{"id":24694,"date":"2025-03-06T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24694"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:59:54","slug":"library-additions-four-robert-e-howard-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24694","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Four Robert E. Howard Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"

More from that large Robert E. Howard purchase<\/a>, three from Donald M. Grant:<\/p>\n

  • Howard, Robert E. Black Vulmea’s Vengence<\/b>. Donald M. Grant, 1976. First edition hardback, a Fine-\/Fine- copy with trace of wear at head, heel and points. Pirate stories. Currey, page 248. Chalker\/Owings, page 218.\n

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  • Howard, Robert E. Echoes from an Iron Harp<\/b>. Donald M. Grant, 1972. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with trace of wear at head, heel and point in a Fine- dust jacket with trace of wear at head, heel and points and trace of dust soiling to white rear panel. Howard’s third poetry collection. Lord, The Last Celt<\/b>, page 129. Chalker\/Owings, page 217.\n

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  • Howard, Robert E. The Hour of the Dragon<\/b>. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977. First hardback edition thus (no statement of printing, as per Currey, and “7711” date on flap, as per ISFDB), “The Authorized Edition” of the Conan novel Conan the Conqueror<\/b> edited by Karl Edward Wagner (and weirdly, the paperback edition precedes by a couple of months), a Fine-\/Fine- copy with a trace of bumping at points. Currey, page 250, who notes “Follows the text of the five-part serial appearing in Weird Tales<\/i>.” Supplements a copy of the Gnome Press first of Conan the Conqueror<\/b>.\n

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  • Howard, Robert E. The Pride of Bear Creek<\/b>. Donald M. Grant, 1966. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with previous owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper and a tiny dust print at heel, in a Fine- dust jacket with a few small nicks to front panel near bottom edge. The second collection of Breckenridge Elkins stories. Supplements a copy of the 1977 Grant edition. Lord, The Last Celt<\/b>, page 117. Currey, page 251. Chalker\/Owings, page 216. (There was another Bear Creek<\/b> book in this lot, but the condition was too poor to add it to my library.)\n

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    More from that large Robert E. Howard purchase, three from Donald M. Grant: Howard, Robert E. Black Vulmea’s Vengence. Donald M. Grant, 1976. First edition hardback, a Fine-\/Fine- copy with trace of wear at head, heel and points. Pirate stories. Currey, page 248. Chalker\/Owings, page 218. Howard, Robert E. Echoes from an Iron Harp. Donald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[1973,2599,1038,1983,2754,243,44,499,464],"class_list":["post-24694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-books","tag-conan","tag-donald-m-grant","tag-fantasy","tag-pirates","tag-poetry","tag-robert-e-howard","tag-small-press-publishers","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24725,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694\/revisions\/24725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}