Howard, Robert E. | Weird Tales

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December 16, 07:27 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 USD

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From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Howard, Robert E.

Skull-Face and Others. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946

8vo. Original black cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Hannes Bok; jacket with some minor rubbing along folds and at extremities. Cloth folding case with quarter morocco back, a bleeding skull onlay extending from rear across spine and onto front of case.

First edition of Howard's third book.

With a foreword by August Derleth. The title novella was originally serialized in Weird Tales. Howard was 23.

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