| December 18, 2024 New arrivals-more Arkham House
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.
We would also like to take this opportunity to wish all a wonderful holiday season and best wishes in the coming new year.
| 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | "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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | | | 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 | | | | 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 | | | | |
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