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Yep, "The House of Arabu", heavily edited by Otis Kline.

Technically not a pulp because those were digest-sized, but lots of ultra cool reprints and nice covers. The Avon Fantasy Reader, from 1947 onward.

I posted a lot of R.E. Howard sports pulps in the thread dedicated to this author.

Beautiful cover!

6 copies of the book were sent to Otis Kilne in 1937. A few were circulated for potential publishers. One ended up in Howard's father's hands, then to his heirs. One landed at the Ranger museum. The Derleth copy very probably originated from Kline. No copy ever surfaced from the States other than those 3. All the others originated from the UK or the Commonwealth or countries with strong British colonial ties (the copy at the Howard house in Cross Plains originated from South Africa). Other than my first copy (which I very strongly suspect to be an original owner's), all copies of this book are ratty, missing the dj, and originate from the UK. 3 copies were discovered in the past ten years, all ratty.

And here is the one to rule them all. Bob Howard's first book, published posthumously in England in 1937. Print run was very low, maybe even around 800 copies, most of which were circulated via Boots lending library (ie a supermaket chain where you could borrow books for a week or so), and of course the jackets were discarded right away. Add the Blitz, and you will understand why there are only 18 known surviving copies, 9 of which are institutionally held. I tracked down a first copy in 2007 or so. It was buried in the family archive of descendants of the Howard family. They are keeping that, of course. I found and this time bought another copy in 2010 from a UK bookseller, who had no idea what it was obviously, paying the grand sum of £20 for it. It instantly became the world's *second* best copy in existence, a book in abt Fine condition, but of course no dustjacket. With one exception, no copy survives with the dustjacket. I thought I had my Grail, when the only copy in the world with the dj was offered. It came from Glenn Lord's collection. Glenn bought it for a song from August Derleth, who had told him at the time that he would get another copy later. Glenn chuckled. After Glenn passed away, the book was offered on eBay. It brought *lots* of attention from *Big Name* dealers (I know of at least three), but they didn't pull the trigger because the description stated that the book had been unbound then rebound when Don Grant prepared the first American edition of the book (in 1965). I knew this was not the case. Glenn Lord would *never* have done that. The copy that was used for the Don Grant edition is the one which is held at Ranger, Texas, all of which was later confirmed by copies of Glenn's correspondence. I sold my undercopy in exactly 12 minutes, and used it to partially finance the new one. And thus, this copy arrived in my hands. It is the only copy in the world with the dustjacket. The best copy, with an incredible pedigree, of the ultimate Grail of any Howard collector

There was also "The Shunned House", prepared by W. Paul Cook in 1928, but if he printed the sheets, he never got around to bind them, which was done years later. It's quite a rarity.

And its little brother, in about the same condition

Lots of cool books and signatures in that thread!! This one is not signed, but I defy you to find a better copy. The jacket is flawless, bone white, and no bleeding whatsoever on the back cover as is almost always the case.

My field of interest is quite narrow, which explains that. I don't have that large a collection at all, just very focused.

Kelly, the "conjer-man" was the basis for a factual article Howard wrote in 1931, which in turn was the basis for his "Black Caaan" (Weird Tales, Jun 1936)

Here is a nice little series of cool Howard/Lovecraft items. In the course of the Lovecraft/Howard correspondence, they would often share clippings and documents. While all the original letters are now held by the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, what few enclosed documents that survived are not, and those are 5 photos taken by Howard, with his typewritten comments on the back. I obtained those a year ago or so.

Yep.

here is one nice HPL/REH/CAS item. The first (of two) issue of Leaves, published in 1937 by R. H. Barlow in an edition of just 100 copies.

And here is the last entry of the REH sports pulps, one which few people know of because the REH connection was only discovered a few years ago: a full page biographical letter, which, sadly, was published the very month Howard died. Dime Sports, June 1936

Here's a link to the original typescript. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:425219/ Very, very, light editing by Farnsworth Wright. And HPL would never have retyped it. He just hated doing that.

I am not sure it was. "At the Mountains of Madness" was severely truncated in Astounding. Maybe that's the tale you were thinking of. Wright didn't censor or bowdlerize as a rule. At most, he would silently edit a word here and there, but if there was something he didn't like, or felt a stroy was too long, he would ask for a rewrite.

And here is a much better version of pic 52 as seen on the link posted by Surfing Alien. The original is real small, at least the print I scanned, which dates from the 1950s. It will be up for auction soon, I am told.

This is slightly off-topic, but here is the original to a Clark Ashton Smith pic taken by George Haas in 1959. A friend of mine wanted it and I helped him get it. I love this shot.

The next-to-last entry in my sports pulps featuring Howard. RedFury showed his copy in the first page of this thread, but here is mine. As he said, a tough to get copy of Dime Sports, April 1936, with "Iron Jaw" (original title: "Fists of the Desert").

Third and last Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine, which folded with this issue. If 1 and 2 are tough to come by, 3 is even harder. I snatched this copy quite a number of years ago and will have a hard time upgrading.

Congratulations!