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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 40

[ARKHAM HOUSE]. Group of Seven Scarce Publications Plus One English Edition. [Sauk City: Arkham House, ca. 1940s-1970s].

Estimate: $400 - $600
Starting Bid
$200

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[ARKHAM HOUSE]. Group of Seven Scarce Publications Plus One English Edition. [Sauk City: Arkham House, ca. 1940s-1970s]. 8vos. Publisher's cloth bindings, unclipped dust jackets. FIRST EDITIONS. Titles include: Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People by August Derleth and Mark Schorer, The House of the Worm by Gary Myers, Invaders From the Dark by Greye La Spina, The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson, Demons by Daylight by Ramsey Campbell, Witch House by Evangeline Walton, West India Lights by Henry S. Whitehead, Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey by Lord Dunsany (first UK edition).

Condition

Some general rubbing, toning, foxing, Witch House with tape and tape residue on endleaves and jacket flaps, West India Lights dampstained, Jorkens price-clipped in chipped jacket. Generally very good or better.

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