A box and a half of Arkham House titles from the James Strand collection, including a number that were stolen and then seized by law enforcement. Each copy includes the Strand estate bookplate on the front pastedown.
First Edition. A collection of interrelated stories. 4903 copies. The cover reproduces a painting by Max Ernst; interior illustrations by Jeffrey K. (J. K.) Potter. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 172. First edition (stated). A fine, tight copy in a fine dust jacket. With the Lovecraft-inspired letterpress bookplate of.....
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First Edition. A time-travel tale set in Victorian England. 4015 copies. Jacket art by J. K. Potter. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 179. First edition (stated). A fine copy with a James Strand estate bookplate in a very good jacket with a short tear at the front flap. This.....
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First Edition. Fantasy and science fiction stories, dating back to the 1930s. An edition of 2500 copies. viii, 424, pages. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 196. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine jacket. With the Lovecraft-inspired letterpress bookplate of the James Strand estate on the front.....
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First Edition. Weird tales. 4138 copies. Jacket design by Denis Tiani. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 123; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 128. First edition (first and only printing). A fine, tight copy in a fine dust jacket but for a bump at the base of the spine. With.....
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First Edition. 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. First edition (first and only Arkham House printing). A fine, tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket with very.....
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First Edition. British weird tales. 3468 copies. Jacket art by Frank Utpatel. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 125; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 131. First edition (first and only Arkham printing). A fine, tight copy in a near fine dust jacket with some light surface scuffing. With the Lovecraft-inspired.....
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First Edition. A Gothic crime novel set in Victorian England. One of 4,050 copies. Jacket art and illustrations by Stephen Fabian. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 151. Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 158. First edition (stated). A very good or better copy in a very good jacket that is.....
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First Edition. A Gothic crime novel set in Victorian England. One of 4,050 copies. Jacket art and illustrations by Stephen Fabian. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 151. Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 158. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. With the Lovecraft-inspired.....
Price: $50
First Edition. 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.....
Price: $75
![Item No: #49149 The Chronicles of Solar Pons [$6.00 Jacket]. August Derleth](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49149.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770439529)
First Edition. A Sherlock Holmes pastiche recovered from FBI evidence as befits a collection of ten crime stories. 4176 copies. Jacket by Frank Utpatel. The last Solar Pons title published by Arkham House (two later collections were licensed to a Canadian publisher). Introduction by Allen J. Hubin. x, 237, [3].....
Price: $85
First Edition. A collection of obscure and previously unpublished Solar Pons stories, issued by a Canadian publisher who licensed the Mycroft & Moran imprint from the Derleth estate. Edited by Peter Ruber. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, M&M 19. Issued simultaneously in hardcover and paperback editions. First edition (stated;.....
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First Edition. The first Mycroft & Moran book, the Arkham House imprint used for detective and mystery titles. Mycroft Holmes was Sherlock's brother in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, and Col. Sebastian Moran was the second-most dangerous criminal in London, after Moriarty. This is the first collection of Derleth's Sherlock Holmes.....
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First Edition. In Derleth's introductory note, he says these may be the last Solar Pons stories he would write. That planned pause didn't last very long and these stories were republished in The Return of Solar Pons in 1958 along with other new installments in this Sherlock Holmes pastiche series.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #55594 Wisconsin Murders [Second State Jacket]. August Derleth](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55594.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770439535)
First Edition. Derleth's only foray into true crime, true tales of sixteen cases of sudden death in Wisconsin from 1842 to 1926. 1958 copies; with one of the better designed jackets by Ronald Clyne. xii, 223, [1:blank] pages. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, M&M 11; Jaffrey, The Arkham House.....
Price: $60
First Edition. 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.....
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First Edition. A collection of stories written in collaboration by Derleth and Schorer when they shared a house in 1931. Most of them appeared eventually in Weird Tales. 2405 copies. Jacket art by Frank Utpatel. [xii], 286, [2:blank] pages. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 87; Jaffrey, The Arkham House.....
Price: $75
First Edition. 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.....
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First Edition. A fantasy novel built around the idea of teleportation. The author's first book. 4148 copies. Jacket art by Stephen Fabian. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 146; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 153. First edition (first and only Arkham printing). A fine, tight copy in a fine dust.....
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First Edition. Poems and short prose pieces influenced by Clark Ashton Smith. 2045 copies. xxx, 135, [3] pages. Cover design by Gordon R. Barnett. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 117; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 122. Jaffrey cites two variants, one with and one without the "limitation page." I......
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First Edition. A collection of stories, most of which appeared in Weird Tales between 1944 and 1950 under August Derleth's pseudonym Stephen Grendon. "The supernatural stories in the collection are among the best ever produced by Derleth"—Jaffrey. 2546 copies. viii, 240 pages. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 70. Jaffrey.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A collection of stories, most of which appeared in Weird Tales between 1944 and 1950 under August Derleth's pseudonym Stephen Grendon. "The supernatural stories in the collection are among the best ever produced by Derleth"—Jaffrey. 2546 copies. viii, 240 pages. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 70. Jaffrey.....
Price: $100
First Edition. A series of tales based on Edgar Allan Poe's detective C. Auguste Dupin first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the 1960s. 1917 copies. xii, 140 pages. Jacket art by Ronald Clyne. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, M&M 10; Jaffrey, The Arkham.....
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First Edition. Crime, fantasy, horror, and mystery stories by a British writer. A UK edition of this book was published later in London. "The core of his weird work—written with elegance, panache, subtlety, and occasional forays into tart satire and even a certain bland sadism—can be found here"—Joshi. 2,047 copies.....
Price: $150
First Edition. "A weird novel...set in Alaska and drawing upon Native American myth"—Joshi. An edition of 2500 copies. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 197. 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.....
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First Edition. A collection of Hodgson's macabre sea stories. Jacket art by Frank Utpatel. 2556 copies printed; x, 301, [1] pages. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 89; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 97. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine jacket. With the Lovecraft-inspired letterpress bookplate of.....
Price: $100
