Out of Space and Time

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1942. first. hardcover. good/good. Hannes Bok. First edition. 1054 copies printed. A good copy in good dust jacket, now in new removable protective cover. Jacket is not price clipped ($3). Dust jacket has tiny chips at flap folds, with 30 mm closed tears at top and bottom between front and spine panels, and 5 mm (bottom) and 10 mm (top) closed tears between back panel and spine panel. In addition, there are 4 other small (less than 5 mm) closed tears at top of dust jacket, and mild fade to the green lettering on the spine panel, and just a bit of tanning to the edges of the rear panel and the flap folds. Black cloth binding with gold titles on the spine. Prior owners' names and dates on front free end page. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Arkham House hard cover with dust jacket, first edition, first printing August 1942, 370 pages, cover art by Hannes Bok. 8vo (5.25" x 7.5") The third Arkham House book. Smith's first major collection of dark fantasy tales and the first Smith book published by Arkham House. There are eighteen stories in this collection - all were first published between 1931-37 in pulp magazine. The majority were published in Weird Tales. Contents: The End of the Story; A Rendezvous in Averoigne; A Night in Malneant; The City of the Singing Flame; The Uncharted Isle; The Second Interment; The Double Shadow; The Chain of Aforgomon; The Dark Eidolon; The Last Hieroglyph; Sadastor; The Death of Ilalotha; The Return of the Sorcerer; The Testament of Athammaus; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan; Ubbo-Sathla; The Monster of the Prophecy; The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis; From the Crypts of Memory; The Shadows