Theft of Sci-Fi/Fantasy Material from L.W. Currey | News

ABAA member L. W. Currey reports that his office was broken into, and a number of boxes and individual items were stolen. The largest group still in boxes and waiting to be processed was a collection of Arkham House books. Those in the Northeast should be aware that this collection is/was in white banker boxes.

Below is a complete list of specific items from the theft from L. W. Currey. If you know the whereabouts or have been offered the book, please contact [email protected].

Thank you all for your vigilance.

1. Asimov, Isaac. EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH: SCIENCE FICTION TALES OF OUR OWN PLANET. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, cloth. $450

First edition. Signed inscription by Asimov to Gerry de la Ree on an adhesive label affixed to the front free endpaper. Collects fifteen stories and two poems. Includes "Franchise," in which "one individual [is] chosen by computer to vote in any given election." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 254. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with 12 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel and a touch of tanning along rear spine fold. A nice copy of a book which is uncommon in this condition. (#142672)

2. Asimov, Isaac. FANTASTIC VOYAGE ... Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. Octavo, cloth. $350

First edition. 1966 Nebula nominee. Filmed in 1966 by Richard Fleischer with Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, and Donald Pleasance. This is a novelization of the screenplay by Harry Kleinerfrom the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-43. Slight spine lean, a nearly fine copy in good or somewhat better dust jacket with wear and creasing along top and bottom edges and rubbing to black background ink. (#138655)

3. Asimov, Isaac. FOUNDATION AND EARTH. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. $100

First edition. "The space travelers from FOUNDATION'S EDGE journey from the sentient world of Gaia to Earth via various ancient planets familiar to readers of Asimov's "Robot" stories. More bloated, talky stuff for readers who are well steeped in the author's earlier works." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 143. Includes a continuation of the eutopia in FOUNDATION'S EDGE and some dystopia. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $16.95 on the front flap. (#147409)

4. Asimov, Isaac. THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. $1000

First edition. Asimov's first collection of short fiction. Collects "The Martian Way," "Youth," a first contact story, "The Deep," an amusing Earth invaded by aliens satire, and "Sucker Bait," all written between 1952 and 1954. "Good traditional SF of the period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-21. Most of the best of his short stories ... were initially assembled in a series of impressive volumes, including THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES (1955), EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH: SCIENCE FICTION TALES OF OUR OWN PLANET (1957) and NINE TOMORROWS: TALES OF THE NEAR FUTURE (1959). Just a hint of tanning to endpapers, a fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corners, a bit of soiling to rear panel, and faint sticker stain on front flap. A nice copy of a scarce book. (#142683)

5. Asimov, Isaac. ROBOTS AND EMPIRE. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. $75

First trade edition. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-52. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $16.95 on the front flap. (#169415)

6. Asimov, Isaac. THE ROBOTS OF DAWN. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, printed blue wrappers. $250

Advance copy reproduced from the author's 504-page typescript. Detective Lije Baley and his robot partner Daneel Olivaw investigate a murder committed on the planet Aurora, a utopian world where men live in harmony with their machines. 1984 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-52. A fine copy. (#11462)

7. Asimov, Isaac. THE STARS, LIKE DUST. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. $1000

First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories, but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS, LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 239. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with light wear to corners, 15 mm closed tear along bottom edge of rear flap fold, and spine ends and some internal age-darkening with some show through on rear panel. (#138685)

8. Asimov, Isaac. THE STARS, LIKE DUST. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. $1000

First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories, but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS, LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 239. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, short closed tear at lower front flap fold with faint associated wrinkle on front panel, and fading to the pinkish-orange ink on the spine panel. Presents well overall. (#142712)

9. Asimov, Isaac. TRIANGLE ... Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1961]. Octavo, cloth. $350

First combined edition, trade issue. Collects three early novels, THE CURRENTS OF SPACE (1952), PEBBLE IN THE SKY (1950) and THE STARS, LIKE DUST (1951). A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $4.95 on the front flap. A lovely "like new" copy. Scarce in this condition. (#173348)

10. (Asimov, Isaac) Fiedler, Jean and Jim Mele. ISAAC ASIMOV. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., [1982]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-viii 1-122 [123-124: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], pictorial wrappers. $25

First edition. Introductory survey of Asimov's science fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-9. A fine copy. (#132411)

11. Green, Maryon Urguhart, writing as "M. Urquhart." THE ISLAND OF SOULS, BEING A SENSATIONAL FAIRY-TALE ... London: Mills & Boon, Limited, [1910]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-433 [434: printer's imprint] [435-440: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank] + 32-page publisher's catalogue "for Spring, 1910" inserted at rear, original olive-green cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. $2500

First edition. "A fully developed Edwardian novel about high magic in contemporary England, and the struggle between forces of good and evil for the soul of a young girl. The motif of psychic vampirism is introduced most emphatically in the last third of the story but is present implicitly from the beginning. It’s made clear that the magician preys on others, extracting potency from the elements, from herbs, minerals, animals (via blood sacrifice), moonlight, ritual, discipline, from people both deliberately and habitually. Later on, he will extract vitality from certain individuals in a more focused and urgent manner -- ritualistically in some cases, surreptitiously in others. The grand irony is that the mage, in preparing himself to be a Vessel for 'the Force we serve,' doesn't see that it's a vessel whose ultimate purpose is to be drained, in turn, by that Force. Carol Chieveley is the teenage daughter of a rector who takes in male pupils, two of whom provide the poles of attraction for her, not only for themselves but for what they represent. Tam Charteris is a type of the fair-haired, athletic, red-blooded English boy, open, brave and proud of his lack of anything smacking of imagination or introspection. Aubrey Rymeris dark, sinuous, secretive, wealthy, his background faintly aristocratic in a foreign, Jewish vein. His manners are a bit too perfect, his self-discipline uncanny, his personality both cold and intense. He sets his sights on Carol not from love but from an appreciation of her beauty and vitality, like a trader appraising a rare antique, in the hope that she might join him one day as an equal in his dark quest. This is what he has been trained for all his life by his wealthy and austere father, whose exotic household, in an old castle, is skilled in occult arts and sworn to chastity and obedience -- enforced by the threat of imprisonment in a lonely tower room which possesses some invisible psychic terror that makes a stay there of even a few hours a soul-crushing agony. The life of the castle is as constrained by rule and ritual as any monastery. On the castle's grounds is a stagnant pond, in the middle of which lies the Island of Souls, a forbidding marshy wasteland that will be the setting later for several crucial scenes of horrid satanic rituals. ('... the flowers were made of carrion-flesh with writhing tentacles that sucked at flies. And as they sucked their colour darkened, and they grew more strong and terrible, sucking now at human shadows which drifted vaguely down the sodden paths. There were grey and fleshy leaves, covered with uncleanly blight, and on their undersides were white worms sucking strength from their corruption. There were trees whose roots were soaked in blood, whose doors opened and showed the forms of Larvae hiding in the heart of the tree...') The third influence in Carol's life (beyond her well-meaning but ineffectual father and aunt -- her mother, like Aubrey's, died in childbirth) is Mother Julian, an anchorite who lives in a cottage near the Rymer's castle, tending the holy healing waters of the Well of St. Tibbald. Her armor against black magic is her perfect charity, which, like a shiny mirror, turns the ill wishes of the Rymers back on themselves. The esoteric lore and imagery in the story have a depth that makes the average occult thriller feel like a municipal summer wading pool for kiddies. On this count, at least, she belongs in the same league as such experts on the subject as Bulwer-Lytton, Machen, Blackwood, Fortune and Brodie-Innes. The fantastic motifs she weaves into her story include scrying, hypnotism, telepathy, astral travel, magical objects and mind-altering drugs. The Rymers, father and son, utilize the whole range of ceremonial magic techniques: mineral, herbal, animalistic, astrological, verbal, physiological. These are no two-dimensional, mustache-twirling villains. They are scholarly, ascetic and dedicated. They compare themselves and their colleagues, in all sincerity, to those martyrs of the church who had suffered for their convictions. The literary force of their evil comes from a characterization that is more than three-dimensional rather than less. Urquhart builds them up for us like an old Renaissance master, with fine brush strokes and multiple layers of translucent color. The book's subtitle ('A Sensational Fairy-Tale') notwithstanding, this is definitely a novel rather than a romance. It is neither sensational nor sentimental. It neither shoves nor tugs at the reader’s feelings. It manipulates them much more subtly and intricately. Urquhart brings the techniques of psychological realism, stylistic precision, and elaboration of background detail (especially in landscape, architecture and manners) to the subject of magic, which is at the thematic front and center of this story. Structurally, the story can be read as a bildungsroman of its young heroine, tracing her painful maturation over the course of a decade from a callow, naive girl of fifteen into a real woman. The national crucible of war (in South Africa) does its part in the formation of her soul. But her own personal crucible has been shaped by the forces of magic (and evil) embodied in Aubrey Rymer, and the forces of religion (and good) embodied in Mother Julian. It's true that the last third of the story drags a little, that Mother Julian is not fully integrated into the action of the story, that the climax is not as explosive as one might have wished (as if the author were emulating the charity of the anchorite, not wishing to gloat over the downfall or chastisement of any of her characters). THE ISLAND OF SOULS is flawed; nevertheless it should be recognized as a substantial contribution to the genre. It is more interesting, by an order of magnitude, than other legendary rarities of this period such as Arthur Ransome's THE ELIXIR OF LIFE (1915) or L. T. Meade's THE DESIRE OF MEN (1899). It deserves to be better known." - Robert Eldridge. Bleiler(1978). p. 197. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). A clean, tight, very good copy, square and internally clean. A lovely copy of a very scarce book that when found is usually in ratty condition. (#170039)

11. Merak, A. J. (pseudonym of John Glasby). DARK ANDROMEDA. London: Panther Books, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. $65

First edition. An ace saboteur is given a desperate mission: destroy an alien armada from the constellation Andromeda that plans to attack Earth. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 99. Harbottle and Holland A201. Reginald 06017. Spine panel lightly spotted, a very good copy in good dust jacket with wear at edges and spine chip from upper spine end. (#146464)

12. Merak, A. J. (pseudonym of John Glasby). DARK ANDROMEDA. London: Panther Books, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. $125

First edition. An ace saboteur is given a desperate mission: destroy an alien armada from the constellation Andromeda that plans to attack Earth. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 99. Harbottle and Holland A201. Reginald 06017. Spine panel lightly spotted, pulpy text paper just a bit tanned at margins, a very good copy in bright, very good or somewhat better dust jacket with light wear at edges. (#146475)

13. Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1954. Octavo, cloth. $250

First edition. 1242 copies printed. "British writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times ... Metcalfe's stories, typically, rely upon fragments of letters, snatches of half-remembered conversation, liquor-dulled reminiscences, murky dreams, fleetingly described photographs, and veiled references to messages never actually quoted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 290. THE FEASTING DEAD is a short novel of psychic vampirism. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-278. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169307)

14. Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1954. Octavo, cloth. $250

15. Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1954. Octavo, cloth. $150

First edition. 1242 copies printed. A short novel of psychic vampirism. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-278. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corner tips and some dust soiling to rear panel. (#95850)

16. Norton, Andre. STAR MAN'S SON 2250 A.D. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1952]. Octavo, black boards with red cloth shelf back, front and spine panels stamped in black. $450

First edition. Brief signed inscription by Norton on title page. 200 years after the "Great Blowup" humans plunder ruined cities and fight rival tribes and mutant "beast-things." "The author's first SF novel, one of her best, both a fine study of coming of age and a convincing portrait of a post holocaust world." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-818. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, pp. 273-4. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2156-8. Bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Corners and lower edges of boards rubbed, a very good copy in bright, good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corners, scuffs along folds, 30 mm ragged vertical tear in rear panel, dust soiling to rear panel, and clipped price. An average copy of a scarce book rarely found in superior condition. (#162419)

17. Nourse, Alan E[dward]. TROUBLE ON TITAN ... Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. $350

First edition. Rebellious miners on Saturn's moon Titan, whose ancestors were exiled therecenturies before and forced to mine the metal now responsible for Earth's prosperity, plan to ruin the Earth and flee the Solar System. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. A fine copy in very good first printing dust jacket (24 titles listed on rear panel) with light edge wear, several short closed tears at edges, dust soiling to rear panel, and clipped price. Jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg. Overall, a bright, attractive example of this colorful jacket. One of the more uncommon books in the Winston science fiction series. (#100049)

18. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). A GNOME THERE WAS AND OTHER TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-276 [277-280: blank], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in silver. $750

First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Moore to Joseph Wrzos on the title page. Kuttner and Moore's first collection of short fiction. Collects eleven short stories, including several classics: "The Twonky" and "Mimsy Were the Borogroves." All but two stories are reprinted from 1940s issues of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION and UNKNOWN where Kuttner was a major star of the time under his own name and as "Lewis Padgett," often in collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. A major collection of 1940s fantastic fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1273. Inked name on the front free endpaper. Slight spine lean, a very good copy in good dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges and shallow chipping and fraying at spine ends. (#174507)

19. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). A GNOME THERE WAS AND OTHER TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Octavo, boards. $250

First edition. Kuttner and Moore's first collection of short fiction. Collects eleven short stories, including several classics: "The Twonky" and "Mimsy Were the Borogroves." All but two stories are reprinted from 1940s issues of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION and UNKNOWN where Kuttner was a major star of the time under his own name and as "Lewis Padgett," often in collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. A major collection of 1940s fantastic fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1273. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with touch of wear at spine ends and corner tips. (#73872)

20. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). MUTANT. New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, boards. $200

First edition. "A conjoining of five well-written but repetitive stories about the "Baldies" -- after the Bomb telepaths who can never decide whether to integrate with or annihilate normal humans." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 247. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-618. Mild rubbing to boards at spine ends, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. A nice copy. (#141333)

21. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). MUTANT. New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, boards. $150

First edition. "A conjoining of five well-written but repetitive stories about the "Baldies" -- after the Bomb telepaths who can never decide whether to integrate with or annihilate normal humans." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 247. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-618. A fine copy in bright, very good or better dust jacket with rubbing at spine ends and dust soiling to rear panel. (#150164)

22. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). ROBOTS HAVE NO TAILS. New York: Gnome Press Inc., [1952]. Octavo, boards. $750

First edition. This copy is signed by Moore on the title page. A collection of five linked stories featuring Gallegher, an alcoholic inventor, first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION in the 1940s. "Amusing adventures of Gallegher, who is capable of inventing fantastic devices only when he is drunk. He has a robot sidekick. All very silly, but they were regarded as among the best humorous SF of their day." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 309. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-245. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of dust soiling to yellow ink. A nice copy. Rarely found signed by Moore. (#169041)

23. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN ... New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, boards. $250

First edition. Collects two short novels first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION as two-part serials in January-February 1947 and January-February 1946 respectively. "... Kuttner's reputation rests primarily on the literate and sophisticated stories he and Moore wrote for John W. Campbell's ASTOUNDING STORIES during the 1940s ..." - Gunn (ed), The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 261. "During the period between 1942 and 1947, Kuttnerand Moore contributed forty-one stories to ASTOUNDING -- forty-eight by 1955 -- including three two-part serials and one three-part serial. The significance of their contribution, however, lies not in the quantity nor the continuation of the thrust of Campbell's new ideas about science fiction through difficult years, although these factors are meaningful. They were one (of two or four) of the finest writers to marry magazine science fiction to literary form, to do it sufficiently often to be noticeable and effective, and to do it -– though perhaps without deliberate intent -– with increasing skill ... Their contributions to the wartime magazine period sustained the level of that 'golden age' which had begun around 1938 or 1939." - James Gunn, "Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Lewis Padgett, et al," Thomas D. Clareson, ed, Voices For the Future (1976), volume 1, pp. 191-92. "Two complexly plotted but superior short novels with grim and bitter dystopian views." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-108. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-619. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with hint of age-darkening to spine panel and along rear flap fold. A sharp copy. (#89463)

24. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN ... New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, boards. $200

First edition. Collects two short novels first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION as two-part serials in January-February 1947 and January-February 1946 respectively. "... Kuttner's reputation rests primarily on the literate and sophisticated stories he and Moore wrote for John W. Campbell's ASTOUNDING STORIES during the 1940s ..." - Gunn (ed), The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 261. "During the period between 1942 and 1947, Kuttnerand Moore contributed forty-one stories to ASTOUNDING -- forty-eight by 1955 -- including three two-part serials and one three-part serial. The significance of their contribution, however, lies not in the quantity nor the continuation of the thrust of Campbell's new ideas about science fiction through difficult years, although these factors are meaningful. They were one (of two or four) of the finest writers to marry magazine science fiction to literary form, to do it sufficiently often to be noticeable and effective, and to do it -– though perhaps without deliberate intent -– with increasing skill ... Their contributions to the wartime magazine period sustained the level of that 'golden age' which had begun around 1938 or 1939." - James Gunn, "Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Lewis Padgett, et al," Thomas D. Clareson, ed, Voices For the Future (1976), volume 1, pp. 191-92. "Two complexly plotted but superior short novels with grim and bitter dystopian views." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-108. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-619. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some wear at edges, mostly at spine ends and corner tips, and clipped price. (#8015)

25. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN ... New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, boards. $150

First edition. Collects two short novels first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION as two-part serials in January-February 1947 and January-February 1946 respectively. "... Kuttner's reputation rests primarily on the literate and sophisticated stories he and Moore wrote for John W. Campbell's ASTOUNDING STORIES during the 1940s ..." - Gunn (ed), The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 261. "During the period between 1942 and 1947, Kuttnerand Moore contributed forty-one stories to ASTOUNDING -- forty-eight by 1955 -- including three two-part serials and one three-part serial. The significance of their contribution, however, lies not in the quantity nor the continuation of the thrust of Campbell's new ideas about science fiction through difficult years, although these factors are meaningful. They were one (of two or four) of the finest writers to marry magazine science fiction to literary form, to do it sufficiently often to be noticeable and effective, and to do it -– though perhaps without deliberate intent -– with increasing skill ... Their contributions to the wartime magazine period sustained the level of that 'golden age' which had begun around 1938 or 1939." - James Gunn, "Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Lewis Padgett, et al," Thomas D. Clareson, ed, Voices For the Future (1976), volume 1, pp. 191-92. "Two complexly plotted but superior short novels with grim and bitter dystopian views." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-108. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-619. A fine copy in very good, attractive dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corner tips, 18 mm closed tear with associated creasing at upper spine end, and clipped price. (#74533)

26. Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore). TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN ... New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, boards. $125

First edition. Collects two short novels first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION as two-part serials in January-February 1947 and January-February 1946 respectively. "... Kuttner's reputation rests primarily on the literate and sophisticated stories he and Moore wrote for John W. Campbell's ASTOUNDING STORIES during the 1940s ..." - Gunn (ed), The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 261. "During the period between 1942 and 1947, Kuttnerand Moore contributed forty-one stories to ASTOUNDING -- forty-eight by 1955 -- including three two-part serials and one three-part serial. The significance of their contribution, however, lies not in the quantity nor the continuation of the thrust of Campbell's new ideas about science fiction through difficult years, although these factors are meaningful. They were one (of two or four) of the finest writers to marry magazine science fiction to literary form, to do it sufficiently often to be noticeable and effective, and to do it -– though perhaps without deliberate intent -– with increasing skill ... Their contributions to the wartime magazine period sustained the level of that 'golden age' which had begun around 1938 or 1939." - James Gunn, "Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Lewis Padgett, et al," Thomas D. Clareson, ed, Voices For the Future (1976), volume 1, pp. 191-92. "Two complexly plotted but superior short novels with grim and bitter dystopian views." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-108. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-619. "Property of U.S. Navy" ink stamped on front paste-down (no other stamps or marks in the book), two corner tips very lightly bruised, a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some rubbing to blue background ink along spine and front flap folds and clipped price. Overall, a bright, attractive copy. (#87196)

27. Pemberton, Clive. THE WEIRD O' IT. London: Henry J. Drane, 1906. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-279 [280: blank] + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original tan cloth, front panel stamped in green and gold, spine stamped in gold. $1500

First edition. Collection of sensational horror stories, "raw-heads-and bloody-bones" after the manner of Dick Donovan's TALES OF TERROR (1899). Malevolent spirits, giant spiders, reanimated mummies, homicidal maniacs, lycanthropes and more. Unsubtle, but energetic and quite entertaining. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 174. Reginald 38011. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Not in the Eaton catalogue. Mild spine lean, cloth just a bit dusty, a very good copy. A lovely copy of a rare book. (#171190)

28. Quinn, Seabury. THE PHANTOM-FIGHTER ... Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1966. Octavo, cloth. $45

First edition. 2022 copies printed. The first collection of stories featuring occult detective Jules de Grandin, ten stories, all first published in WEIRD TALES between 1925 and 1935. "Weak pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales ... [with] recklessly plundered motifs from many sources without any real attempt at consistency." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-123. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-163. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1362. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 811-6. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-191. Mild dust soiling to bottom edge of pages, a nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket with some rubbing at edges, mainly spine ends and along front flap fold, 14 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel, and light tanning to rear panel. (#178411)

29. Rice, Anne. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. $1000

First edition. The author's first book. The first book of the "Vampire Chronicles." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-250. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-194. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear at upper spine end. A very nice copy. (#155592)

30. Rice, Anne. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Octavo, three volumes, cloth. $250

Limited edition. The "20th Anniversary Limited Edition" signed by Anne Rice. The first book of the "Vampire Chronicles." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-250. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-194. King list, p. 391. Winter list, p. 271. A fine copy in dust jacket in paper slipcase. (#169052)

31. Robinson, Frank M. THE POWER. Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. $750

First edition. "An emerging psi-powers story, well-told as a suspense thriller" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-912. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Two short typed business letter to Gerry de la Ree signed by Robinson are laid in. (#174290)

32. Robinson, Frank M. THE POWER. Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. $350

First edition. "An emerging psi-powers story, well-told as a suspense thriller" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-912. Shallow 20 mm long bumps at bottom fore-edge corners, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing to spine ends and along parts of spine and front flap folds and 8 mm closed tear at lower front flap fold. A nice copy overall. (#141369)

33. Shortt, Vere and Frances Mathews. THE ROD OF THE SNAKE. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. New York: John Lane Co., 1917. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-viii [1-3] 4-310 [311-312: ads], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. $1250

First edition. "Novel of black magic set in Paris, pitting Charlie, an Irish soldier, and his makeshift allies against a Haitian voodoo cult determined to gain control of a fetich that Charlie picked up in South Africa, an ironwood staff with a carved snake. One of Charlie's allies, Erichsen (a character who fills the same function here as Heselius, van Helsing and Carnacki do in their respective settings), explains that the Rod is a relic of the Black Magicians of Lemuria, which split off from Atlantis. It has a counterpart in a fetich of an Ape, which the Haitians possess. Both are capable, with the right spells, of evoking the Old Ones, the monstrous elder deities that ruled in Atlantis. The scenes of magical evocation and struggle are nicely done with powerfully atmospheric details. The other aspects of the novel (which Shortt's sister Frances Mathews completed after Shortt was killed in WWI) are less skillfully handled. The novel is an awkward mix of full Edwardian realism, love story and sensational occult romance. But its best features are those that are likely to be of most interest to students of supernatural fiction, especially its adumbrations of that sense of cosmic evil that coalesced into the aesthetic that came to be known as Lovecraftian." - Robert Eldridge. Reginald 09813. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Day, Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Ownership signature dated 1919 on front free endpaper. Shallow dent to bottom edge of front panel, pulpy text-block browning (but not brittle), a very good copy with clean and bright binding. A notably rare book. (#172297)

34. Smith, Clark Ashton. THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO. Sauk City, Wisconsin: ArkhamHouse, 1960. Octavo, cloth. $350

First edition. 2005 copies printed. The fourth collection of Smith's short fiction published by Arkham House, seventeen stories first published in the pulps and amateur magazines between 1926 and 1948. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1487. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-200. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. (#159995)

35. Smith, Clark Ashton. THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO. Sauk City, Wisconsin: ArkhamHouse, 1960. Octavo, cloth. $200

36. Smith, Clark Ashton. THE BLACK BOOK OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH ... Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, [1979]. Octavo, decorated wrappers. $100

First edition. 2588 copies printed. Edited by Donald Sidney-Fryer with R. A. Hoffman. Transcription of the literary material, including story ideas and poems, from Smith's notebook. Includes two memoirs of Smith by George F. Haas. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-51. A fine copy. (#160149)

37. Smith, Clark Ashton. THE DARK CHATEAU AND OTHER POEMS. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1951. Octavo, cloth. $1500

First edition. 563 copies printed. A selection of forty poems, ably showing off his brand of the fantastic, which was heavily influenced by the French Decadents. His sixth collection of poems and the first of three issued by Arkham House. "Lyric poetry offered Smith (as it did Lovecraft and, arguably Poe, as well) a purer form for the expression of his chief literary genius, which was the painting of fantastic tableaus, vignettes and landscapes with little need for character, dialogue or action." - Robert Eldridge. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing to spine folds and 10 mm closed tear at upper front flap fold. A very nice copy overall. (#152376)

38. Smith, Clark Ashton. THE DARK CHATEAU AND OTHER POEMS. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1951. Octavo, cloth. $1000

First edition. 563 copies printed. A selection of forty poems, ably showing off his brand of the fantastic, which was heavily influenced by the French Decadents. His sixth collection of poems and the first of three issued by ArkhamHouse. "Lyric poetry offered Smith (as it did Lovecraft and, arguably Poe, as well) a purer form for the expression of his chief literary genius, which was the painting of fantastic tableaus, vignettes and landscapes with little need for character, dialogue or action." - Robert Eldridge. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to black background ink and mild tanning to spine panel. (#174605)

39. Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES. Sauk City, Wisconsin: ArkhamHouse, 1948. Octavo, cloth. $350

First edition. 3047 copies printed. The author's third collection of weird tales published by Arkham House, containing fifteen tales from his most productive period, the first half of the 1930s. The settings include his two recurrent imaginary realms, French Averoigne and the futuristic Zothique, a post-civilizational wasteland where magic reigns. " ... the best [of the Zothique stories] are possessed of an unparalleled dramatic surge which carries them helter-skelter through a mass of bizarre detail to devastating conclusions." - Brian Stableford, in St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 530. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1486. Tymn(ed), Horror Literature 4-201. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-141. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A sharp copy. (#141403)

40. Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES. Sauk City, Wisconsin: ArkhamHouse, 1948. Octavo, cloth. $350

First edition. 3047 copies printed. The author's third collection of weird tales published by Arkham House, containing fifteen tales from his most productive period, the first half of the 1930s. The settings include his two recurrent imaginary realms, French Averoigne and the futuristic Zothique, a post-civilizational wasteland where magic reigns. " ... the best [of the Zothique stories] are possessed of an unparalleled dramatic surge which carries them helter-skelter through a mass of bizarre detail to devastating conclusions." - Brian Stableford, in St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 530. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1486. Tymn(ed), Horror Literature 4-201. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-141. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. Tiny book label of Ned Brooks affixed to the front paste-down. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of tanning to spine panel. A very nice copy. (#159781)

41. Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES. Sauk City, Wisconsin: ArkhamHouse, 1948. Octavo, cloth. $250

42. Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME. [Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1942. Octavo, cloth. $4250

First edition. A contemporary presentation copy with signed inscription by Smith to Samuel Loveman on the front free endpaper: "For Sam, with / lasting affection, / from Clark / Aug. 31st, 1942." 1054 copies printed. The third Arkham House book. Smith's first major collection of dark fantasy tales and the first Smith book published by Arkham House. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1049. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1484. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 44. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-204. Mild bruises to lower corners (more inward curls than bumps), tiny nick to cloth at bottom edge of rear panel, faint, tiny stain to fore-edge of text block, a very good copy in good dust jacket with wear, closed tears and shallow chipping along top and bottom edges, mostly spine ends and corners, and age-darkening along spine fold and to spine panel. An important association copy. This book is rarely found signed by Smith. (#155513)

43. Smith, Clark Ashton. RED WORLD OF POLARIS: THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VOLMAR. Edited by Ronald S. Hilger & Scott Connors. San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Books, [2004]. Octavo, cloth. $150

First edition. Letter "U" of 26 copies signed by Ronald S. Hilger and Donald Sydney-Fryer. (Scott Connors did not sign due to ill health.) Collects "Marooned in Andromeda," "A Captivity in Serpens" and "The Red World of Polaris," the latter published here for the first time. Also present is the synopsis of The Ocean-Wold of Alioth and Captain Volmar and Crew," an afterword by Donald SidneyFryer. A fine copy in fine dust jacket and cloth slipcase. (#176873)

44. Smith, Clark Ashton. RED WORLD OF POLARIS: THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VOLMAR. Edited by Ronald S. Hilger & Scott Connors. San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Books, [2004]. Octavo, cloth. $35

First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Ronald S. Hilger and Donald Sydney-Fryer. (Scott Connors did not sign due to ill health.) Collects "Marooned in Andromeda," "A Captivity in Serpens" and "The Red World of Polaris," the latter published here for the first time. Also present is the synopsis of The Ocean-Wold of Alioth and Captain Volmar and Crew," an afterword by Donald SidneyFryer. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#158415) THREE COPIES.

45. Smith, Clark Ashton. A RENDEZVOUS IN AVEROIGNE: BEST FANTASTIC TALES OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH ... [Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, [1988]. Octavo, cloth. $150

First edition. 5025 copies printed. Retrospective collection of thirty stories with introduction by Ray Bradbury and illustrations by Jeffrey K. Potter. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#174608)

46. Smith, Clark Ashton. SPELLS AND PHILTRES. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1958. Octavo, cloth. $850

First edition. 519 copies printed. Smith's seventh collection of poems, the second published by Arkham House. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap with a hint of tanning to spine panel, rear flap fold and top edges of flaps. A sharp copy. (#174079)

47. Smith, Clark Ashton. TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY. Sauk City, Wisconsin: ArkhamHouse: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. $250

First edition. 2482 copies printed. Collects fourteen stories and a memoir by E. Hoffmann Price. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1488. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-205. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#141406)

48. Smith, Clark Ashton. TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY. Sauk City, Wisconsin: ArkhamHouse: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. $250

49. Smith, Clark Ashton. TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY. Sauk City, Wisconsin: ArkhamHouse: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. $250

50. Stoker, Bram. DRACULA: OR THE UN-DEAD, A PLAY IN PROLOGUE AND FIVE ACTS ... Edited and Annotated by Sylvia Starshine. Nottingham: Pumpkin Books, [1997]. Octavo, cloth. $250

First edition. Copy M of 26 lettered copies signed by editor Sylvia Starshine. First printing of the full text of Stoker's adaptation of Dracula for the stage. A fine copy in fine dust jacket and slipcase. (#174477)

51. Stoker, Bram. THE FORGOTTEN WRITINGS OF BRAM STOKER. Edited by John Edgar Browning. Foreword by Elizabeth Miller. Afterword by Dacre Stoker. [New York]: Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-ix [x-xi] xii [xiii-xv] xvi-xviii [xix] xx [xxi-xxii] [1] 2-266 [267-268], illustrations, boards. $100

First edition. A miscellany of previously uncollected works of fiction, poetry, and journalistic writings by Stoker, period writings about him, including interviews with him, and a facsimile of the 1913 estate sale catalogue of his personal library. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#177681)

52. Stoker, Bram. SHADES OF DRACULA: BRAM STOKER'S UNCOLLECTED STORIES. Edited by Peter Haining. London: William Kimber, [1982]. Octavo, boards. $250

First edition. A group of eight stories by Stoker "which all relate in some way or another" to DRACULA, "some predating it and revealing how his love of the weird was leading him inexorably towards its creation, and the rest subsequent works which show how its influence was never far from his mind when he took up his pen again" (introduction). Also present is "Another Dracula," a story by Roger Sherman Hoar ("Ralph Milne Farley") published in WEIRD TALES in 1930. The tenth item collected here is "Vampires in New England," a seminal newspaper report found among his papers in 1970. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Scarce. (#176957)

53. Stoker, Bram. SHADES OF DRACULA: BRAM STOKER'S UNCOLLECTED STORIES. Edited by Peter Haining. London: William Kimber, [1982]. Octavo, boards. $200

54. Swain, E[dmund] G[ill]. THE STONEGROUND GHOST TALES COMPILED FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF THE REVEREND ROLAND BATCHEL, VICAR OF THE PARISH. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-187 [188: printer's imprint], original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. $1750

First edition. A collection of nine ghost stories dedicated to Swain's longtime friend M. R. James. "... Swain's tales share many features with those of James' and draw on the friends' common interests and antiquarian studies. They are however rather milder in tone and regularly incorporate a playful humour not often found in James' work. The tales relate the adventures of a fictionalized version of the author, Mr Batchel, Rector of Stoneground parish. Although by today's standards, readers may find Swain's stories rather lacking in supernatural horrors, their subtle qualities become apparent on re-reading, and many find Mr Batchel one of the most enduring creations of English ghost fiction." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 468. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 170. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-193. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1571. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 209. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 419. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-238. Bleiler (1978), p. 190. Reginald 13908. Just a touch of uniform tanning to endpapers and text block, else a fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (reproducing the binding design on blue gray paper stock) with 18 x 15 mm chip from bottom edge of spine panel and some tanning to same. A lovely copy of a book seldom found in the jacket. In a two-part cloth clamshell box. (#115041)

55. Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance." THE DEMON PRINCES SERIES: THE STAR KING, THE KILLING MACHINE, THE PALACE OF LOVE, THE FACE and THE BOOK OF DREAMS. San Francisco, California Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood/Miller, 1980-81. Octavo, five volumes, boards (imitation leather). $600

First U.S. hardcover editions of volumes 1-3, first hardcover edition of volume 4, first edition of volume 5. Trade editions. All five volumes comprising the "Demon Princes" series. "Originally published between 1964 and 1981 ... these five picaresque novels are vintage Jack Vance, crammed to the brim with sardonic wit and beautiful, slightly understated prose. Five aliens, the Demon Princes of the title, were responsible for the Mount Pleasant Massacre, which destroyed an entire world. Kirth Gersen, whose entire family died in the massacre, has dedicated his life to hunting down and avenging himself upon the princes, one per volume." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1160. "More notable for the size and complexity of its imaged universe, and for the quality of the writing, than for the originality of the plot" (Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition [1995]), p. 344. A fine set, without dust jackets as issued. (#159516)

56. Wagner, Karl Edward. WHY NOT YOU AND I? ... Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1987. Octavo, cloth. $350

First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Wagner and artists Val LakeyLindahn and Ron Lindahn. Collects eleven stories including "Lucunae" and "Lost Exits," that were not printed in the 1987 Tor edition, the latter first published here. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-381. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-310. A fine copy in fine dust jacket and paper slipcase. (#169017)

57. Wandrei, Donald. COLLECTED POEMS. Edited by S. T. Joshi ... [West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1988]. Octavo, illustrations by Howard Wandrei, pictorial wrappers. $45

First edition. Collects all currently known poems, those published in ECSTASY AND OTHER POEMS (1928), DARK ODYSSEY (1931) and POEMS FOR MIDNIGHT (1964) as well as hitherto uncollected poems, four of which are first printed here. A fine copy. (#131615)

58. Wandrei, Donald. THE EYE AND THE FINGER. [Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1944. Octavo, cloth. $450

First edition. 1617 copies printed. The author's first book of fiction. The fifth book published by Arkham House, written by it's cofounder. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-204. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1656. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-217. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to spine panel. A very nice copy. (#141513)

59. Wandrei, Donald. STRANGE HARVEST. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1965. Octavo, cloth. $150

60. Wandrei, Donald. THE WEB OF EASTER ISLAND. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948. Octavo, cloth. $150

First edition. 3068 copies printed. "A Cthulhu Mythos novel in which an archaeologist is unlucky enough to find the key which will open a dimensional gateway for the monstrous titans which set in train the evolution of mankind. As with most of Wandrei's work, the novel deploys SF motifs as well as supernatural ones in the service of unrestrained melodrama; the result is saved from silliness only by its zest." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-158. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-205. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1657. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-219. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169007)

61. Wandrei, Donald. THE WEB OF EASTER ISLAND. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948. Octavo, cloth. $150

62. Wandrei, Donald. THE EYE AND THE FINGER. [Sauk City, Wisconsin]: ArkhamHouse, 1944. Octavo, cloth. $450

First edition. 1617 copies printed. The author's first book of fiction. The fifth book published by Arkham House, written by it's cofounder. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-204. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1656. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-217. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with mild rubbing at spine ends, touch of tanning and rubbing to spine panel, and very light water stain at bottom edge of rear panel. Nevertheless, the jacket presents well overall. (#169008)

63. Wandrei, Donald. THE EYE AND THE FINGER. [Sauk City, Wisconsin]: ArkhamHouse, 1944. Octavo, cloth. $200

First edition. 1617 copies printed. The author's first book of fiction. The fifth book published by Arkham House, written by it's cofounder. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-204. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1656. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-217. Light tanning to endpapers (interaction with the dust jacket), else a fine copy in about very good dust jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap with shallow chips from spine ends and considerable tanning to spine panel and along flap folds. (#174076)

64. Wandrei, Donald. POEMS FOR MIDNIGHT. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. $250

First edition. 742 copies printed. "A collection of all the poems Wandrei wished to preserve, taken largely from his earlier collections, ECSTASY AND OTHER POEMS and DARK ODYSSEY (1931). Each poem in the sonnet cycle 'Sonnets of the Midnight Hours' (composed around 1927) was inspired by a dream of Wandrei's. The influence of Clark Ashton Smith (with whom Wandrei had come in contact as early as 1924) is evident." - Joshi, Arkham 74. "Sonnets of the Midnight Hours" may have influenced Lovecraft's "Fungi from Yuggoth." Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-44. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-60. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with merest hint of tanning to spine panel and along flap folds. (#169037)

65. Wandrei, Donald. POEMS FOR MIDNIGHT. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. $250

66. Wandrei, Donald. STRANGE HARVEST. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1965. Octavo, cloth. $100

First edition. 2000 copies printed. Collects seventeen stories. Wandrei's second collection of short fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1658. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-218. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $4.00 on the front flap with mild tanning to spine panel with just a bit of show through along rear spine fold and touch of dust soiling to rear panel. (#174010)