{"id":24851,"date":"2025-04-16T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24851"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:44:31","slug":"library-additions-four-mostly-robert-e-howard-chapbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24851","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Four (Mostly) Robert E. Howard Chapbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Facebook was selling off the collection of an Arkham House\/<i>Weird Tales<\/i> collector, and he had some Robert E. Howard chapbooks I pulled the trigger on.<\/p>\n<li>Howard, Robert E. <b>The Complete Yellow Jacket<\/b>. Paul Herman, 1999. First edition chapbook original, #80 of 100 copies, a Fine copy. Collection of Howard&#8217;s work that appeared in <i>The Yellow Jacket<\/i>, the school paper for Howard Payne University.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Complete-Yellow-Jacket-652x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"707\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Complete-Yellow-Jacket-652x1024.png 652w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Complete-Yellow-Jacket-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Complete-Yellow-Jacket-768x1207.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Complete-Yellow-Jacket.png 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Howard, Robert E. <b>Pay Day<\/b>. Cryptic Publications, 1986. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy. Eight extremely short stories. Editor Robert M. Price: &#8220;These tales represent Howard&#8217;s attempt to write &#8216;realistic&#8217; fiction.&#8221;\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Pay-Day-661x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"697\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Pay-Day-661x1024.png 661w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Pay-Day-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Pay-Day-768x1190.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Pay-Day.png 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Howard, Robert E. <b>Two-Fisted Detective<\/b>. Cryptic Publications, 1984. First edition chapbook original, one of 450 unsigned, unnumbered copies, a Fine- copy with slight bit of wear to the spine. Four stories featuring Detective Steve Harris.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Two-Fisted-Detective-630x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"731\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Two-Fisted-Detective-630x1024.png 630w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Two-Fisted-Detective-184x300.png 184w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Two-Fisted-Detective-768x1249.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Howard-Two-Fisted-Detective.png 1044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Price, Robert M., editor. <b>Two-Fisted Detective Stories Volume 2<\/b>. Cryptic Publications, 1988. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy. Anthology of detective stories, including stories from Manly Wade Wellman (&#8220;Murder Music,&#8221; which doesn&#8217;t appear to be in the five volume <b>Selected Stories<\/b>), Robert Bloch (&#8220;The Knife and the Throat,&#8221; which doesn&#8217;t appear to have been reprinted in any Bloch collections), Lin Carter and C.J. Henderson.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Price-Two-Fisted-Detective-2-668x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"690\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Price-Two-Fisted-Detective-2-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Price-Two-Fisted-Detective-2-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Price-Two-Fisted-Detective-2-768x1178.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Price-Two-Fisted-Detective-2.png 1069w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p>All the above bought for $80. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Facebook was selling off the collection of an Arkham House\/Weird Tales collector, and he had some Robert E. Howard chapbooks I pulled the trigger on. Howard, Robert E. The Complete Yellow Jacket. Paul Herman, 1999. First edition chapbook original, #80 of 100 copies, a Fine copy. Collection of Howard&#8217;s work that appeared in [&hellip;]<\/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":[1973,1143,1983,88,409,165,44],"class_list":["post-24851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-books","tag-chapbooks","tag-fantasy","tag-manly-wade-wellman","tag-mystery","tag-robert-bloch","tag-robert-e-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851","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=24851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24881,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions\/24881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}