Sarg Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 23 hours ago, OtherEric said: Only one Lovecraft item from KAYO today, and it’s a minor one. Still fun: Avon motto: "Cleavage sells books." Surfing Alien, OtherEric and jimjum12 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 On 7/11/2021 at 8:14 PM, Sarg said: Avon motto: "Cleavage sells books." Cleavage (and monsters!) by George Mayers, who did several Avon covers, including the famous "Eastern Shame Girl" and lots of interior work for Argosy and other Men's Mags in the late 40's OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted July 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2021 Found at my local store today, I believe this is the first paperback edition or general market edition Lovecraft collection: Surfing Alien, comicjack, RedFury and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 On 7/30/2021 at 5:08 PM, OtherEric said: Found at my local store today, I believe this is the first paperback edition or general market edition Lovecraft collection: Def the 1st mass market. I still need to get one of these again and the much tougher Armed Services Edition of Dunwich Horror to round out the 4 1940's pbs. OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 On 5/25/2021 at 11:57 AM, OtherEric said: May 1941 Weird Tales, with part 1 of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". I'm always amazed they didn't have the cover reflect the story, given how large they printed Lovecraft's name. My copy of the issue is from Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton's collection. It also wasn't the last of the Lovecrafts, despite what the cover says... although it is the last new Lovecraft story to first appear in Weird Tales, unless you count "The Survivor" with Derleth, which most people don't. It's really irritating how WT continually stiffed Lovecraft on the cover art year after year, even in death. It's hard to fathom today, but WT's "star" writer was Seabury Quinn. Both this issue and the "Shadow Over Innsmouth" issue give Quinn the cover over HPL. asimovpulps, OtherEric and RedFury 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asimovpulps Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 On 7/30/2021 at 6:04 PM, Sarg said: Both this issue and the "Shadow Over Innsmouth" issue give Quinn the cover over HPL. Posted my copy on the last page, but interesting that the Canadian WT reissue of the Shadow Over Innsmouth did choose to feature Lovecraft on the cover only a few months after the US issue did not. RedFury and jimjum12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 On 7/30/2021 at 6:26 PM, Surfing Alien said: Def the 1st mass market. I still need to get one of these again and the much tougher Armed Services Edition of Dunwich Horror to round out the 4 1940's pbs. You rang? asimovpulps, OtherEric, Surfing Alien and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 (edited) As you can tell, the printing of the Armed Services HPL is garbage. It would be worthless, except for its oddness. Edited August 3, 2021 by Sarg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 On 8/2/2021 at 5:18 PM, Sarg said: As you can tell, the printing of the Armed Services HLP is garbage. It would be worthless, except for its oddness. It's definitely an oddity, but it (and all the ASE's, really) is definitely historically important. Would love to track down a copy some day, but I'm not holding my breath until I do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted August 3, 2021 Author Share Posted August 3, 2021 One observation about the Dunwich Horror ASE...it's an excellent selection of stories! Some of the better longer titles like At the Mountains of Madness and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward are necessarily omitted for space reasons, but the rest of the selections are top-notch. The weakest entries, I think, are the last two: The Moon-Bog and The Hound. I think I'd replace those with Dagon, Cool Air, and The Temple. But overall, wow, great selections! asimovpulps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 On 7/3/2021 at 4:09 PM, OtherEric said: Just picked this up from Borderland Books in San Francisco. The Curse of Yig by Zealia Bishop, it collects the three revisions Lovecraft did for her. Published in 1953 in an edition of 1217 copies. I got to Borderlands yesterday. What a great store; neat well organized and full of wonderful product. I picked up an RE Howard collection of non-Conan stories and am looking forward to reading in the weeks ahead. Also had a fantastic lunch a few blocks away at a Peruvian restaurant called Limon. And another plus is that our Muni ride over took us to the top of Dolores Park for an amazing view of the city. I'd never been to that park before; what a treat! OtherEric, RedFury and jimjum12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 On 8/3/2021 at 8:28 AM, RedFury said: Cool Air, This should never be omitted from ANY Lovecraft collection. GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) RedFury and PeterPark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 On 8/9/2021 at 6:10 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: I got to Borderlands yesterday. What a great store; neat well organized and full of wonderful product. I picked up an RE Howard collection of non-Conan stories and am looking forward to reading in the weeks ahead. Also had a fantastic lunch a few blocks away at a Peruvian restaurant called Limon. And another plus is that our Muni ride over took us to the top of Dolores Park for an amazing view of the city. I'd never been to that park before; what a treat! It's a good store, if we're talking REH I got the Ace Double D-36 is amazing condition from them several years ago. Never been to Limon, every time I get down to Valencia I wind up going to Puerto Allegra. One of my favorite restaurants in SF, I think it's the ONLY one I've been to every single time I've visited my sister. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 On 8/9/2021 at 9:33 PM, OtherEric said: It's a good store, if we're talking REH I got the Ace Double D-36 is amazing condition from them several years ago. Never been to Limon, every time I get down to Valencia I wind up going to Puerto Allegra. One of my favorite restaurants in SF, I think it's the ONLY one I've been to every single time I've visited my sister. We thought about going there but we have some much good Mexican food in SoCal we thought we would try something different. Good to know about though as we will be going back for sure. OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 On 4/30/2021 at 10:43 AM, Xaltotun said: There's also this classic of classic, with REH, CAS and HPL inside, the latter with a reprint of "The Festival". How many issues have HPL, CAH, and REH all together? Is it only this one and July 1933? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 On 8/11/2021 at 9:02 AM, Sarg said: How many issues have HPL, CAH, and REH all together? Is it only this one and July 1933? May and June 1930 do, there's probably a few others. It would be an interesting sub set http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62055 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62008 Sarg, asimovpulps and jimjum12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 On 8/11/2021 at 6:02 AM, Sarg said: How many issues have HPL, CAH, and REH all together? Is it only this one and July 1933? Not sure, I've got the list of HPL/ REH/ Brundage figured out but not one with CAS. What makes July 1933 unique is it's the only one with actual new stories by both HPL and REH with the Brundage cover. All the others either a story is a reprint, or it's a poem or a letter. Brundage/ Howard/ Lovecraft Weird Tales March 1933 H: The Tower of the Elephant L: In Memoriam: Henry St. Clair Whitehead (essay, uncredited) July 1933 H: The Man on the Ground L: The Horror in the Museum (w/ Hazel Heald); The Dreams in the Witch-House October 1933 H: The Pool of the Black One L: The Festival (reprint) January 1934 H: Rogues in the House L: Letter November 1934 H: The People of the Black Circle (part 3 of 3) L: The Music of Erich Zahn (reprint) May 1935 H: Beyond the Black River (part 1 of 2) L: The White Ape (reprint) January 1936 H: The Hour of the Dragon (part 2 of 5) L: Dagon (reprint) February 1936 H: The Hour of the Dragon (part 3 of 5) L: The Temple (reprint) November 1936 H: Black Hound of Death L: Pickman's Model (reprint) August 1937 H: The Soul Eater (poem) L: The Statement of Randolph Carter (reprint) September 1937 H: The Dream and the Shadow (poem) L: Psychopompos (poem, reprint) October 1937 H: Which Will Scarcely Be Understood (poem) L: The Shunned House (limited edition printed but not released earlier) November 1937 H: Futility (poem) L: Hypnos (reprint) March 1938 H: The Poets (poem) L: Beyond the Wall of Sleep (reprint, first pro publication) May 1938 H: Pigeons from Hell L: Where Once Poe Walked (poem, reprint, first pro publication) June 1938 H: The Last Hour (poem) L: The Doom That Came to Sarnath (reprint) August 1938 H: Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die (poem) L: The Tree (reprint, first pro publication) September 1938 H: A Thunder of Trumpets (w/ Frank Thurston Torbett) L: The Wood (poem) asimovpulps and Sarg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 On 8/11/2021 at 7:28 AM, Surfing Alien said: May and June 1930 do, there's probably a few others. It would be an interesting sub set http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62055 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62008 October 1931 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62118 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 On 8/11/2021 at 1:06 PM, OtherEric said: On 8/11/2021 at 10:28 AM, Surfing Alien said: May and June 1930 do, there's probably a few others. It would be an interesting sub set http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62055 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62008 October 1931 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62118 A couple more, these include letters and poems but any issue that even has all three on any of these has a very cool "Weird Tales" feel to it September 1930 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62133 November 1930 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62087 January 1931 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61949 April-May 1931 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61887 I didn't see any in 1932 and stopped, we know the 2 above in 1933 OtherEric, jimjum12 and Sarg 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 On 8/11/2021 at 1:26 PM, Surfing Alien said: A couple more, these include letters and poems but any issue that even has all three on any of these has a very cool "Weird Tales" feel to it September 1930 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62133 November 1930 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62087 January 1931 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61949 April-May 1931 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61887 I didn't see any in 1932 and stopped, we know the 2 above in 1933 Indeed, it is hard to imagine WT without those three. People would probably be a lot less interested in it today. RedFury, IngelsFan and jimjum12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...