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I have a couple more;

Not until something stupidly expensive and that I am stupidly interested in comes up on the market, whatever it may be...

This thread is on fire! Love it!

Beautiful! Is the deluxe hardcover edition of the Brundage book out? It is supposed to have an extra 16 pgs. My copy of Dec 34 and another Brundage:

Congratulations, Jeff! A nice Howard item, and the beginnings of your own collectability....

"Graveyard Rats" (http://howardworks.com/storyg.htm#grav) and "Black Wind Blowing" (http://howardworks.com/storyb.htm#blac15) Howardworks is THE REH bibliographic site.

Is that a zombie tale, as in "Walking Dead" -like?

You can't trim a pulp without having collectors screaming after you, but trimming ladies obviously was apparently quite fashionable in the 30s.

Whether you chop or crush, it's important to have a good chopping block, meseemeth... Beautiful copies as usual, Bangzoom!

What? You mean issues such as this one? ...

Theagenes: gasp, choke, spa fon! Gorgeous! Congrats!

Two more Howard (and also HPL and CAS) rarities arrived at the casa yesterday. Books so rare (and even more so in dj, high grade and first print) they have acquired near-legendary status: Terror by Night, 1934, with "Rogues in the House", the first ever publication of a Conan story in bookform, and "Keep on the Light" with "Worms of the Earth". These were very fragile publications, cheaply made, hence their scarce status (+ many copies probably didn't survive the paper drives of WWII)

What a sweet copy of a very desirable pulp! Congratulations!

A recent scan for an old acquisition, Action Stories for Feb 1936

arf!

Who said sorcey was bad?

You mean that one?

Here's one I didn't think would be coming so unexpectedly, but a nice addition to the collection to be sure.

And here is its little brother, the June 1935 ish, illustrating what is far and away my favorite El Borak story. "Hawk of the Hills", a kind of modern era, non Fantasy, take on "Beyond the Black River" (Conan).

Yeah, I think that is about right. I have always heard The Fantasy Fan had a print run of about 60 copies, but don't know where the figure comes from. They are scarce, sure, but much more common (if I may say so) than The Phantagraphs. There are *always* a number of issues of Fantasy Fan floating around (on ABE, for instance), but Phantagraphs are really scarce when you are after the early issues. The REH issues are tough as hell of course, though the two (three? I don't remember) copies of the 2nd and 3rd installments of "The Hyborian Age" that surfaced from this guy's collection drove the prices a bit down. The early issues (and hence that Feb 1936) *never* come up for sale. Ridiculously low print run, paper cover, overhang, cheap paper... My copy is abt. perfect, btw, Theagenes, ie no brittleness at all. Still, not the kind of item I like pawing too much...

Thanks! Didn't know that. I'll look him up. The signature is indeed something.