Posts Tagged ‘small press publishers’
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Six Joe R. Lansdale-related items bought from three different sources.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice and Joe R. Lansdale. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure: Book One. Dark Horse, 1995. First edition trade paperback graphic novel (I assume it’s a first edition, as I see no additional printing listed), a Fine copy. First of four issues of a Tarzan novel started by Burroughs and completed by Lansdale. These are more illustrated chapters rather than an actual graphic novel. Isajanko, A016.a. Supplements the later hardback first edition.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice and Joe R. Lansdale. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure: Book Two. Dark Horse, 1995. First edition trade paperback graphic novel (no additional printing listed), a Fine- copy with slight edgewear. Second of four issues of a Tarzan novel started by Burroughs and completed by Lansdale. Isajanko, A016.a.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice and Joe R. Lansdale. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure: Book three. Dark Horse, 1995. First edition trade paperback graphic novel (no additional printing listed), a Fine copy. Third of four issues of a Tarzan novel started by Burroughs and completed by Lansdale. Isajanko, A016.a.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice and Joe R. Lansdale. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure: Book Four. Dark Horse, 1995. First edition trade paperback graphic novel (no additional printing listed), a Near Fine- copy with slight edgewear, thin crease to front middle near spine, and thin crease running down front cover near spine. Fourth of four issues of a Tarzan novel started by Burroughs and completed by Lansdale. Isajanko, A016.a. All four of these bought from that Facebook seller for $15.
Ferris, John, Stephen Gallagher and Joe R. Lansdale. Night Visions 8. Dark Harvest, 1990. First edition hardback, #491 of 600 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine-, Mylar-protected dust jacket with a trace of edgewear at bottom rear, in a Fine slipcase. The second to last Dark Harvest volume of the original Night Visions anthology series, each volume of which includes original stories from three writers. Supplements a trade edition signed by Lansdale (I have all 12 volumes, including the three done by Subterranean). Bought for $30, a substantial discount off the original $55 price.
Note: The white streak at upper right is dust jacket glare.
Tags:Books, Dark Harvest, Dark Horse, graphic novel, Horror, Joe R. Lansdale, Pandi Press, small press publishers, Tarzan
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Thursday, September 4th, 2025
Another purchase from that Facebook seller.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) S. T. Joshi, editor. Primal Sources: Essays on Lovecraft. Hippocampus Press, 2003. First edition trade paperback original (stated, though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine- copy with first page slightly dog-eared at bottom. Joshi essays on various Lovecraftian topics. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography III-C-65. Joshi, 200 Books by S. T. Joshi, I.23. Bought for $10.
Tags:Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus Press, Horror, S. T. Joshi, small press publishers
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
Another purchase from that Facebook seller:
Shirley, John. Lovecraft Alive!. Hippocampus Press, 2016. First edition trade paperback original (stated, though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Collection of Shirley’s Lovecraftian stories. Bought for $10.
Tags:Books, Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus Press, Horror, John Shirley, small press publishers
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Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Three more books from that Facebook seller:
(Howard, Robert E.) Derie, Bobby. Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Other. Hippocampus Press, 2019. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Bought for $5.
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Mariconda, Steven J. H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality. Hippocampus Press, 2013. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Near Fine+ copy with a trace of light staining to page block edges and few light spots of staining to first few pages, and a trace of wear at points. Bought for $10.
Smith, Clark Ashton, and George Sterling (David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, editors). The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith. Hippocampus Press, 2019. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Sterling was the California poet who mentored and championed the work of the young Clark Ashton Smith. Bought for $10.
I’m pretty good at picking up the Hippocampus Press hardbacks before the sell out, but I don’t pick up every trade paperback on publication (and when I do pick them up, they tend to hang around in Lame Excuse Books stock). These were all at good prices.
Tags:Books, Clark Ashton Smith, David E. Schultz, Fantasy, George Sterling, H. P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus Press, Horror, Print-on-Demand, Robert E. Howard, S. T. Joshi, small press publishers, Weird Tales
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Another Borderlands Little Book:
Nesbit, Edith. A Little Fuchsia Book of Fantasy. Borderlands Press, 2025. First edition hardback, #463 of 350 numbered copies (Borderlands: “we only print 350 copies but if anyone has matching numbers above 350, we make sure they continue to get it”) signed by editor Hal Bodner, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Ten stories (including retellings of Hamlet and Macbeth) from an English author better known for children’s books.
I will have a small number of copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (probably November December).
Tags:Books, Borderlands Press, Fantasy, small press publishers
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2025
Bought off eBay at a bargain price:
(Gaiman, Neil) Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden and Stephen R. Bissette. The Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman. Cemetery Dance, 2015. First edition thus (the trade edition precedes by seven years), one of 1000 copies signed by the three authors (not by Gaiman), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Critical companion to Gaiman’s work. Bought off eBay for an offer of $10, a considerable discount from the publication price of $75.
Tags:Books, Cemetery Dance, Christopher Golden, eBay, Fantasy, Limited Editions, Neil Gaiman, science fiction criticism, small press publishers, Stephen R. Bissette
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
The last item of the three bought with those Robert E. Howard Foundation books.
Howard, Robert E. Writer of the Dark. Dark Carneval Press, 1986. First edition oversized 11 1/2″ x 8 3/8″ trade paperback original, #111 of 500 copies, a Near Fine copy with light streak of dampstaining to pageblock edges, slight dampstaining dye transfer from covers to first and last pages, just the start of a spine crease, and a touch of edgewear to covers. Collection of poetry and fiction.
(The size of the cover is so large I had to crank down the quality of the image to get Word Press to accept it.)
Tags:Books, Fantasy, Horror, Robert E. Howard, small press publishers
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Monday, June 30th, 2025
Two more books from that Facebook estate seller I’ve bought previous REH Foundation Press books from.
Howard, Robert E. Sentiment: An Olio Rarer Works. Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, 2009. First edition hardback, #63 of 150 hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a trace of edgewear at head. Hefty 583 page collection of Howard’s rarer works, including some never meant for publication. Edited by Bob Roehm. Introduction by Mark Finn.
Howard, Robert E. Swords of the North. Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, 2009. First edition hardback, #118 of 200 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight wrinkling at head and slight edgewear at heel. “Featuring Viking Stories, Celtic Adventures, Drafts and Fragments.” Edited by Bob Roehm. Introduction by Rusty Burke.
Both of these, and one other item I need to catalog and post here, were $150, including shipping.
Tags:Books, Fantasy, Limited Editions, Mark Finn, Robert E. Howard, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, small press publishers
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
Another Borderland Little Book:
Baring-Gould, Sabine (John Maclay, editor). A Little Gray Book of Gloom. Borderlands Press, 2025. First edition hardback, #462 of 350 signed numbered copies (Borderlands: “we only print 350 copies but if anyone has matching numbers above 350, we make sure they continue to get it”), a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Collection of ghost stories from this extremely prolific late 19th/early 20th century clergyman and writer who penned the lyrics to “Onward Christian Soldiers.”
I will have a small number of copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
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Monday, June 16th, 2025
The latest volume in Charnel House ongoing prestige limited edition of all Tim Powers’ novels.
Powers, Tim. Dinner at Deviant’s Palace. Charnel House, 2025. First limited edition thus, #56 of 99 numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, with cardstock ad for limited edition art print of Powers’ own interpretation of Deviant’s Palace laid in. Post-apocalytic science fiction novel that won the Philip K. Dick Award. Already sold out from the publisher.
I will have one copy of this available for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, probably in November.
Tags:Books, Charnel House, Science Fiction, small press publishers, Tim Powers
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