Reference
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.
THE DARK PAGE: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR [1940-1949].
[New Castle, DE]: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed and dated on the title page by Mr. Johnson. This oversize reference book links the noir films with their source material. Magnificent production, capsule details of the book and film on one page and the facing page is a full image of the book. First of a projected three volumes.
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.
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.
FEAST OF FEAR: CONVERSATIONS WITH STEPHEN KING.
San Rafael, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies of which this is one of 550 numbered copies. Collects forty-seven interviews with King. A companion volume to BARE BONES (1988).
STARMONT READER'S GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING.
Mercer, WA: Starmont House, 1982. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
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.
A SPECTRUM OF FANTASY: THE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY OF A COLLECTION OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE.
[London]: Ferret, [1980]. Large octavo, boards. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. This private library catalogue is an essential source for information on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century science fiction and fantasy literature, especially British publications. Approximately 3100 books are described with full bibliographical particulars, including identification "points" for Locke's personal copies plus other editions, printings, issues and states where relevant. Locke provides notes indicating thematic content of each title, a valuable feature for collectors of "forgotten fantasy" as his collection includes many of uncommon and/or obscure early works not recorded elsewhere in such detail. Thematic emphasis of the collection is interplanetary fiction to 1914, future war fiction, lost race fiction, utopian literature, and supernatural fiction (the latter of special interest as Locke identifies fantasy tales published in single author collections of mixed stories). A major reference tool for collectors and researchers interested in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fantastic fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-4. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 181.
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.
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.
H. P. LOVECRAFT HIS LIFE, HIS WORK.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, 1979. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Biographical essay by Faig and a chronology of Lovecraft's life.
H.P.L.: MEMOIRS, CRITIQUES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
North Tonawanda, New York: SSR Publications, 1955. Wrappers. First edition. 1/200 copies. The majority of this material in this volume was issued simultaneously as Volumes VI & VII of the LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY. Additions include Lin Carter's essay "HPL: THE HISTORY" & the full version of the introduction "THE RESEARCH OF A BIBLIO." Joshi III-C-27. "A landmark in Lovecraft bibliography..." "The foundation for all subsequent work in the field." - Joshi III-B-35.
MIRAGE ON LOVECRAFT: A LITERARY VIEW.
Baltimore, MD: Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings: Publishers, 1965. Wrappers. First edition. One of approximately 200 copies printed. Examination of Lovecraft, his views on fantastic literature and his literary style. Contributions by Lovecraft, August Derleth, David Keller and others.
"SUNSET TERRACE IMAGERY IN LOVECRAFT" AND OTHER ESSAYS.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition.
THE PARENTS OF HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Essay written for the centennial of Lovecraft's birth.
SELECTED PAPERS ON LOVECRAFT.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1989]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Collects five essays by Joshi first printed in various issues of Crypt of Cthulhu, several expanded, all revised.