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Published by Avon Book Co, Inc, New York, NY, 1948
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Stapled. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. None Stated. # 6 of a fantasy & horror digest from the late 1940s.Appears to primarily reprint stories of the 1920s & 1930s.Stories by Thorpe McClusky (The Crawling Horror), H P Lovecraft (Beyond the Wall of Sleep), Jack Williamson (The Metal Man), David H Keller, A Merritt (The Drone), Joseph E Kelleam, Edmond Hamilton, Frank S Stockton, & Henry S Whitehead. GGA cover. Edge wear with loss in some spots on the spine. Damp stains at the top & bottom of the front cover visible mainly from the inside, affecting the bottom corner of the first 11 pages. Damp stain on the fore edge of the rear cover that has a gradually diminishing affect on the last 15 pages. Small scrape in the "F" at the top left of the front cover.Toning to the pages. A fair to good copy.
Published by Avon Books, 1947
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. AVON FANTASY READER, Avon Books, 1947 thru 1952, first edition, 18 volumes complete, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps. Contributions by Robert E. Howard, Gelett Burgess, William Hope Hodgson, Hugh Cave, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Lucas White, James Francis Dwyer, G. K. Chesterton, Frank Owen, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Bond, E. Hoffman Price, H. P. Lovecraft, Sax Rohmer, Manly Wade Wellman, M. R. James, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn, Francis Flagg, Doanld Wollheim, Malcolm Jameson, Amelia Reynolds Long, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Ambrose Bierce, C. L. Moore, Abraham Merritt, Frank Belknap Long, David Keller, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, Henry S. Whitehead, Carl Jacobi, William F. Harvey, C. M. Kornbluth, S. Fowler Wright, Murray Leinster, August Derleth, H. G. Wells, H. R. Wakefield, et.al. Along with AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER, all 3 volumes, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps.