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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 183

Group of 26 Assorted Horror or Science Fiction First Editions. [V.p., ca. 20th - 21st centuries].

Estimate: $300 - $500
Starting Bid
$150

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Group of 26 Assorted Horror or Science Fiction First Editions. [V.p., ca. 20th - 21st centuries]. 8vos and 4tos. Publisher's cloth, most with dust jackets. FIRST EDITIONS. 

Titles include: The Fox Woman / The Blue Pagoda by Merritt and Bok (2 copies, both lack jackets); The Black Wheel by Merritt (in jacket); The Dream of X by William Hope Hodgson; The Vultures [and] Marchers of Valhalla by Robert E. Howard; Strange Ports of Call selected by August Derleth; Thunder Jim Wade by Henry Kuttner; The Valley of Doom by Mary Richmond (UK edition); The Terrible Awakening by Hugh Desmond (UK edition); Science Fiction Carnival edited by Frederic Brown and Mack Reynolds; The Port of Peril by Otis Kline; Hades & Hocus Pocus by Lester Dent; Alien Minds by E. Everett Evans; Cahena (price-clipped) [and] The School of Darkness by Manly Wade Wellman; A Trip to Polaris by Charles S. Muir (no jacket); The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing by Joseph Payne Brennan; Doorways to Space [and] Planets of Adventure by Basil Wells; The Silver Stallion by James Branch Cabell; The Curse of the Fleers by Basil Copper; The Greenfield Mystery by George F. Worts; Land of Unreason by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp; The Philosophical Corps by E. B. Cole; Divide and Rule by de Camp.

Condition

Some general wear, rubbing, toning, occasional soiling, tears, a few with ownership markings. Generally near fine or better.

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