The Travelling Grave and Other Stories
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948. First Edition.
Notes: Crime, fantasy, horror, and mystery stories by a British writer. A UK edition of this book was published later in London. "The core of his weird work—written with elegance, panache, subtlety, and occasional forays into tart satire and even a certain bland sadism—can be found here"—Joshi.
2,047 copies. Jacket art by Frank Utpatel. [vi], 237, [1:blank] pages.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 31; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 31.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A fine, tight copy in a dust jacket with minor color loss at the edges and a bump at the top of the spine. else near fine. With the Lovecraft-inspired letterpress bookplate of the James Strand estate on the front pastedown.
This copy came from the important Arkham House collection assembled by James Strand of Portland, Oregon. After his death, in August 2023, his house was looted and most of his books were stolen. Some were subsequently recovered by the FBI. This book was among those not taken by thieves.
Item No: #365473
Price: $150