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Tag Archives: Arkham House
Rediscovered: The Shadow and His Signatories
Autograph Hound Super-Sunday once more! Haven’t done one of these in awhile — and for once it’s not coming from that maniacal Autograph Hound Brian Leno. At least not directly. Brian did tip me to a plethora of John Hancocks … Continue reading
Posted in DMac, Lit
Tagged Anthony Boucher, Arkham House, Autographs, Bouchercon, Brian Garfield, Brian Leno, Christiana Brand, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Edward D. Hoch, Frederic Dannay, Gahan Wilson, Gary Phillips, Isaac Asimov, Jack Kerouac, John Ball, Jon L. Lellenberg, Kent Harrington, Lin Carter, Maxwell Grant, Michelle Slung, Phyllis A. Whitney, Phyllis White, Posse McMillan, Richard Lackritz, Robert Fish, Ron Goulart, Stanley Ellin, Steranko, The Shadow, Walter Gibson
Rediscovered: Place of Hawks (Not the House of Arkham)
Brian Leno has nabbed another couple of items for his bulging shelves — or you could think of it as three, maybe four items. The book Place of Hawks. The belly-band on the dustwrapper. A letter from August Derleth, a … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Alfred Dashiell, Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Clycde Beck, Detroit News, Edward J. O;Brien, John D. Haefele
Rediscovered: Writing Away in Arkham House
Autograph Hound Saturday again, but this time we ain’t got no John Hancock — we’ve got a book stamp. You know we could begin knocking out a series — a long series — of Book Stamp Saturdays or Mondays or … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Arkham House Ephemera — The Classic Years
Ready to order, the book on the Classic Era of Arkham House Ephemera I’ve been promising for years awaits you. 150 Items covered (with 3 playfully hidden away for the readers who like to have a little fun with their … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Another Green Something Breathing
Remember when bookseller and collector Paul Dobish discovered that the Stanley McNail poetry collection Something Breathing was bound in two variants of green cloth? “Until recently,” Paul tells me, “all of the copies of the Arkham House first edition that … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, Book Collecting, Paul Dobish, Something Breathing, Stan McNail
Rediscovered: And 50 Years Ago
Back in 1974 I had my first review published in issue 9 of the Harry Morris, Jr. zine Nyctalops, which will make it 50 Years Worth of selected essays and reviews when collected, crammed into two eBook LitCrit MegaPacks. Guessing, … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, Book Collecting, Harry Morris, John D. Haefele, Nyctalops, Paul Dobish, Terry McVicker
Rediscovered: A Look Behind the Ed Price Biblio
Doing some email with noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook, the topic of Ed Price’s collection of pulp era memoirs came up — in particular the bibliography of Price’s own pulp fictioneering that appears in the book. Since I … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, E. Hoffmann Price, John D. Haefele, Kevin Cook, PEAPS, Peter Ruber, Virgil Utter
Rediscovered: More Derleth Bibliography
Check out the latest book from John D. Haefele, if you have an interest in August Derleth or Lovecraft or the general Arkham House landscape. Or if you’re simply one of those people who enjoy plunging into a meaty bibliography. … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Hesperia Press cat butt, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, The Cimmerian Press
Rediscovered: An Item of Modern Arkham House Ephemera
John D. Haefele and I actually have been slaving away on a book on Arkham House ephemera from the Classic Years — 1937-1972. We’ve got guys eyeballing some of the largest private collections (as I post, one stalwart has the … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Lin Carter (or Not Lin Carter) Annotates Klarkash-Ton
Got a note from Kristopher Curling along with several pics asking if his recent purchase of The Dark Chateau, published by Arkham House in 1951, contains holograph annotations by Lin Carter. He knows the book comes from Carter’s collection, and … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Arkham House, Book Collecting, Clark Ashton Smith, Kristopher Curling, Lin Carter, Robert Weinberg
