From FBI Evidence
Half in Shadow
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1978. First Edition.
Notes: Stories from a UK book with the same title plus others, mostly collected from Weird Tales. According to Jaffrey, Counselman was the "top seller of the women writers of Weird Tales."
An edition of 4288 copies. xii, 214, [2:blank] pages. Jacket art by Tim Kirk.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 145; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 152.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine jacket with just a hint of soiling to the white rear panel. 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. This copy was recovered by the FBI from a storage unit in Oregon City and it includes the original evidence tag.
Item No: #366137
Price: $75