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Autumn Chills: Fine Horror and Mystery Literature

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Our fall sale of fine books & manuscripts focuses on rare horror and mystery first editions, scarce pulps and zines, manuscripts, and more by the most famous authors of modern works in the genres of horror and mystery. Among the highlights are the true first edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and other cornerstones of the genre.
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Lot 33

[ARKHAM HOUSE]. Group of 15 First Editions. [V.p., ca. 1940s-1990s].

Estimate: $300 - $500
Starting Bid
$150

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[ARKHAM HOUSE]. Group of 15 First Editions. [V.p., ca. 1940s-1990s]. 8vos. Publisher's bindings, dust jackets. FIRST EDITIONS.

Titles include: Born to Exile by Phyllis Eisenstein (signed by her); And Afterward, the Dark [and] From Evil's Pillow by Basil Copper; Fearful Pleasures by A. E. Coppard; Stories of Darkness and Dread by Joseph Payne Brennan; Dark Things edited by August Derleth; West India Lights by Henry S. Whitehead; Eight Tales by Walter de la Mare; Thirty Years of Arkham House (ownership signature on ffep.); The Survivors and Others by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth; The Doll and One Other by Algernon Blackwood; Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers... by L. Sprague de Camp; Meeting in Infinity by John Kessel; Xelucha by M. P. Shiel; Cthulhu 2000 edited by Jim Turner. 

Condition

Some rubbing, toning, foxing, occasional soiling, minor chips, tears to some jackets. Generally very good or better. 

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