Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(ARKHAM HOUSE.) Collection of First Editions. Together, approximately 50 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth; original dust jackets; condition varies, see notes below. Sauk City: Arkham House, vd

Additional Details

Including: August Derleth. Someone in the Dark. Dust jacket spine panel and edges tanned. 1941 Clark Ashton Smith. Out of Space and Time. Dust jacket spine panel and edges tanned. 1942 H.P. Lovecraft. Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Jacket chipped and tanned. Author's signature affixed to front pastedown adjacent to Vincent Starrett bookplate. 1943 Henry S. Whitehead. Jumble and Other Uncanny Tales. Dust jacket repaired with chips to head of spine panel affecting lettering. 1944 Robert Bloch. The Opener of the Way. Tape residue on free endpapers and jacket spine panel, ownership inscription. Inscribed by author on half-title. 1945 A.E. Van Vogt. Slan. Dust jacket spine panel tanned with small nicks. 1946 Algernon Blackwood. The Doll and One Other. Dust jacket creased and chipped along edges and corners, chip to spine panel touching lettering, tape repairs. 1946 William Hope Hodgson. The House on the Borderland. 1946 Robert E. Howard. Skull-Face and Others. Half-inch chip to head of dust jacket affecting letters. 1946 Cynthia Asquith. This Mortal Coil. 1947 Lord Dunsany. The Fourth Book of Jorkens. 1948 H. Russell Wakefield. Strayers from Sheol. 1961 Donald Wandrei. Strange Harvest. 1965 Brian Lumley. The Caller of the Black. 1971 M.P. Shiel. Xelucha and Others. 1975. Also includes select Mycroft and Moran imprint titles and 10 Arkham Collector pamphlets. Should be seen.