First Book
Night's Black Agents
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947. First Edition.
Notes: First book. Fantasy and horror stories, many collected from the pulp Unknown.
3,084 copies. Jacket art by Ronald Clyne.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 26; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 29.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first and only Arkham printing). A very good copy (endpapers browning due to the glue discoloring) in a very good dust jacket with a short tear and color breaks at the flap fold. 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: #366116
Price: $150