Lee Brown Coye Illus (4 results)

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. New York: Rinehart & Company, [1947]. First Edition with Rinehart emblem on copyright page. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; x,372pp.; black and white illus. throughout. Cloth and jacket margins quite rubbed with significant exposure to board edges and joints (joints quite tender), moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins; a Good copy only in a Very Good example of the ghostly jacket. Collection of twenty-two tales of terror from H.P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Margery Lawrence, Ray Bradbury, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and many others. Each story preceded with a short author biography.…

dj. First edition. Quarto. Black boards, gilt spine, grey unmarked endpapers. [ii], iii-v, 134 pp. Sixteen full page illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, printed on rectos only. Fine, fresh and unmarked in a very good unclipped dust jacket, also illustrated by Coye, with a small tear near the spine top edge, a skinned spot at fore-edge, and toning to white areas. H. P. Lovecraft was a master of cosmic horror, a subgenre of horror fiction that emphasizes the insignificance of humanity in a vast and indifferent universe. His stories often feature ancient and eldritch entities that defy human comprehension and threaten to destroy the world as we know it. This limited edition volume includes three of his most influential and celebrated tales of horror. "The Colour Out of Space:" A meteorite lands on a farm in Massachusetts, unleashing a strange and malignant force that drains the life and sanity of everything around it; "The Dunwich Horror:" A secluded and inbred family in a rural town harbors a dark secret: the spawn of a monstrous and forbidden union between a human and an Outer God; "The Thing on the Doorstep:" A man is haunted by the sinister influence of his friend's wife, who is actually the reincarnated soul of a malevolent sorcerer. These three tales of horror showcase Lovecraft's skill in creating a sense of dread and awe, as well as his themes of cosmicism, forbidden knowledge, and the fragility of the human mind. JOSHI, Eighty Years of Arkham House 93. Lee Brown Coye [illus]. (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1944]. First Edition with the "FR" logo on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pink pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); x,374pp.; illus. throughout. Dust jacket quite chipped and worn with two-inch loss at spine foot and bottom half of rear spine edge split; overall a Very Good copy in a Good only example of the delightfully spooky jacket. One of the great horror anthologies of the first half of the 20th century, bringing together short works by M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, and many others. The collection ran through multiple printings in the first year and formed part of the series of Editions for Armed Services during World War II.…

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1963. Third Printing, with $6.50 price to jacket, headband with 9 alternating black and white stripes each, 92x120 mm photo on rear panel, and note about Lovecraft to rear flap instead of titles. Octavo (21cm); black boards in unclipped illustrated dust jacket; xx,[9]-431pp. Jacket shows a closed tear at top edge along spine, with rubbing along edges and toning to rear panel and top edges of flaps. Boards square with some scattered scuffing to cloth and bumping at spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Posthumously-published anthology of short stories and novellas. Joshi 67 (stating incorrect jacket price); Jaffery 69, Currey p. 322]. …