Keep Light by Thomson (10 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Scarce collection of spooky stories, most from 'Weird Tales'. Undated, circa 1930s. Includes the first book appearance of Robert E. Howard's "Worms of the Earth." Small 8vo, 254pp. Hardcover, bound in original red boards with black stamed title to front cover. Newly recased in black cloth, with new endpapers added, original red title-label relaid on spine. In very good condition. Firm binding and crisp, unmarked, interior. Uniform light tanning to paper throughout. Some pages oddly cut, with narrow or crooked margins, but never affecting contents. Overall, a nice copy of an uncommon book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. POSSIBLE FIRST, NO DATE COVERS CLEAN AND SOUND. SPINE HEAVY SOIL, INTERNALLY CLEAN AND SOUND.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Boards (HB) in very good minus condition, slight cock to book, browning to inner covers, 3 chips to page edges as well as 1 tiny corner missing and 1 tiny enclosed tear to last page. Dust jacket in very good minus condition with rubbing to edges, 1 tiny hole in spine and rubs to edge of back cover and spine.A significant volume as it has the first book appearance of the Robert E. Howard's Worms of the Earth (his second story to be published in a book). Authors include Hester Gaskell Holland, Oscar Cook, Henry S. Whitehead, Robert E. Howard-Worms of the Earth, Flavia Richardson (pseudonym of C.C. Thomson), Bassett Morgan, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, J. Dyott Matthews, J.D. Kerruish, Warden Ledge, Don C. Wiley, Guy Preston, Hugh B. Cave, Rosalie Muspratt and Clark Ashton Smith. 254 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An uncommon book, particularly in jacket. Ninth in the Not At Night Series. Collects fifteen stories. Fading to spine and cracking to hinge but still a sound copy in a very decent jacket. First book appearance of Robert Howard's Worms of the Earth.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Rehinged, library tape on spine and spinemost; A rare collection of spooky tales, including Robert E. Howard's "Worms of the Earth." ; 8vo; 254 pages Good+ inch of covers. Pages yellowed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Publishers oatmeal cloth, titles in brown. Volume 9 in the famous NOT AT NIGHT series. Small bookseller ticket to title page, light foxing to prelims else a nice tight copy, free of any former owner marking. Includes the first book publication of Robert E Howard's WORMS OF THE EARTH & Clark Ashton Smith's ISLE OF THE TORTURERS both of which earlier appeared in Weird Tales magazine. This copy is notable as it still retains a reasonably attractive original dust wrapper. Spine panel tanned with small chips, rear panel shows age tanning, illustrated front panel is well preserved with lurid artwork in shades of blue & red.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-. The ninth instalment in the NotatNight series assembles fifteen dark tales. The anthology opens with OscarCook's 'His Beautiful Hands' and includes stories by HenryS.Whitehead, MaryElizabethCounselman and ClarkAshtonSmith. Its most notable entry is RobertE.Howard's historical horror tale 'WormsoftheEarth', which appears here in its first book form. Some foxing; jacket with slight foxing and rubbing, but overall very good. Book.

Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-254 [255-256: blank] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and endpaper; last leaf is a blank used as rear paste-down], original light gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing. Collects fifteen stories by Henry S. Whitehead, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Jessie D. Kerruish, Hugh B. Cave, Clark Ashton Smith and others, some first published in WEIRD TALES. Includes the first book appearance of "Worms of the Earth" by Robert E. Howard, first published in WEIRD TALES in November 1932. This was Howard's second story to be published in a book (the first appeared in 1932 in GRIM DEATH, an earlier volume in this series) and preceded publication of his first book by four years. The ninth volume in the important "Not at Night" anthology series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1593. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-301. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Reginald 14081. A fine copy in good pictorial dust jacket (priced "2/-" on spine panel and listing only the books in the series through this title on rear panel) with with wear along top and bottom edges, several short closed tears along top edge, and dust soiling to spine and rear panels. Scarce in jacket. A nice copy of this cheaply made book. (#157565).

First edition, first printing. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-254 [255-256: blank] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and endpaper; last leaf is a blank used as rear paste-down], cloth. Collects fifteen stories. A significant volume as it has the first book appearance of the Robert E. Howard's Worms of the Earth (his second story to be published in a book). Authors include Hester Gaskell Holland, Oscar Cook, Henry S. Whitehead, Robert E. Howard-Worms of the Earth, Flavia Richardson (pseudonym of C.C. Thomson), Bassett Morgan, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, J. Dyott Matthews, J.D. Kerruish, Warden Ledge, Don C. Wiley, Guy Preston, Hugh B. Cave, Rosalie Muspratt and Clark Ashton Smith. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1593. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-301. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Reginald 14081]. Penciled name and date to front paste down, cheap text paper moderately tanned, mild darkening to spine and upper and right front edges, a very good copy in a good dust jacket, priced 2/-, with wear at corner tips and a small closed tear to upper front panel, chipping with loss at head of spine panel, closed tears along fold edges, small chip at mid spine next to rear fold, small chip at lower spine panel. (28411).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 254 pages. oatmeal coloured cloth, lettering in black, front endpapers, rear pastedown and last page of text slightly tanned and foxed, no rear endpaper present as published, name to front endpaper in ink, otherwise a Very Good copy in VG d/w which is tanned to spine, missing a small section from middle of the spine, some small closed tears along edges, some loss and tears at top edge of spine, some age darkening to lower panel, otherwise a nice example of this scarce d/w. priced at 2 shillings. Tales of Thrill?and Horror Selected and Arranged By Christine Campbell Thomson. First edition., London, Selwyn & Blount, [1933], This is No 9 in the Famous Not At Night Series of books.