The House on the Borderland
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Very Good / Very Good. Item #49303
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First American Edition. 3014 copies printed (3000 stated). Tall octavo; publisher's cloth in Hannes Bok-illustrated dust jacket with original $5.00 price; xi,[1],639pp. Boards show light shelfwear and bumping to corners; binding sound; previous owner's bookplate and personal library sticker to preliminaries. Creasing and some shallow chipping to dust jacket; a few scattered stains and scuffs; overall about Very Good. The Arkham Edition includes "The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig,' "The Ghost Pirates," and "The Night Land," in addition to the title story.
While the novel was originally published in Britain in 1908, it was H.C. Koenig's introduction of Hodgson's work to the Lovecraft Circle that rescued the author from obscurity, and its influence has endured with Terry Pratchett calling it "the Big Bang in my private universe as sf/fantasy reader and, later, writer."
Joshi 16; Jones & Newman 29.
Price: $425.00