The House on the Borderland
- Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Very Good +/Near Fine. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First American Edition. 3014 copies printed (3000 stated). Tall octavo; xi, 639pp. Hannes Bok-illustrated dust jacket with original $5.00 price; book in black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with slightly heavier wear and creasing to flaps. Boards show light shelfwear with a couple very small chips to crown; very slight bowing towards fore-edge. Binding sound. Bit of toning to endpapers and interior otherwise unmarked; overall a Very Good or better copy in a remarkably well-preserved Near Fine dust jacket. The Arkham Edition includes "The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig,' "The Ghost Pirates," and "The Night Land," in addition to the title story.
While the novel was originally published in Britain in 1908, it was H.C. Koenig's introduction of Hodgson's work to the Lovecraft Circle that rescued the author from obscurity, and its influence has endured with Terry Pratchett calling it "the Big Bang of in my private universe as sf/fantasy reader and, later, writer."
[Joshi 16; Jones & Newman 29].
While the novel was originally published in Britain in 1908, it was H.C. Koenig's introduction of Hodgson's work to the Lovecraft Circle that rescued the author from obscurity, and its influence has endured with Terry Pratchett calling it "the Big Bang of in my private universe as sf/fantasy reader and, later, writer."
[Joshi 16; Jones & Newman 29].