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December 18, 2024
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This week we are featuring more selections from Robert A. "Bob" Madle's  Arkham House collection, including Mycroft & Moran. Please check our website for many more additions from this collection.
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33277 THE ARKHAM SAMPLER.
ARKHAM SAMPLER, THE. Winter 1948 - Autumn 1949 (volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4).
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948-1949 (volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4). Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. All published. A short lived, but important periodical. In addition to printing... (#33277)
Price: $1,500.00  

33227 FLOWERS FROM THE MOON AND OTHER LUNACIES.
Bloch, Robert.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publisher, Inc., 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty stories first published in WEIRD TALES, STRANGE STORIES, and ROGUE. (#33227)
Price: $100.00  

33231 OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS.
Bond, Nelson.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 2005. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Twelve short stories and novelettes and a complete novel, all previously uncollected, all first published in pulp magazines... (#33231)
Price: $75.00  

33245 THE INHABITANT OF THE LAKE AND LESS WELCOME TENANTS.
Campbell, Ramsey.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Campbell to Bob [Madle], noted fan and founder of first fandom. Campbell's first book, a.... (#33245)
Price: $350.00  

33221 LOVECRAFT REMEMBERED.
(Lovecraft, Howard Phillips) Cannon, Peter (ed.).
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "An exhaustive and well-nigh definitive collection of memoirs of Lovecraft by friends, correspondents, and acquaintances. Virtually all the memoirs... (#33221)
Price: $100.00  

33224 THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF.
Copper, Basil.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc, [1983]. Octavo, illustrations by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Victorian thriller in which an expert on Lycanthropy attending a conference in Hungary is... (#33224)
Price: $100.00  

33233 FEARFUL PLEASURES.
Coppard. A[lfred] E[dgar].
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories. [Reference: Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-87, Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #427]... (#33233)
Price: $250.00  

33191 DARK OF THE MOON: POEMS OF FANTASY AND THE MACABRE.
Derleth, August (editor).
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2634 copies printed. "The single most vital volume in any collection of supernatural verse. Lengthy, rich, and representative; 64 poets... (#33191)
Price: $450.00  

33199 THE MEMOIRS OF SOLAR PONS.
Derleth, August.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front free end paper. The second collection of Solar Pons stories. Collects... (#33199)
Price: $250.00  

33184 NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.
Derleth, August.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection, most from Weird Tales and several other weird fiction pulps. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction... (#33184)
Price: $300.00  

33208 PRAED STREET PAPERS.
Derleth, August.
NY: The Candlelight Press, 1965. Small octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition. Collects data on Derleth's fictional character Solar Pons including his origin, sources of the tales, tentative chronology of... (#33208)
Price: $250.00  

33198 "IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES": THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS.
Derleth, August.
Sauk City: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Generically inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front free end paper. The first Solar Pons collection, twelve stories. "As... (#33198)
Price: $500.00  

33203 THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS.
Derleth, August.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 996 copies printed. Collects three Solar Pons adventures. [Reference: Hubin, pp. 229-230]. (#33203)
Price: $500.00  

33259 THE TRAVELLING GRAVE AND OTHER STORIES.
Hartley, L[eslie] P.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1948. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-235 [236: blank] [237: colophon] [238: blank], cloth. First edition. Hartley scattered supernatural material throughout his short story collections, as well... (#33259)
Price: $250.00  

33253 ALWAYS COMES EVENING: THE COLLECTED POEMS.
Howard, Robert E.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1957. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of 68 poems by Howard compiled by Glenn Lord who subsidized its publication by Arkham House. Only... (#33253)
Price: $2,000.00  

33269 CARNACKI THE GHOST-FINDER.
Hodgson, William Hope.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, 1947. Octavo, illustration by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First U.S. edition. Adds three stories not included in the British edition (Nash, 1913). [Reference: Barron (ed.)... (#33269)
Price: $350.00  

33262 DEEP WATERS.
Hodgson, William Hope.
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, illustration by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. A selection of his best sea stories gathered from various collections including MEN OF THE DEEP... (#33262)
Price: $150.00  

33257 REVELATIONS IN BLACK.
Jacobi, Carl.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Twenty-one stories first published in the pulps, mostly in WEIRD TALES. 3082 copies printed. [Reference: Barron... (#33257)
Price: $250.00  

33242 SIXTY YEARS OF ARKHAM HOUSE: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Joshi, S.T.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3500 copies printed. (#33242)
Price: $75.00  

33266 THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS.
Long, Frank Belknap.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Long to Bob [Madle], noted fan and founder of first fandom. This copy with the... (#33266)
Price: $350.00  

33236 THE RIM OF THE UNKNOWN.
Long, Frank Belknap.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3650 copies printed. Inscribed and signed by Long to Bob Madle, noted fan and founder of first fandom. Collects twenty-three... (#33236)
Price: $250.00  

33162 ARKHAM'S MASTERS OF HORROR: A 60th ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY RETROSPECTIVE OF THE FIRST 30 YEARS OF.
Ruber, Peter, editor.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and others, excerpts from letters... (#33162)
Price: $75.00  

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