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This is Lee Brown Coye's watercolor painting from 1940 called The Old D.L. & W. Station. The real train station was built in Syracuse NY in 1877 and was demolished in 1940 when the tracks were elevated in the city. Coye visited the site a made preliminary sketches before the demolition. In this piece he contrasts the old with the new: the old train and station with the then modern automobile on the left. The painting was exhibited at the Whitney Museum in NYC in 1941. Another of Coye's paintings, Dark House, from the 1939 Whitney exhibit was purchased by The Met, where it still resides.

In the past few months I've picked up three paintings by Weird Tales and Arkham House artist Lee Brown Coye. This one is an oil painting from 1937. Coye won first prize in the 1937 Associated Artists of Syracuse exhibition for an oil painting called "Backyard", and I think this may be it. The grim, murderous subject matter of this painting presages his macabre work to come. He began illustrating weird fiction stories in 1944's Sleep No More anthology, and in 1945 issues of Weird Tales, and continued these types of illustrations into the 1970s.

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Payment by Paypal Friends and Family or Check Returns accepted if you're not happy. Shipping is $20 in the US. International will be exact cost. "I'll Take It" trumps any PM offers. 4 Robert E. Howard issues of Fight Stories Anyone want an instant Robert E. Howard starter set of Fight Stories? I've got a few extras I'll part with. There are 13 Robert E. Howard stories about his fighting hero Sailor Steve Costigan that ran from 1929 to 1932. All of them are very tough to find in any grade, especially the 1st appearance issue. Here's 4 of them, including the 1st appearance of Sailor Steve. Lot includes: - Jul 1929 (#1) "The Pit of the Serpent" 1st appearance Sailor Steve Costigan. No front or back cover, interior complete, facsimile cover included. - Feb 1930 (#2) "Bulldog Breed" VG - Dec 1931 (#11) "Circus Fists" No back cover, front cover detached but otherwise complete. - Feb 1932 (#12) "Vikings of the Gloves" VG Price: $1,850 $1,500

I think he wrote the outline in Brooklyn, and then a year later wrote the story at 10 Barnes St in Providence.

After about 10 years of looking, I finally found an item signed by Robert E. Howard! It's a letter written February 15, 1936 to Emil Petaja, who was then only 20 and still years away from establishing himself as a pulp writer. It's an interesting letter that mentions Howard's mother's illness, "Witch's Bercuse", an early poem written by Petaja that was published in Marvel Tales in 1935, Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright, Howard's agent and fellow Weird Tales author Otis Adelbert Kline, Duane Rimel's linotype silhouette of Howard, and finally Lovecraft's last tale, The Haunter of the Dark.

I bought one of H.P. Lovecraft's letters at PulpFest and thought I'd share it here. It was written to Clark Ashton Smith on November 4, 1925, is three pages long, and the original envelope was included. There's a lot of great content in here, including specific mention of nearly a dozen of Lovecraft's stories accepted or rejected by Weird Tales, praise of Clark Ashton Smith's new poetry collection, Sandalwood, and mention of Frank Belknap Long possibly publishing a book of poetry, what would become A Man From Genoa. But there's one cryptic allusion to story Lovecraft was about to begin work on, a "tale of a sunken continent". This, of course, is The Call of Cthulhu, which he had outlined in August 1925. From this letter is appears he planned to write the story the week of November 8, but in fact did not write it until nine months later, in August 1926. It was then rejected by Weird Tales in October 1926, and finally published there in the February 1928 issue. Full text of the letter from as reprinted in Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill in photos.

I'll be there and setup!

I recently bought a set of The Outsider and Beyond the Wall of Sleep that had been Robert Bloch's copies. Both contain Bloch's bookplates inside, one of which is signed. This alone makes these very special books since Bloch was a friend and correspondent of Lovecraft's, a fellow Weird Tales writer, and the star (as Robert Blake) of Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark", which appears in The Outsider. When Blake gives his address at the end of the story, it's Bloch's actual home in Milwaukee. But what's really intriguing is the presence of another bookplate, H.P. Lovecraft's. I compared it to two other genuine examples I have in books Lovecraft owned, and they are identical in size, printing, and paper, so I believe it's a real Lovecraft bookplate. I took a look at the letters of Lovecraft/Bloch looking for mention of this bookplate, and found it! In just his second letter to Bloch, dated April 27 1933, Lovecraft said "I have chosen as the design for my bookplate a typical Old Providence doorway - as the enclosed specimen illustrates." He initially forgot to enclose it, though, for in his third letter, dated May 9 1933, Lovecraft writes "The fine colonial doorway is much like my bookplate - which I herewith enclose, after forgetting to do so the last time." So Robert Bloch received a real HPL bookplate from Lovecraft himself in 1933. I believe the bookplate in Bloch's copy of The Outsider is most likely that same bookplate. I can't prove it, of course, unless mention of placing the bookplate in the book appears somewhere in Bloch's writings. But I'm pretty sure it is, and I think it's amazing!

Thanks! Yes, from Heritage. I just took a look at Maharajah, and yeah, that's really nice. Sorry you missed it!

New arrival, Frank Utpatel's eerie original art for Deep Waters by William Hope Hodgson (Arkham House, 1967). I absolutely love this one!

Just an FYI, that Apr 1929 Weird Tales has the first appearance of The Dunwich Horror, not The Shadow over Innsmouth.

It's all about the cover. Lots of demand of top pulp covers right now.

I've looked at this before and wondered the same. Before I thought it was inconclusive, but now I think the cover could be illustrating the third stanza. And comes to twine where the headstones shine And the ghouls of the churchyard wail

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Hm, I'm not sure why the pics aren't working for you. Thanks for letting me know. Here's a Google photo album with them: Gang World cover art

For sale, the original cover art painting for Gang World, May 1934. Original pulp cover paintings are very tough to find. It's estimated only about 500 covers still exist of the 42,000 pulps made. Artist is probably John Drew. This work is unsigned, but Drew did all the other issues of Gang World in 1934 and this looks like the same artist. Painting measures about 20" x 20" inside the frame, and 24" x 24" at the outside of the frame. A VG copy of the original pulp is included. Priced at $10,000 Reduced to $8,500 Free FedEx shipping in the US

Ah, the green spined issue! Lovely.

And a cool Hannes Bok cover too!

Very happy to add this amazing original cover art by Frank Utpatel to my collection. It's for New Poetry Out of Wisconsin, edited by August Derleth and published in 1969 by Stanton & Lee, an Arkham House imprint. Just a lovely bucolic Wisconsin landscape scene.

I think it's the Canadian edition as well.

Cool! That looks like a real nice copy.

About 3 years ago there were 3 available copies of Vice Squad on the market, two were pretty nice.

Sure, here are a few shots of it. I also found an old photo of it online.

Very nice CAS collection! I especially love the sculpture and photo. Thanks for sharing your treasures! I have two signed CAS books, The Star-Treader and Other Poems and The Abominations of Yondo, and I also have one clay sculpture with the typical "KA" on the bottom (for Klark-Ash-ton).