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HARLAN ELLISON: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST. Williams Publishing Co., Dallas, 1973. First Edition. Signed by the subject.

By: (ELLISON, Harlan) SWIGART, Leslie Kay

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Dallas, Williams Publishing Co.: 1973

Seller ID: 142

An excellent bibliography of the noted SF writer's work up until 1973. Fully illustrated with book cover reproductions, photographs of the subject and pieces from his collection. In addition is a brief but fact-filled biography of the author by Swigart; appreciations of Ellison by Asimov, Bova, Ed Bryant, Silverberg, Joanna Russ, and James Sutherland. 120 pages, including self-covers, oversized paper-bound, printed upon good paper in an edition of 1000 numbered copies. Despite the 1000 copy print-run, an elusive Ellison item. Although not called for, this copy is signed, inscribed by Ellis...
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THE LUCKY BAG OF 1929 The Annual of the Regiment of Midshipmen, US NAVAL ACADEMY.

By: (HEINLEIN, Robert A.)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Annapolis, MD, US Naval Academy: 1929

Seller ID: 679

The Naval Academy at Annapolis, graduating class of 1929, of which Robert A. Heinlein was a member. A young, Heinlein is accorded a handsome photograph and writeup listing his fields of expertise. Heinlein ranked Expert Rifleman, and was a medal winning Epee, fencer. A unique addition to the Heinlein completist. A large heavy book in good condition.
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THE FOSSIL. Vol. 57, No. 164. January, 1960.

By: (LOVECRAFT, H.P.) H.C. KOENIG

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Yokohama, Japan, Sheldon Wesson:

Seller ID: 893

The death of Herman C. Koenig at the previous May at age 65, of heart failuer, is noted in a biography of a column-and a quarter, by Edward H. Cole. HPL is mentioned briefly. Koenig was an avid collector of supernatural fiction and horror books, long before it was an established pastime, and it was Koenig who introduced H.P. Lovecraft to the more serious of Hodgson's fiction—The House on the Borderland, and The Night Land, which prompted HPL to append Hodgson to his ever essay—Supernatural Fiction in Literature. Printed in English; Sheldon Wesson happened to be stationed in Japan ...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, 1981. Signed by Joshi.

By: (LOVECRAFT, H.P.) JOSHI, S.T.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 580

For decades the defining biblopgraphy by the most noted Lovecraft scholar of our time. Signed by the author on the title-page. Issued w/o d.j. A very good+, copy with a touch of wear at tips.
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A CATALOG OF LOVECRAFTIANA. (500 hardbound, numbered copies).

By: (LOVECRAFT, H.P.) Mark Owens & Irving Binkin

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Mirage Press: 1975

Seller ID: 899

A bibliographically annotated catalogue of the fabulous Lovecraft collection of Philip Jack Grill, as presented in seventy pages of material, numbering 668 items, along with eighteen pages of black and white photographs reproduced upon slick paper. One of the greatest Lovecraft collections ever accumulated. Just fascinating to see photos of some of this very rare material, especially the Amateur Journal material. A browsers banquet. One of 500 hardbound copies, issued w/o d.j. A fine copy.
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DIVINE INVASIONS: A Life of Philip K. Dick. Harmony Books, New York, 1989. First Edition.

By: (PHILIP K. DICK) SUTIN, Lawrence

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harmony Books: 1989

Seller ID: 163

The first biography of a great writer, a very complex man, and an emotionally unstable personality—and I do not mean that in a negative way—because I knew him, and I was very fond of him— but only as an honest observer. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A little rubbing to d.j., else a fine unread copy.
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FANTASMS: A Jack Vance Bibliography

By: (VANCE, Jack)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: San Francisco/Columbia, PA., Underwood-Miller: 1978

Seller ID: 536

An excellent bibliography listing more than 150 items illustrated with very helpful photographs. One of 100 hardbound copies. A fine copy.
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A MEANS TO FREEDOM. Vols. I & II. Hippocampus Press, N.Y., 2009. First edition . [300 hardbound copies printed]. The HPL/REH Correspondence.

By: HOWARD, Robert E., LOVECRAFT, H.P.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Hippocampus Press: 2009

Seller ID: 674

An epistolary correspondence from 1930 until May, 1936, between two of the major authors of Fantasy & SF—Robert E. Howard and Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Nearly 1000 pages of their letters are reproduced in print within these two volumes. The letters are longer than many of their stories and is not idle chit-chat, but intellectual repartie of the highest order. It's as if they were both challenging each other. Edited by HPL authorities, S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, and Robert E. Howard expert, Rusty Burke. Only 300 sets of this hardbound first edition was published. As new, still in...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT: A LIFE

By: JOSHI, S.T.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: West Warwick, R.I., Necronomicon Press: 1996

Seller ID: 905

The second biography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, this Herculean undertaking by S.T. Joshi exhumes incredible minutae of HPL's life and times, and may be dense reading for many; you could term L. Sprague de Campt's biography as a general introduction to the man, whereas Joshi gets inside HPL's skin with a surgeon's skills.This hardbound edition of 250 copies, signed by the author, was sold out before publication. With the addition of new HPL discoveries, this biography was expanded by Joshi and published in a two-volume set by Hippocampus Press, but this single volume contains all the mea...
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THE THING'S INCREDIBLE! The Secret Origins of WEIRD TALES—Signed by the author.

By: LOCKE, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Elkhorn, Calif., Off-Trail Publications: 2018

Seller ID: 733

The origins, history, and demise of WEIRD TALES—The Unique Magazine, are brought to light, by pulp expert, John Locke, sixty-five years after W.T., ceased publication. Scholarly researched with 600 citations, yet written in a pulp-paced style, as Locke details: How did W.T., begin? Why did it fail? What became of Jacob Clark Henneberger and John William Lansinger, the co-founders of W.T? How did Farnsworth Wright become editor? And what about H.P. Lovecraft, W.T., favorite son? Many revelations! New, hardbound. Issued w/o d.j.
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TO QUEBEC AND THE STARS. Donald M. Grant, West Kingston, RI., 1976. First Edition.

By: LOVECRAFT, H.P. (de Camp, L. Sprague, editor.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: West Kingston, RI., Donald M. Grant,: 1976.

Seller ID: 853

An oversized, handsome presentation of seventeen of H.P. Lovecraft's most notable non-fiction essays. The essays are catagoried under the headers: SCIENCE, LITERATURE & ESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY, and TRAVEL, DESCRIPTION and HISTORY. Edited, and with an introduction by L. Sprague de Camp, the book is footnoted with 115 entries by de Camp and M. Louis Pare—the Director General of Tourism in Quebec. A dust-wrapper illustration by Robert McIntyre would've pleased HPL immensly, I think. [2200 copies printed.] As new, still in shrink-wrap.
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CATALOG 19: SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY: Philip K. Dick & Friends, Smith & Lovecraft & Leiber and All

By: SQUIRES, Roy A.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Glendale, Calif., Roy A. Squires: 1985

Seller ID: 162

Catalog 19 is comprised of forty-pages. Highlishts include a large collection of rare, signed books and manuscripts by PHILIP K. DICK from the collection of TIM POWERS—DICK had died just three years previously. Seven pages of HPL materials including letters. A fine copy.
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