Arkham House : $b The first 20 years; 1939-1959Derleth, August
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Arkham House : $b The first 20 years; 1939-1959
Derleth, August
Arkham House -- Bibliography; Arkham House -- History; Publishers and publishing -- United States
THE TRAVELLING GRAVE AND OTHER STORIES, by L. P. Hartley. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 235. $3.00. 2,047 copies
printed. Contents: _A Visitor from Down Under_ / _Podolo_ / _Three, or
Four, for Dinner_ / _The Travelling Grave_ / _Feet Foremost_ / _The
Cotillon_ / _A Change of Ownership_ / _The Thought_ / _Conrad and the
Dragon_ / _The Island_ / _Night Fears_ / _The Killing Bottle_.
THE WEB OF EASTER ISLAND, by Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 191. $3.00. 3,068 copies printed.
THE FOURTH BOOK OF JORKENS, by Lord Dunsany. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 194. $3.00. 3,118 copies printed. Contents:
_Making Fine Weather_ / _Mgamu_ /_The Haunting of Halahanstown_ / _The
Pale-Green Image_ / _Jorkens Leaves Prison_ / _The Warning_ / _The
Sacred City of Krakovlitz_ / _Jorkens Practises Medicine and Magic_ /
_Jarton’s Disease_ / _On the Other Side of the Sun_ / _The Rebuff_ /
_Jorkens’ Ride_ / _The Secret of the Sphinx_ / _The Khamseen_ / _The
Expulsion_ / _The Welcome_ / _By Command of Pharaoh_ / _A Cricket
Problem_ / _A Life’s Work_ / _The Ingratiating Smile_ / _The Last
Bull_ / _The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber_ / _A Deal with the Devil_ /
_Strategy at the Billiards Club_ / _Jorkens in Witch Wood_ / _Lost_ /
_The English Magnifico_ / _The Cleverness of Dr. Caber_ / _Fairy Gold_
/ _A Royal Dinner_ / _A Fight with Knives_ / _Out West_ / _In a Dim
Room_.
ROADS, by Seabury Quinn. With Illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 110. $2.00. 2,137 copies
printed.
GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 228. $3.00. 3,047 copies printed. Contents:
_Genius Loci_ / _The Willow Landscape_ / _The Ninth Skeleton_ /
_The Phantoms of the Fire_ / _The Eternal World_ / _Vulthoom_ / _A
Star-Change_ / _The Primal City_ / _The Disinterment of Venus_ / _The
Colossus of Ylourgne_ / _The Satyr_ / _The Garden of Adompha_ / _The
Charnel God_ / _The Black Abbot of Puthuum_ / _The Weaver in the
Vault_.
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1948. pp. x., 221. $3.00. 2,067 copies printed. Contents:
_Foreword_ / _The Shadow on the Sky_ / _Birkett’s Twelfth Corpse_ /
_The White Moth_ / _Nellie Foster_ / _Wild Grapes_ / _Feigman’s Beard_
/ _The Drifting Snow_ / _The Return of Sarah Purcell_ / _Logoda’s
Heads_ / _The Second Print_ / _Mrs. Elting Does Her Part_ / _A Little
Knowledge_ / _Mrs. Bentley’s Daughter_ / _Those Who Seek_ / _Mr.
Berbeck Had a Dream_ / _The Tenant_ / _The Lilac Bush_ / “_Just a
Song at Twilight_” / _A Matter of Sight_ / _Prince Borgia’s Mass_ /
_A Dinner at Imola_ / _Lesandro’s Familiar_ / _The Bridge of Sighs_
/ _A Cloak from Messer Lando_ / _He Shall Come_ / _Mrs. Lannisfree_
/ _After You, Mr. Henderson_ / _Baynter’s Imp_ / _The Lost Day_ / _A
Collector of Stones_ / _The God-Box_ / _Saunder’s Little Friend_.
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