Description:
Arkham House Imprints, Mid-20th Century, Thirty Titles. Including: Asquith's This Mortal Coil; Blackwood's The Doll; Bishop's The Curse of Yig; Bloch's The Opener of the Way; Bloch's Pleasant Dreams; Brennan's Nine Horrors; Coppard's Fearful Pleasures; Dunsany's The Fourth Book of Jorkens; Grendon's Mr. George and Other Odd Persons; Hartley's The Travelling Grave; Jacobi's Revelations in Black; La Spina's Invaders from the Dark; Le Fanu's Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories; Leiber's Night's Black Agents; Long's The Hounds of Tindalos; Metcalfe's The Feasting Dead; Seabury Quinn's Roads; Smith's Genius Loci; Smith's Lost World; Smith's Out of Space and Time; Smith's The Abominations of Yondo; Van Vogt's Slan; Wakefield's The Clock Strikes Twelve; Wakefield's Strayers from Sheol; Walton's Witch House; Wandrei's The Eye and the Finger; Wandrei's The Web of Easter Island; Whitehead's Jumbee; Whitehead's West India Lights; and Wright's The Throne of Saturn; all in publisher's cloth and very good jackets with only minor condition issues. (30)
Estimate $300-500
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