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November 26, 2024
New arrivals-Arkham House
In 1939, a promising Midwestern mainstream novelist and a popular Midwestern writer of pulp fiction co-founded a small press to publish a hardbound book to preserve the writing and perpetuate the memory of their dearly departed friend and mentor, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Arkham House was officially in business when August Derleth and Donald Wandrei signed the George Banta Publishing Company's "Proposal for Printing" THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS by H. P. Lovecraft, dated 25 August 1939. The highlights this week are from the Arkham House collection of Robert A. "Bob" Madle. More listings at the website.
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|  | THE OPENER OF THE WAY.
Bloch, Robert.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, original black cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Inscribed and signed twice by Robert Bloch to noted fan and founder of first... (#33046)
Price: $1,500.00 | | |
|  | THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS.
Long, Frank Belknap.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-316 [317: colophon] [318: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Long... (#33034)
Price: $750.00 | | |
|  | JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES.
Whitehead, Henry S.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1944. Octavo, jacket illustration by Charles Frank Wakefield, cloth. First edition. 1559 copies printed. The sixth Arkham House book. Whitehead's posthumously published first collection of... (#33136)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | THE WEB OF EASTER ISLAND.
Wandrei, Donald.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3068 copies printed. Signed by Wandrei on the front free end paper. "A Cthulhu Mythos novel in which an archaeologist... (#33150)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Wakefield, H[erbert] Russell.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4040 copies printed. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and... (#33152)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS.
Leiber, Fritz.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Leiber to noted fan and founder of first fandom Robert A. Madle. The author's first book... (#33032)
Price: $750.00 | | |
|  | LOST WORLDS.
Smith, Clark Ashton.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2043 copies printed. The second collection of Smith's short fiction to be published by Arkham House. "Equally varied and colorful material... (#33039)
Price: $850.00 | | |
|  | A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES: POEMS OF FANTASY.
Drake, Leah Bodine.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 553 copies printed. The publication of this book is thought to have been subsidized by Drake with a more than... (#33065)
Price: $1,250.00 | | |
|  | WHO FEARS THE DEVIL?
Wellman, Manly Wade.
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Wellman on the front free end paper. A collection of short fiction featuring Silver John, the wandering ballad-singer... (#33037)
Price: $750.00 | | |
|  | THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU.
Derleth, August.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2470 copies printed. Collects five Mythos stories which all first appeared in Weird Tales magazine. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide... (#33041)
Price: $350.00 | | |
|  | THE MASK OF CTHULHU.
Derleth, August.
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Cthulhu Mythos stories which all but one first appeared in Weird Tales. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. 521... (#33040)
Price: $450.00 | | |
|  | PLEASANT DREAMS -- NIGHTMARES.
Bloch, Robert.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Bloch to "Bob" - who was Robert A. (Bob) Madle, noted fan and founder of... (#33134)
Price: $450.00 | | |
|  | AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS AND OTHER NOVELS.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, jacket art Lee Brown Coye, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by jacket artist Lee Brown Coye to Stuart David Schiff on... (#33024)
Price: $450.00 | | |
|  | SELECTED LETTERS 1-V [FIVE VOLUMES] (1911-1924, 1925-1929, 1929-1931, 1932-1934, 1934-1937).
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers and Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1965, 1968, 1971, 1976. Octavo, five volumes, cloth. First edition. Volumes one to three, edited by August Derleth and... (#33053)
Price: $650.00 | | |
|  | HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER.
Tiptree, Jr., James (pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon).
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Introduction by John Clute. Collects eighteen stories. "More than 500 pages of the best fiction of one of... (#33066)
Price: $250.00 | | |
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