Latest Finds II

[Dr Strange]

Jul 24, 2022 20:07:31 GMT cauldronbrewer said:

Jul 23, 2022 10:52:46 GMT Johnlprobert said:

That's the edition of Edge of Running Water I have - well worth $2!

I have the 1980 Del Rey edition, but it's a solid novel either way.

I got To Walk The Night (1937) and The Edge of Running Water (1939) collected together in a single volume with the title The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (New York Review Books, 2015) from a second-hand book shop a few years back. Can't quite remember why now, but I didn't think much of either story - maybe a bit too slow-moving, maybe a bit dated, or maybe just too SF for me.

[dem]

A couple from the Sunday's market. Particularly like David Bergen's one man and his mudflaps painting for Wells' 'When animals & vegetables attack' outing.

H. G. Wells - The Food of the Gods (Sphere, 1976)

Cover painting: David Bergen

Blurb:
GIANTS AT LARGE ON EARTH
Not only animal and plant giants but human giants too.
And all the result of an unfortunate accident - a slip which released the Food of the Gods to an unsuspecting world. Such was the power of the Food that no one could control it: almost everything which came into contact with it began to grow and kept on growing. The problems grew worse when those who had avoided the Food began to think the Giants were threatening them. So the Little People went to war. It was a case of eat, destroy — or be destroyed...

Bram Stoker - Lair of the White Worm (Target, 1986)

Blurb:
Out in the still darkness of the English countryside, deep in the heart of the ancient kingdom of Mercia, there lurks a terror that has cursed the land for centuries.
When Adam Salton travels to England to visit his grand uncle he discovers that for some time local people have been disappearing without a trace; a dead child has been found on the roadside; and sheep and other animals have been discovered, dying or wounded. What is the secret of the haunted hills? What ancient evil still dwells in Diana's Grove? And who —or what —is the beguiling and beautiful Lady Arabella March?

[bluetomb]

Nice wee haul at Northampton market this afternoon, which seems to keep up a good old fashioned pulp Western section. Jubal Cade #7. The Golden Dead, Adam Steele #6. The Killing Art and #7. Cross-Fire, and Edge #4. Killer's Breed. Got Edge #8. Seven Out of Hell there a couple months back too.

[andydecker]

Aug 7, 2022 0:37:27 GMT bluetomb said:

Nice wee haul at Northampton market this afternoon, which seems to keep up a good old fashioned pulp Western section. Jubal Cade #7. The Golden Dead, Adam Steele #6. The Killing Art and #7. Cross-Fire, and Edge #4. Killer's Breed. Got Edge #8. Seven Out of Hell there a couple months back too.

Nice finds. Edge #4 is one of the best. And a great cover as a bonus.

[jamesdoig]

Couple of recent pick ups:

$2 from the junk shop:

American Gothic Short Stories - 60+ short stories by American authors, including Ramsey Campbell(!):



2nd Interzone anthology:



And this from the Vinnies store for $3, a thin book published by the Unicorn Bookshop in 1973:

[helrunar]

Love the art on the cover of the Moorcock. Wasn't that a US limited edition firm of the 1960s/70s?

I wonder if the editor of that other volume somehow thought Ramsey was American since he was published initially by Arkham? Seems unlikely, but I suppose stranger things have happened.

H.

[andydecker]

Aug 18, 2022 21:34:50 GMT jamesdoig said:

Couple of recent pick ups:

$2 from the junk shop:

Nice finds. American Gothic Stories is brand new. The cover fooled me, I would have put it in the 90s. not in 2019.

The Moorcock is a find. These old chapbooks are hard to get and mainly expensive.

[jamesdoig]

Couple of recent pick ups. The big charity bookfair is on again starting Friday, so hopefully will have some more finds to share then.

1961 Ballantine edition of this - didn't realise it was abridged though:



Never read a Simon Clark novel, but this looks like a good place to start:



Some Horwitz printed gothic from 1982:



And this one from the junk shop for $3:

[Jojo Lapin X]

Sept 6, 2022 21:00:23 GMT jamesdoig said:

Never read a Simon Clark novel, but this looks like a good place to start

BLOOD CRAZY is the place to start.

[jamesdoig]

The Lifeline bookfair was on again, but was disappointing this time around. Some things of Vaultish interest, most of which I already have - these for $1-$2:













This is a weird one - evidently published by the Unicorn Bookshop, who also did that slender Moorcock volume. This one was later published by Rider and seems quite scarce:



Alan Rodgers edited Night Cry for a while and this was his first novel:





Couldn't resist the Pennington cover:





This lot was between $3-$5:











And quite a few of these types of things:

[dem]

Sept 11, 2022 7:01:04 GMT jamesdoig said:

The Lifeline bookfair was on again, but was disappointing this time around. Some things of Vaultish interest, most of which I already have - these for $1-$2:



And quite a few of these types of things:

ibb.co/RPKRtb1

Ha! Bride of Dem provided six vampish interior illo's for the Tanith Lee booklet, inc. two for Il Bacio (Il Chiave). Artist's model for Valore was ....

[jamesdoig]

Sept 11, 2022 9:06:57 GMT dem said:

Ha! Bride of Dem provided six vampish interior illo's for the Tanith Lee booklet, inc. two for Il Bacio (Il Chiave). Artist's model for Valore was ....

Oh, yeah - Chrissie Demant is there in the artwork credits - why didn't I see that before. You mean this guy:

[dem]

No, that's one of Tanith Lee's own illo's. Try the handsome black-haired bastard on pages 25 and 33.

[helrunar]

I'm curious to see the drawings Dem mentions, James. Scans?

And I have to observe that your idea of a rather unremarkable day at the races leaves me feeling giddy and faint. What a gorgeous Sime drawing on the cover of that Dunsany collection! The Benson anthology is new to me--don't much care for that cover art, but as a collector's item it's intriguing to see.

Interesting to see a photo of young Brian Lumley--have never seen any portrait at all of him.

I'm very curious, too, to know more about the Atlantean Traditions volume; will have to look on the interwebs and see if there's more info.

Thanks for all these excellent scans!

cheers, Hel.

[jamesdoig]

Sept 11, 2022 13:25:26 GMT helrunar said:

I'm curious to see the drawings Dem mentions, James. Scans?

Here you go, Hel - Dem must have been quite the thing back in the day:







And I love these little vigenettes: