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240 pp. Illustrated by Hannes Bok. 8vo, publisher's cloth in illustrated dust jacket. First edition; No. 232 of 500 numbered copies (total edition 3,000). A fine copy in a jacket with a sunned spine and light use at extremities; rear panel lightly dust-soiled.

Condizione: Very Good. New York: Weird Tales, 1953. Pulp magazine. Octavo; 96pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Shallow chips and tears along top and bottom edges, with some rubbing and creasing at corners and some smudging and toning to surface. Nearly 1" chip at tail with partial loss to price. Pages toned with a few short, closed tears in fore-edge margins, none touching text. Binding is sound. Contains August Derleth's novelette The House in the Valley," Richard Matheson's novelette Slaughter House," Lyn Venable's "The Missing Room," Nictzin Dyalhis's novelette The Sea-Witch, and others. Illustrations by Hannes Bok, Virgil Finlay, Joseph Eberle, and others.

Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); 336pp. Hannes Bok-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; bound in black cloth with red lettering. Jacket shows light rubbing at extremities and folds and a slightly sunned spine. Adhesive staining to verso of front cover. Boards nudged at corners and spine ends. A tear to page 15 and glue to the gutter of final page but binding is secure. Some offsetting to endpapers. Pages unmarked. Signed by the author without dedication on front free endpaper. A Very Good or better copy overall of Mullen's world of fighting lizard-folk and battle-ready wizards. [Bleiler Supernatural 1204].

Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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.