[Rarebooks] FS: Arkham House Lot. 20 Items.

[Michael John Thompson]

FS, As a Lot. 20 titles, All Arkham House or Arkham House Related material.

As a lot. $225.00 US Postpaid in North America.

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1.  BISHOP, Michael. ONE WINTER IN EDEN. Foreword 
by Thomas M. Disch and Artwork by Andrew Smith. 
Sauk City: Arkham House. [1984]. First Edition, 
First Printing. First edition. Octavo, original 
black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. A fine 
copy in a fine dust wrapper. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Collects twelve short stories including "The 
Quickening," a Nebula Award winner.

2.  BLOCH, Robert. DRAGONS AND NIGHTMARES. Four 
Short Novels. Baltimore: The Mirage Press 1968 
First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, original 
black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 185 
pp., Illustrated. 1,000 hand-numbered copies 
printed. A fine copy bright copy in a nice dust 
jacket, very slightly tanned on the spine panel 
and showing some light rubbing but much less so 
then normal for this title. Quite a nice, 
attractive copy, overall. Near Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Collects four stories: 'A Good Knight's Work', 
'The Eager Dragon', 'Nursemaid to Nightmares' and 'Black Barter'.

3.  Bloch, Robert. THE KING OF TERRORS. Tales of 
Madness and Death. New York: The Mysterious Press 
1977 Second printing. Second printing of the 
first edition. Octavo, original black cloth 
titled in gilt on spine. 202 pp. A fine copy in 
the original pictorial dust jacket which shows 
minor rubbing and a touch of fading. Near Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Collection of 14 tales of horror.

4.  CARTER, Lin. DREAMS FROM R'LYEH. With an 
Introduction by L. Sprague de Camp. Sauk City: 
Arkham House. 1976. First Edition, First 
Printing. First edition, 3,152 copies printed. 
Octavo, original black cloth titled in gold on 
spine panel. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket 
which has the tiniest bit of rubbing near spine 
head. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ A sonnet-cycle of Lovecraftian poetry.

5.  CASE, David. THE THIRD GRAVE. Drawings by 
Stephen E. Fabian. Sauk City: Arkham House 
[1981]. First Edition, First Printing. First 
Edition. Octavo, original black cloth titled in 
gilt on spine panel. 184 pp. Slight spine lean, a 
very good, near fine copy in like dust jacket. 
Near Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ The story of a young Egyptologist, Thomas 
Ashley, who, while on an archeological 
expedition, discovers ancient Egyptian secrets of 
resurrection and immortality. Accompanied by the 
beautiful Arabella Cunningaham, the two are 
menaced by a horror spawned by an ancient curse.

6.  CAVE, Hugh B. BOTTLED IN BLOND. The Peter 
Kane Stories. Minneapolis, MN: Fedogan & Bremer. 
2000. 2000 First edition. Octavo, original cloth, 
dust wrapper. 1,000 copies printed. Reprints the 
Peter Kane hard-boiled detective stories from the 
DIME DETECTIVE pulp magazines of the 1930s & 40s. 
A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.

7.  CAVE, Hugh B. DEATH STALKS THE NIGHT. 
Illustrated by Lee Brown Coye. Edited by Karl 
Edward Wagner. Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer. 
1995. First Edition, First Printing. First 
edition. Octavo, original black cloth titled in 
gold on spine panel. Fine in dust wrapper. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Anthology of horror tales from the pulps, 
orignally intended to be published by Carcosa 
Press as a companion volume to MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS.

8.  CAVE, Hugh B. THE DOOR BELOW. Illustrated by 
Alan M. Clark. Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer. 
1997. First Edition, First Printing. First 
edition. Octavo, original black cloth titled in 
gilt on spine. A fine copy in a fine dust 
wrapper. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Collection of fantasy and horror stories, all 
culled from the early pulp magazines.

9.  EISENSTEIN, PHYLLIS. BORN TO EXILE. 
Illustrations by Stephen E. Fabian. Sauk City: 
Arkham House. 1978. First Edition, First 
Printing. First edition, 4,148 copies printed. 
Octavo, original black cloth titled in gold on 
spine panel. Dust jacket & interior artwork by 
Stephen Fabian. A fine copy in a fine dust 
jacket, just like new; still in the original 
publisher's shrinkwrap. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.

10.  FRYER, Donald S. SONGS AND SONNETS 
ATLANTEAN. Sauk City: Arkham House. 1971. First 
Edition, First Printing. First edition, 2045 
copies printed. Octavo, original black cloth 
titled in gold on spine panel. A fine copy in a 
fine dust jacket. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Poetry collection by the noted Clark Ashton Smith scholar.

11.  KELLER, David H. TALES FROM UNDERWOOD. 
Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman. [1974]. First 
British Edition. First British edition. Octavo, 
original brown cloth titled in gilt on spine. 322 
pp. Evidence of a very small label removed from 
upper corner of front paste-down under the front 
dust jacket flap; a very good clean copy in dust 
jacket. Very Good in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Weird and Fantastic stories, a reprint of the 
1952 edition published by Arkham House.

12.  KESTERTON, David. THE DARKLING. [Sauk 
City]:: Arkham House. 1982. First Edition, First 
Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original black 
cloth titled in gilt on spine. 259 pp., 
frontispiece map by Jason van Hollander. One 
lower corner a touch bumped, a fine copy in dust 
jacket, price corner clipped. Near Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.

13.  KIRK, Russell. THE PRINCESS OF ALL LANDS. 
Sauk City: Arkham House. [1979]. First Edition, 
First Printing. First edition, 4,120 copies 
printed. Octavo, original black cloth titled in 
gold on spine panel. 228 pp. Tiny bumps to 
corners, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Collection of nine ghostly tales.

14.  KRESS, Nancy. THE ALIENS OF EARTH. 
Illustrations by Jane Walker. [Sauk City]: Arkham 
House Publishers, Inc. [1993]. First Edition, 
First Printing. Octavo, original black cloth 
titled in gilt on spine panel. 327 pp., 
illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Collection of 18 sf & fantasy tales.

15.  LONG, Frank Belknap. IN MAYAN SPLENDOR. 
Illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian. Sauk City: 
Arkham House. 1977. First Edition, First 
Printing. First edition, 2,947 copies printed. 
Octavo, original black cloth titled in gold on 
spine panel. 66 pp. Dust jacket and interior 
artwork by Stephen Fabian. A fine copy in a fine 
dust jacket. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Poetry collection, mostly reprinted from A MAN 
FROM GENOA (1926) and THE GOBLIN TOWER (1935), 
but also including Long's memorial sonnet to H.P. 
Lovecraft which originally appeared in WEIRD 
TALES magazine in June, 1938.

16.  LUPOFF, Richard A. LOVECRAFT'S BOOK. 
Compiled by Richard A. Lupoff. [Sauk City]: 
Arkham House Publishers, Inc. 1977 First Edition, 
First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original 
black cloth titled in gilt on spine. 260 pp, 
Illustrated, Index. 3,544 copies printed. A fine 
copy in the original pictorial dust jacket. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Fiction with literary characters. The novel 
concerns an offer made to H. P. Lovecraft by 
fascist sympathizer (& contemporary author) 
George Sylvester Viereck. His offer is to have 
Lovecraft write a political tract in the nature 
of an American Mein Kampf. In return, Viereck 
promises the publication of a volume of Lovecraft's stories.

17.  MYERS, Gary. THE HOUSE OF THE WORM. Sauk 
City: Arkham House. 1975. First Edition, First 
Printing. First edition, 4,144 copies printed. 
Octavo, orginal black cloth titled in gilt on 
spine panel. 77 pp. Dust jacket artwork and 
interior illustrations by Allan Servos. A fine 
copy in a fine dust jacket, just like new and 
still in the original publisher's shrinkwrap. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ The author's first book. A short story 
collection. The stories are a stylistic pastiche 
of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany, and may be 
seen as an expansion of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. 
While presented as a novel of the Cthulhu Mythos, 
it is, in fact, a collection of linked stories.

18.  SMITH, Clark Ashton [Spurious Attribution, 
actually authored by De Lysle Ferree Cass]. AS IT 
IS WRITTEN. Illustrated by R.J. Krupowicz. West 
Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant. 1982. 
First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. 
Octavo, original brown cloth titled in gilt on 
spine panel. 125 pp, 3 full-page black & white 
plates & 3 colour plates, one of which is a 
2-page spread - gorgeous illustrations by 
Krupowicz. 1250 copies printed, all signed by the 
artist on the limitation leaf. A fine copy in 
dust jacket, light tanning to spine panel. Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ "As It Is Written is one of the longest and 
earliest works of fiction from the pen of Clark 
Ashton Smith. This long forgotten Oriental 
fantasy (it may well have been written some years 
earlier) was accepted by the fabled pulp 
magazine, Thrill Book, in 1919... The story of 
how it was rediscovered and rescued - revealed 
here for the first time - after languishing in 
oblivion for almost 60 years is, in itself, an 
exciting and marvelous tale..." - from the jacket 
blurb. All this is fine and dandy, but the book 
was rashly brought into print and it was only 
after its publication that it was discovered to 
have actually been written by De Lysle Ferree 
Cass, - a real person - and not CAS at all.

19.  WANDREI, Howard. THE EERIE MR. MURPHY. The 
Collected Fantasy Tales of Howard Wandrei, Volume 
II. Edited and Introduced by D.H. Olsen. 
Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer. 2003 First 
Edition, First Printing. First edition, 1500 
copies printed. Octavo, original black cloth 
titled in gilt on spine panel. 424 pp., 30 pages 
of black & white art at rear. Small snag to a 
couple of page edges, a near fine copy in like 
dust jacket. Near Fine in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.

20.  WEINBERG, Robert [editor]. FAR BELOW And 
Other Horrors. Edited by Robert E. Weinberg. 
[West Linn, Oregon]: FAX Collector's Editions. 
[1974]. First Edition, First Printing. First 
edition. Large octavo, original black cloth 
titled in red on spine panel. 151 pp. Approx 1000 
copies printed. Dust jacket artwork by Lee Brown 
Coye, pictorial title page by Vincent Napoli. 
Minor browning, a very good copy in dust jacket, 
small tape repair on verso at spine head. Very Good in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
¶ Collection of eleven supernatural fantasy 
tales, all but one culled from the pages of Weird 
Tales magazine. Mostly excellent tales by 'minor' 
authors, but Robert E. Howard and Seabury Quinn are also present.

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