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THE CALLER OF THE BLACK (Signed and Inscribed)
by Lumley, Brian
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good Minus
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. First edition, 3500 copies. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. (8), 236. Illustrated white and black paper dust jacket with white and black titles. Black cloth boards with gold gilt titles on spine. Selected Arkham House titles on back panel of dust jacket.
Inscribed by author on title page - "For Joe, All best wishes, Brian Lumley." Dust jacket in brodart wraps. Age toning on back panel and spine of dust jacket. Price clipped in a non-Euclidean geometric pattern. Light rubbing on boards. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.
Brian Lumley's first collection of horror stories. Lumley would go on to create the very entertaining Necroscope series and the Titus Crow cycle of Lovecraft inspired stories.
Inscribed by author on title page - "For Joe, All best wishes, Brian Lumley." Dust jacket in brodart wraps. Age toning on back panel and spine of dust jacket. Price clipped in a non-Euclidean geometric pattern. Light rubbing on boards. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.
Brian Lumley's first collection of horror stories. Lumley would go on to create the very entertaining Necroscope series and the Titus Crow cycle of Lovecraft inspired stories.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1020
- Title
- THE CALLER OF THE BLACK (Signed and Inscribed)
- Author
- Lumley, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, WI
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Lovecraft Mythos
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- Title Page
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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