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Seabury Quinn. Roads....
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Description
Seabury Quinn. Roads. With illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948.First hardcover edition. Octavo. 110 pages. Eight illustrations by Virgil Finlay.
Publisher's black cloth covers with spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket with the $2.00 price on the front inner flap. Covers and jacket rubbed, jacket has chipped edges and corners, slightly toned endpapers. Altogether a tight and very good.
Seabury Grandin Quinn's (1889 - 1969) work originally appeared in Weird Tales magazine, January 1938. That same year, Quinn had Conrad Ruppert (ARRA, Milwaukee Fictioneers) privately publish one hundred copies for his Christmas card. This work represents Arkham House's first illustrated book, and the author's first hardcover book. The author is also known as Jerome Burke.
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2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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June, 2008
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