The Height of the Scream
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1976. First Edition.
Notes: Short horror stories.
4348 copies. xx, 231, [1] pages. Jacket art by Rob Fendel.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 137; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 143.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first and only Arkham House printing). A fine, tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket with very minor bumping at the top of the spine. 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: #366124
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