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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 323

SHEA, Michael (1946-2014). Pair of Printed Manuscripts for Novellas. [V.p., ca. 1980s].

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SHEA, Michael (1946-2014). Pair of Printed Manuscripts for Novellas Plus Two Signed, Limited Editions. [V.p., ca. 1980s]. Photocopy of the manuscript of I, Said the Fly with a few hand-corrections. 87 pages, rectos only. With Typed Letter Signed from Shea to publisher of Silver Salamander Press, John Pelan, a typed manuscript of Larry Tritten's introduction for I, Said the Fly, with typed note signed to Pelan. With an ARC of I, Said the Fly. [And:] Photocopy of the manuscript of Shea's Cthulhu mythos novella, Fat Face, signed by him. 46 pages, rectos only. With two proof copies, original cover artwork by Donna Gordon, publisher's in-house proof manuscript with occasional corrections or notes, various correspondence between Shea and the publisher John Pelan (Axolotl Press), and related letters from Karl Edward Wagner to Pelan, signed by Wagner, about Fat Face appearing in The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI. Offered with: I, Said the Fly. Silver Salamander Press, [1993]. #20/50 COPIES SIGNED BY SHEA AND TRITTEN. [And:] Fat Face. Axolotl Press, [1987]. #51/60 COPIES SIGNED BY SHEA AND KARL EDWARD WAGNER.

Condition

The usual occasional rubbing, soiling to manuscripts. Fine.

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