Published by Future Publications, NY, 1953
Magazine / Periodical
SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 1, No. 1. Edited by Lester del Rey. Cover art by Hannes Bok. Includes "The Black Stranger" (novel; Conan series) by Robert E. Howard (& L. Sprague de Camp); "Ashtaru the Terrible" (novelette) by Poul Anderson; "Dragon Fires" (novelette) by Steve Frazee; "Too Gloomy for Private Pushkin" by Richard Deming; "The Demons" by Robert Sheckley; "Feeding Time" by Finn O'Donnevan (Sheckley); "The Night Shift" by Frank Robinson. Features: "Editorial: Things That Go Foomp"; Book Reviews"; "The Crystall Ball." Illustrated by Berwin, Ebel, Emsh, Freas, Orban, and Smith. Creasing; bumps and dings; chips; wear at spine ends. Book.
Published by Avon Books, 1947
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. AVON FANTASY READER, Avon Books, 1947 thru 1952, first edition, 18 volumes complete, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps. Contributions by Robert E. Howard, Gelett Burgess, William Hope Hodgson, Hugh Cave, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Lucas White, James Francis Dwyer, G. K. Chesterton, Frank Owen, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Bond, E. Hoffman Price, H. P. Lovecraft, Sax Rohmer, Manly Wade Wellman, M. R. James, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn, Francis Flagg, Doanld Wollheim, Malcolm Jameson, Amelia Reynolds Long, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Ambrose Bierce, C. L. Moore, Abraham Merritt, Frank Belknap Long, David Keller, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, Henry S. Whitehead, Carl Jacobi, William F. Harvey, C. M. Kornbluth, S. Fowler Wright, Murray Leinster, August Derleth, H. G. Wells, H. R. Wakefield, et.al. Along with AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER, all 3 volumes, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps.
Amsterdam, W & L Boeken, 1983-1984 (eerstgenoemde 4 delen, complete set bij deze uitgever)/ 's-Gravenhage, Gradivus, 1982/ Rotterdam, Scala, 1977, paperbacks. = Alle delen in goede, gelezen staat.
Seller: Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers, Nieuwerbrug, Netherlands
West KIngston, Donald M. Grant, 1974-1979, 9 vols. (= complete?), (colour-)illustrated by (in random order) George Barr, Dean Morrissey, Richard Robertson, David Ireland, Alicia Austin, Marcus Boas, Ned Dameron, Dan Green, Michael R. Hague, printed in a limited edition, original unif. gilt clothbacked boards with illustrated dustjacket, large octavo. = Rare extensive (complete?) set. We also hold the uniformly publihed 11 volume collected Conan the Barbarian edition. Some dustjackets partly affected by silverfish. A few volumes w. dampstains on first endpapers. Still a nice set.