Black Medicine
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1966. Very Good / Very Good. Item #50575
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1966. First Edition. 1952 copies printed (2000 stated). Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine; illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; [vi],308pp. Jacket clean and crisp with rubbing at tail and lightly along folds; some toning along edges of flaps and rear panel, and a touch of darkening down spine. Boards square with light rubbing at corners, some fingerprinting to cloth, and bumping at spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
Collection of short fiction, most originally published in Weird Tales. Joshi notes that Lovecraft regarded Burks' "Bells of Oceana" to be one of the finest stories ever published in the magazine.
Joshi 88.
Price: $100.00