First edition, hardcover, has a light lean to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and mild shelf wear to the cover edges. Otherwise, this is a solid, Very Good copy in a like dust jacket, which has bumps with light creasing and a touch of peeling to the spine ends, slight wear to the cover edges and corners, and some rubbing to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.
Sauk City: Arkham House:, 2001. First edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, 423 pp. Cover artwork by: Eric Carlson Modest spine skew and with half-inch closed tear to lower tip of front panel of the jacket. First edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket,
First edition stated, one of four thousand copies printed. Hardcover in black cloth. Introduction by Jack Williamson. A very fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. xi+423 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. Over a span of some 60 years, E. Hoffman Price, a prolific writer during the great pulp magazine ficiton era, befriended many of the great and near-great colleagues of the profession---writed like Lovecraft, Derleth, Williamson, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and many more. Here he offers a series of 19 biographical essays based on his vast correcpondence, diaries, and records kept of his many cross-country motor trips. Alos mincluded are additional essays about Price, a bibliography of his fiction and a photo gallery.
Sauk City, Wis: Arkham House, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition stated, one of four thousand copies printed. Hardcover in black cloth. Introduction by Jack Williamson. A very fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. xi+423 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. Over a span of some 60 years, E. Hoffman Price, a prolific writer during the great pulp magazine ficiton era, befriended many of the great and near-great colleagues of the profession---writed like Lovecraft, Derleth, Williamson, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and many more. Here he offers a series of 19 biographical essays based on his vast correcpondence, diaries, and records kept of his many cross-country motor trips. Alos mincluded are additional essays about Price, a bibliography of his fiction and a photo gallery.
BOOK OF THE DEAD: FRIENDS OF YESTERYEAR: FICTIONEERS & OTHERS (MEMORIES OF THE PULP FICTION ERA) . With an Introduction by Jack Williamson. Edited by Peter Ruber
Price, E. Hoffmann
BOOK OF THE DEAD: FRIENDS OF YESTERYEAR: FICTIONEERS & OTHERS (MEMORIES OF THE PULP FICTION ERA) . With an Introduction by Jack Williamson. Edited by Peter Ruber
Octavo, cloth. First edition. Biographical sketches of Farnsworth Wright, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and others, plus essays by and about Price and a bibliography of his fiction. 4000 copies printed. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#160117)
First edition stated, one of four thousand copies printed. Hardcover in black cloth. Introduction by Jack Williamson. A very fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. xi+423 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. Over a span of some 60 years, E. Hoffman Price, a prolific writer during the great pulp magazine ficiton era, befriended many of the great and near-great colleagues of the profession---writed like Lovecraft, Derleth, Williamson, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and many more. Here he offers a series of 19 biographical essays based on his vast correcpondence, diaries, and records kept of his many cross-country motor trips. Alos mincluded are additional essays about Price, a bibliography of his fiction and a photo gallery.
fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper 1st edition. During a writing career lasting nearly seven decades, E. Hoffman Price formed lasting friendships with many of the great and near-great fictioneers, editors and artists of his day.
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