The Shunned House ---by H P Lovecraft / Arkham House Edition --- book # 2 of 50 copies (facsimile of the 1928 W Paul Cook / Recluse Press edition) by Lovecraft, H P ( Howard Phillips ), Preface By Frank Belknap Long, Jr.; Essay By Robert Weinberg, Compiled By Dan Boulden / Arkham House - 2008

London: Methuen, (Circa 1940), 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good Book/Good- Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket Designed By Stapledon. Light Blue Boards. First Edition, First Impression, Later Issue But No Indication Of Later Printing. Shorter Binding (18.3 Cm Tall), Blue-Violet Cloth With Black Print (Format Different Than First Binding), No Ads, Using First Impression Sheets. Dustjacket Is Identical To First Issue, Priced 7S6p At Lower Front Flap, Except It Is Trimmed To 185.6 Mm (Considerably Taller Than This Issue Of The Book, But Shorter Than The First Issue Dj), And Has A Printed Paper Label "Offered At 2'- Net Ex-Libris" At Foot Of Spine, Above The Publisher's Name. This Binding And This Labelling Of The Dustjacket Is Not Listed In Satty & Smith's Definitive Bibliography. Satty & Smith's A6.1.1.4, First Edition, First Impression, Fourth Issue (March 1939, 555 Copies), Has The First Issue Binding, And Includes The Later Ads, In A Dj With A… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1951. First American Edition 1st Printing. Grey Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good + DJ. 222 Pp. Grey Blue Cloth Stamped In Green. Stated First Edition; Preceding The British Edition And With Textual Differences. Book Is Bright, Clean, No Marks, Tight, No Fraying, No Wear. Triangular Green Armorial Bookplate Of Sf And Non-Fiction Writer L. Sprague De Camp, On Front Pastedown Mostly Under Front Flap, With Later Signature Of A Fan Dated October 1955. Dj Not Price Clipped, Clean, Lightly Rubbed At Corners, Slight Fading To Blues On Spine Panel, Closed 1/2" Tear And Closed 3/8" Tear At Top Of Rear Panel, Would Still Be Near Fine Except For A Triangular Chip In Lower Center Of Spine, 3/8" Wide And 5/8" Long ( Possibly From Removal Of A Price Label).

Reading: Fantasy Press, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good + DJ. 257 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. One Of 2008 Copies Of The First Printing (With 1947 Date And All Interior Illustrations Present, "First Edition" Stated On Copyright Page), Of Which 300 Had An Inserted Numbered Plate (This One Being #58). The First Book From Fantasy Press. This First Issue Copy In The Proper First Issue Dust Jacket With Only Four Titles On Back. Book With Light Rubbing To Spine, All Gilt Present And Bright But Not As Brilliant As When New. Dj With Light Wear At Corners, Wear And 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel, Minute Losses At Ends Of Spine And At Tips, Two 1/8" Deep Tears At Top Of Spine. (The Bibliography Of This Book Is Complex: A Reprint Of 1000 Copies In 1947 Dropped The Interior Illustrations But Not The Date, And A Later 1949 Reprint Of 2510 Copies Also Lacked The Interiors, Except For 985 Bound With Only The Frontispiece. All Later Issue Dust Wrappers List… Read More

Reading: Fantasy Press, 1949. First Edition . Purple Cloth. Near Fine Book/Fine Dustjacket. Donnell. First Edition, first binding (per Currey, purple cloth) near fine in an as-new bright fine DJ, with an inserted limitation plate, #5 of 250 copies signed by Campbell, one of the scarcer Fantasy Press limited editions; Campbell is said to have refused to sign more than 250 copies, and the remainder of the 500 copies were issued with unsigned limitation plates.

Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1946. Includes Appreciations by E. Hoffmann Price and H. P. Lovecraft. Barron (ed), Contains: "Foreword" by August Derleth, "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam" by H.P. Lovecraft, and "A Memory of R.E. Howard" by E. Hoffmann Price.HBDJ, 1946, 1ST EDITION, Dates Match on Title & Copyright pg, VG/GOOD-, Limited to 3,000 Copies in back of book, 474 pgs, FOXING INTERIOR PGS, Black cloth over boards tiny nicks with gilt lettering and ornamental designs on the spine, Front of Dj Nice & Brigh with small Chips along Fold of Inner Flap & tiny chnips Wear Extremities, Back dJ soiling slightly & spine DJ end chips,, and A Memory of R.E. Howard by E. Hoffmann Price. A first Limited edition from an author noted for his Conan series, and his numerous fantastic adventure stories featured in Weird Tales. authors Posthumous first book published in the U.S. and his first collection of short fantasy fiction. An omnibus volume collecting stories featuring Conan, Solomon Kane,… Read More

Japan: Japan: Kokusho-Kankohkai / Arkham House Publishers, 1984, 1985, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1985. -----------( Japanese Editions of H P LOVECRAFT ) ---9 VOLUMES - hard covers, about 6w x 8.5h inches, all are Near Fine / Fine examples, upper edge of v.3 is speckled/spotted, all issued without dustjackets, all housed in lightly rubbed Very Good to Very Good+ slipcases which sport H R Giger illustrations taken from his edition of The Necronomicon, facsimile of Lovecraft's personal bookplate on verso of front covers ( in Western format this would be the rear cover but Japanese text starts at what we consider the back of the book ), seven of the nine volumes sport the original belly-bands, laid into each volume is some promotional material which might be for these books as that literature is titled ARKHAM ADVERTISER, as well each volume has the Arkham House logo on the front endpaper (again at what we would consider the back of the book ), so these were clearly authorized by AH, all with… Read More

USA: USA: Clayburn S Moore Creations, 1996, 1st (and only) issue, Limited Edition , 1996. -----------( LIMITED EDITION ) ---cold-cast porcelain statue of FRAZETTA's PRINCESS, based on the character DEJAH THORIS from the Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, issued in 1996 by Clayburn Moore Creations, statue is about 8.25 inches high, base is about 6.5 inches wide, --sits on a dark wood circular base which is about 7 inches wide x 1.25 inches thick so the overall height of statue and base is over 9 inches tall ---looks very nice, base of statue shows the limitation and production information, both the statue and the base are in Very Fine condition, might be a bit dusty but this has been displayed as part of a book collection with subdued lighting and NO exposure to sunlight, this statue and base has the original box, box measures about 12h x 9.5w x 8.5 inches deep, box is also numbered to match the statue, box overall is Near Fine with a bit of rubbing, ---a lovely production which would make a… Read More

1875 1ed Jules Verne From the Earth to the Moon Astronauts SciFi Space Gun Club
Jules Verne's adventure novels are some of the most popular and famous works of literature of all time. Part of the illustrious 'Voyages Extraordinares' series, his book 'From the Earth to the Moon' is one of the most influential works of science-fiction of the 19th-century. It tells the story of American weapon makers attempting to build an enormous space gun big enough to launch people onto the moon! According to Barron, this book is
"the first interplanetary novel to focus on the technical and organizational preparations for the voyage, using the actual blast-off as a climax…one of the definitive foundation stones of the science fiction genre."
This first Hetzel edition was published in Paris.
Item number: #13554
Price: $599
VERNE, Jules
De la terre a la lune; trajet direct en 97 heures.
Paris : J.Hetzel et Cie, [1875]. 1st edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [4], 169, [3]
o… Read More

Condition: Very Good; issued without dj. Full red leather boards with vibrant sewn-in gold ribbon marker; gold embossed textblock. B&w and full color illustrations by John Schoenherr; remembrances by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Ray Bradbury and more. Faint white smudge marks to gilt fore edge and bottom edge. Faint rub marks to front board. This stunning book includes the Collector's Notes from Easton Press.

312+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and 5 and white plates by John Coleman Burroughs. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth lettered in red, red top edge, illustrated endpapers of map of Amtor; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. (Currey p. 87; Heins CV–1 (V3); Zeuschner 70) First edition. This is third novel in the Venus series. The Amtor or Venus Series is a science fantasy series consisting of four novels and one novelette written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Most of the stories were first serialized in Argosy, an American pulp magazine. It is sometimes known as the Carson Napier of Venus Series, after its main character, Carson Napier. Napier attempted a solo voyage to Mars, but, because of mistaken navigational calculations, he finds himself heading toward the planet Venus instead. The novels, part of the Sword and Planet subgenre of science fiction, follow earthman Napier's fantastic adventures after he crash-lands on Venus,… Read More