Keep Light by Thomson: First Edition (7 results)
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Language: English
Published by Selwyn & Blount, Ltd, London, England, 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.David Gaines
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket 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 t…o 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.
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Language: English
Published by Selwyn & Blount, London, 1933
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- First Edition
Seller: Tim's Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.Tim's Books
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US$ 600.00
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.
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Published by Selwyn & Blount, London, 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United KingdomLycanthia Rare Books
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US$ 1,100.18
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.Whi…tehead, 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.
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Published by Selwyn & Blount Ltd, London, 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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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 Coun…selman, 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).
Published by Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., n.d. [1933], London, 1933
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- First Edition
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Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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).
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Keep on the Light. Tales of thrill and horror selected and arranged by Christine Campbell Thomson.
Howard, Robert E; Morgan, Bassett; Counselman, Mary Elisabeth, et al. Thomson, Christine Campbell (ed.).
Published by London; Selwyn & Blunt Ltd., [1933]., 1933
- First Edition
Seller: Keel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA., Whitley Bay, United KingdomKeel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA.
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US$ 130.65
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Add to basketOctavo, pp., 254. Publisher's original oatmeal-coloured cloth, titled in black to spine and upper board. Lacks the scarce jacket. Hinge cracked, text-block shaken, spots of soiling to boards, spine very slightly sunned. Contents toned to edges but generally neat. A good copy. A scarce collection of supernatural short stories, th…e ninth in the 'Not at Night' series printed between 1925 and 1937. This volumes includes the first appearance of Robert E. Howard's 'Worms of the Earth' (the second of his stories to be published in book form). Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1593.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United KingdomLycanthia Rare Books
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US$ 818.26
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.
