Lou Hampton (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good with slight shelf wear. Good with shelf wear. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Pam Lontos/ featuring Pam Lontos.

First printing (as stated upon copyright page but being a revised second edition of a 1961 book published under a slightly altered title). 1-64, [8], 65-140 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.75cm. Brown dust jacket with some minor bumping at edges; front flap's top corner retains its original printed price. Blue cloth spine and blue boards. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With brief Introduction, b/w drawings by Harry Maddox inset amongst text, and an eight page section featuring a b/w portrait illustration by Jackson, Mississippi artist Marie Hull and six b/w photographs by Gertrude Gibson and Mattie Lou Stribling. Features numerous short stories and anecdotes divided among three parts titled as "Man-Like," "Them Women!," and "Saints Go On." {Fiction Shelf #4}.…

New York: Authors & Publishers Corporation:, 1927. First edition, Hardcover, Very Good with no dust jacket, 284 pp. A clean, straight and tight copy with dusty head. First edition, Hardcover, Very Good with no dust jacket.

hardcover. First Edition. Neat owner's bookplate, else a VG+ copy (no Dust Jacket). A collection of ghost and science fiction short stories. An uncommon Bleiler title.

Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 9-284, original olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A mixed collection of short fiction which includes several ghost stories and four science fiction stories; "The Hidden Continent," a lost race tale set in the Arctic, "An Inter-Stellar Voyage," a rather didactic tale of interplanetary and interstellar exploration, "The Darkened Days: A Celestial Menace," a alien invasion tale, and "In the Days of the Monster Plants: A Nightmare of Nature," a catastrophe story featuring gigantic plants which destroy crop land and cities, toppling all but the largest buildings. The stories are amateurish and not well developed. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 758. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1027. Bleiler (1978), p. 92. Reginald 06727. Extremities of cloth a bit rubbed, some darkening and minor soiling to cloth, a very good copy. (#89857). …

First Edition. GHOSTS OF MY STUDY: A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES, Authors & Publishers Corporation, 1927, first edition, age toning to the t.p.e.'s, a bit of crimping to the lower fore edge corner tips of the first few leaves, else just about fine in vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and dust-soiling. From the library of Forrest J. Ackerman. Contains stories of the supernatural as well as science fiction.…