langley searles (6 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Overszied in illustrated stiff wrappers with front cover photographic portrait of Sam Moskowitz. Sequentially paginated pp. 82- 154. Fine, bright example. Issue devoted to sci-fi/fantasy editor and historian Sam Moskowitz who had died in April 1997.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Volume 5, number 2 (Winter 1984). Corners slightly fanned. (science fiction, fantasy, poetry).

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Oversized in stiff wrappers. Photographic portrait of Lovecraft on front cover. 74 pp. Celebration of the centenary of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's birth, most of the pieces in this number are devoted to him, his, work, his contemporaries, and friends. Very good, bright and crisp but with a small, circular stray pen mark bottom of front cover.

Zustand: Very Good. Number 2. Spring, 1945. A science fiction fanzine published for FAPA. Two sheets printed on both sides, stapled at top corner. Very Good with toning and wear, wear at edges and marginal tear to both sheets. Ink check mark to top corner.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. pp (77)-148. Original illustrated yellow paperback. Illustrations. Signed presentation copy from Mike Ashley. Articles include: Algernon Blackwood and the Golden dawn, by Mike Ashley; The Genesis of Ideas, by Algenon Blackwood; Gerald Bliss-Creator of a Werewolf Classic, by Richard Dalby. Very good indeed. Signedes.

Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First American Edition. 3014 copies printed (3000 stated). Tall octavo; publisher's cloth in Hannes Bok-illustrated dust jacket with original $5.00 price; xi,[1],639pp. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with slightly heavier wear and creasing to flaps. Boards show light shelfwear with a couple very small chips to crown; very slight bowing towards fore-edge. Binding sound. Bit of toning to endpapers and interior otherwise unmarked; overall a Very Good or better copy in a remarkably well-preserved Near Fine dust jacket. The Arkham Edition includes "The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig,' "The Ghost Pirates," and "The Night Land," in addition to the title story. While the novel was originally published in Britain in 1908, it was H.C. Koenig's introduction of Hodgson's work to the Lovecraft Circle that rescued the author from obscurity, and its influence has endured with Terry Pratchett calling it "the Big Bangin my private universe as sf/fantasy reader and, later, writer." Joshi 16; Jones & Newman 29.