Half in Shadow by COUNSELMAN, Mary Elizabeth - 1978

Sauk City WI: Arkham House. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. [a touch of wear at the base of the spine, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), small check-marks next to all titles in table of contents; the jacket is very nice, showing just the tinest bit of soiling and some minor wrinkling at the top of the front panel (which for some reason shows up more in the scanned image than to the eye)]. A collection of the author's "finest spectral fiction written over a period of thirty-five years," including her legendary tale "The Three Marked Pennies," which originally appeared in the August 1934 issue of Weird Tales. (The "thirty-five years" claim is a little specious, though: in fact, all but one of these stories was published between 1934 and 1950, and all first appeared in Weird Tales.) The volume also contains: "The… Read More

Arkham House, 1978. Bookplate on front pastedown, very slight fading on DJ spine. A very nice copy in tight binding, see pics.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1978. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a jacket that has a few spots to the front panel and and a small closed tear at the bottom of the front joint.

In lovely shape: Tight, square spine. Former owner name to front flyleaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Very light wear to the jacket. Jacket and frontispiece by Tim Kirk. 212 pp. Fiction.

8vo hardcover edition in a mylar-protected dust jacket. First edition. Minor shelf wear to jacket; binding and pages are clean and unmarked; binding is square and tight. Very Good.

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tim Kirk. F/F dj; now in archival Brodart. Collects fourteen tales of horror and the macabre including her most famous, "The Three Marked Pennies".

[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1978. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, unread. (22817). Octavo, cloth. Collects fourteen stories from WEIRD TALES including "The Three Marked Pennies." Deletes six stories from the U.K. paperback edition and adds six different stories to this edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-40.

[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1978. First U. S. (and first hardcover) edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, unread, still in shrink-wrap. (18631). Octavo, cloth. Collects fourteen stories from WEIRD TALES including "The Three Marked Pennies." Deletes six stories from the U.K. paperback edition and adds six different stories to this edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-40.

Edition of 4000 printed by Lakeside Press, Regional writings with the flavour of reminiscent of Manly Wade Wellman combined with Saki
Fine in fine DJ with very minor chip to front bottom inner corner, original price unclipped $8.95

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1978. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo, full black cloth, a collection of "spectral fiction" mostly from the pages of Weird Tales. A fine bright copy in fine, ubncliped dj, no previous owner's marks.