Check out this notice from Todd Warren on Facebook that John D. Haefele just sent my way, as we keep loose track of what prices are being asked for Arkham House ephemera — you know, the items we cover in our most excellent pictorial history Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years 1937-1973.
A nice lot, for which $2000 is quite in keeping with what they’ve been going for lately. In the Eph Book Twenty Years of Writing is cited as Item 24, Twenty-Five Years is Item 49, and Thirty Years is Item 61.
Most Arkham collectors know about these three, but are unaware of Item 25 — Twenty Years with a variant cover.
And just think if the group included the 1941 chapbook in which Derleth celebrated Fifteen Years of Writing! Item 5 in our check list — primal ephemera as Arkham House came into existence — the real title is August Derleth: Biographical, Personal, Bibliographical. Another five years would pass before Derleth came up with a better designation to landmark his ongoing literary output.
I suspect Item 5 alone would add another thou into the equation. Actually, if you’ve got that one, I bet it would double this asking price.
If you’re on FB and in the mood. . . .
