TYPED LETTER SIGNED TLS . 1/2 page on a single sheet of letter-size paper, signed Fritz in green ink, dated 5 August 1945, to Dear August Derleth

by Fritz Leiber

$1,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

A businesslike letter to Derleth, as editor of Arkham House, concerning the edition of Leiber's tales that he was preparing. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS appeared in 1947, Leiber's first book, and Arkham's 29th. It was also the first of their titles which went subsequently into a paperback edition, brought out by Ballantine Books in 1961. In this letter, responding apparently to Derleth's request for blurb material, Leiber refers to a letter he had received from H. P. Lovecraft late in 1936 after

• Binding: Paperback

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