Keep Light by Thomson: First Edition (5 results)

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.…

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).…

Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. London: Selwyn & Blount, [1933]. Presumed first edition with no additional printings indicated. Octavo (18cm); red boards with black stamping; 254pp. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly bumped. Former owner appears to have used a black marker to trace a blind-stamped border at front panel. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned. Very Good or better installment in Thomson's Not at Night anthology series. .…

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.…