Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1961. First Edition.
Notes: Collection of macabre poems, with contributions by Derleth, Robert Bloch, Robert H. Barlow, Robert E. Howard, John Betjeman, Frank Belknap Long, Vincent Starrett, Jesse Stuart, Donald Wandrei, and others.
2026 copies. xx, 236 pages. Cover art by Gary Gore.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 61; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 63.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first and only Arkham House printing). A fine, tight copy in a fine dust 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.
Item No: #366126
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