Another Borderlands Little Book:
White, Edward Lucas. A Little Green Book of Grue. Borderlands Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #462 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. A shame they didn’t make it a little white book of some sort…
Archive for the ‘Horror’ Category
Library Addition: Edward Lucas White’s A Little Green Book of Grue
Wednesday, June 28th, 2023Library Addition: Signed First of George Romero’s The Living Dead
Friday, June 23rd, 2023A little out of line with what I usually buy, but I thought the limitation was low enough to be worth picking up.
Romero, George A. and Daniel Kraus. The Living Dead. Short Scary Tales (SST) Publications, 2023. First edition hardback, 322 of 400 copies signed by Suzanne Romero, Daniel Kraus, Vincenzo Natali and Francois Vaillancourt, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Hefty 736 page original novel set in Romero’s Living Dead universe. Now sold out from the publisher, though I do have one copy available through Lame Excuse Books.
Library Addition: Library of Weird Fiction: Frank Belknap Long
Tuesday, June 20th, 2023Got this on-sale from Centipede Press:
Long, Frank Belknap (S. T. Joshi, editor). Library of Weird Fiction: Frank Belknap Long. Centipede Press, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, still in shrinkwrap. Massive 800+ page collection of fiction by this contemporary and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft. Bought for $40.
Library Additions: Two DAW Year’s Best PBOs
Monday, June 19th, 2023These are both parts of Year’s Best Series that I pick up as targets of opportunity. Both of these were bought as part of a small paperback lot from a friend who was culling his collection.
Library Addition: Two PS Publishing Firsts
Wednesday, June 14th, 2023Two PS Publishing titles, both bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
I have both of these available through Lame Excuse Books.
Library Additions: Two Signed Joe R. Lansdale Firsts
Wednesday, June 7th, 2023One a signed, limited edition, the other inscribed to me in person.
Library Addition: Signed Robert Bloch Bibliography
Monday, June 5th, 2023Another addition to the reference library:
(Bloch, Robert) Larson, Russell D. The Complete Robert Bloch: An Illustrated Comprehensive Bibliography. Fandom Unlimited Enterprises, 1986. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine- copy with trace of wear at tips, signed by Bloch. Just what it says, an illustrated bibliography of Bloch’s work. Looks useful, though the type is a bit small for my aging eyes. Justice, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Reference 185. Bought of eBay for $35 plus shipping.
Library Addition: Jeremias Gotthelf’s The Black Spider
Monday, May 29th, 2023Way down on the list of my collecting vectors is books about giant spiders, so when I saw in a Heritage Auctions lot I decided to track down a copy.
Gotthelf, Jeremias (pseudonym for Albert Bitzius). The Black Spider. John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., 1958. First English language edition, a Near Fine+ copy with slight spine lean and former owners name inside front cover under flap, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with 1/4″ chip at head, two pinhead-sized abrasions at heel front join, wear at points, and moderate age darkening to white portion of spine. Nineteenth century allegorical horror story about evil made manifest as a giant black spider. Introduced and translated from the original German by H. M. Waidson. Barron, Horror Literature 2-35. Not in Bleiler’s Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Bought off a fellow Biblio dealer for $21.25.
Library Addition: First Edition of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
Tuesday, May 16th, 2023Another auction win:
Lovecraft, H. P. The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Shroud: Publishers, 1955. First edition trade paperback original (Currey A, orange wrapper bound with brown tape) simultaneous with a small hardback run, #1341 of 1,500 copies, a Near Fine copy with former owner’s name on front free endpaper and some evenly-spaced diagonal wrinkles to spine (possibly as issued by Shroud), in a Very Good first state (publisher’s address of 819 Michigan Avenue, Buffalo 3, New York, as per Currey) dust jacket with shallow chipping at head and heel and staining along spine and at top front near edgefold. First edition of this Dunsanean Dreamlands novella, which ties into Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos but is also distinct from it. Shroud was an odd press, and this book displays Shroud’s “amateurish” (to quote Chalker/Ownings) quality. Currey, page 322. Chalker & Owings, The Science Fantasy Publishers, pages 403-404. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography I.31. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1048 (“repetitious, alternately aiming for childishness and horror, maundering and wandering, it has little to offer except a rather pointless integration of the earlier Dunsanean stories”). Magill, Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, pages 431-435. Bought from a Potter & Potter auction for $187.50.
Library Addition: Tales From Arkham Sanitarium
Thursday, April 20th, 2023Ordered this back in 2021, and the trade state came in this year. (Still waiting on the limited.)
Sammons, Brian M. Tales From Arkham Sanitarium. Dark Regions Press, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in decorated boards with one tiny bump near bottom front corner, sans dust jacket, as issued. Cthulhu Mythos anthology, featuring a few familiar names (Don Webb, W. H. Pugmire, etc.). I’m not thrilled that Dark Regions had fulfillment through Amazon, hence the bump. I will gave precisely one mint copy available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
