Dragonfly
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1999. First Edition.
Notes: The author's first novel, "a substantial novel mingling elements of fantasy and horror focusing on the strange things a ten-year-old girl... finds in the basement of her uncle's funeral parlor"—Joshi.
One of 4,000 copies. viii, 298, [5:blank], [colophon] pages. Jacket art and illustrations by Jason Van Hollander.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 191.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine jacket. 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.
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