, Ont. A Plume Book / New American Library, [1987]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First paperback edition. Signed on the title page by Tim Underwood.
STARMONT READER'S GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING.
Mercer, WA: Starmont House, 1982. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
ON WRITING...A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT.
[New York]: Scribner, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A biographical work.
THE DEAN KOONTZ COMPANION.
London: Headline, 1994. Octavo, boards. First British and First hardcover edition. Material by and about Dean Koontz and his writing. Includes a lenghty interview, information about film and television work, reprints his first published short story, etc.
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION IDEAS & DREAMS.
London, New York, Sydney, Toronto: Hamlyn, [1977]. Large octavo, numerous illustrations, color and black and white, boards. First edition. Large oversize volume which is a companion book to the author's A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION [1976]. Overview of the science fiction genre, by the one of the co-founders of Gnome Press. The strength of the book is in the profuse illustrations. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 9-50.
FROM ELFLAND TO POUGHKEEPSIE.
Portland, OR: Pendragon Press, 1973. Wrappers. First edition. Paperback original, printed wrappers. Chapbook format. Of 776 copies this is 1/100 signed and numbered copies. Text of speech given by the author at the second annual Science Fiction Writers' Workshop at the University of Washington in the summer of 1972.
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, 1985]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Autobiographical sketch by Long with afterword by Peter Cannon.
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.