RIVALS OF WEIRD TALES. 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps.
New York: Bonanza Books, [1990]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black boards lettered in gilt on spine. 486 pp. Spine slightly cocked and with a couple of vertical reading creases; a very good clean copy in a near fine example of the original colour pictorial dust jacket. Item #314651
Collects 30 stories from STRANGE TALES, TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY, HORROR STORIES, STRANGE STORIES, UNKNOWN / UNKNOWN WORLDS, FANTASTIC ADVENTURES, STIRRING SCIENCE STORIES, THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, and BEYOND; by Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Williamson, Robert E. Howard, Hugh B. Cave, Henry Kuttner, August Derleth, C.L. Moore, Manly Wade Wellman, Carl Jacobi, Eric Frank Russell, Seabury Quinn, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson, and many others. The dust jacket artwork is adapted by John Rosato from the original cover by Wesso for STRAGE TALES, October, 1932, and depicts the library scene in Clark Ashton Smith's THE HUNTERS FROM BEYOND, a story curiously not present here.
Price (CAD): $30.00