WEIRD TALES: A MAGAZINE OF THE BIZARRE AND UNUSUAL - VOL.28. NO.1 (JULY, 1936)

by Howard, Robert E., Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Arthur Conan Doyle, et al. (contributors); Brundage, Margaret (cover)

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First edition

Indianapolis: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Quarto (25cm); original pictorial wrappers; 128pp; illus. Sunning to spine (faded to orange), light wear to extremities, a tiny tear to base of spine, with tiny tears, creasing, and one shallow chip to overhang at lower edges; text edges tanned but still supple, with beginning oxidation to lower staple; Very Good+. Contents include Part One (of three) of "Red Nails," Robert E. Howard's final Conan story, released the month after his death. With additional contributions by Clark Ashton Smith, Edmond Hamilton, C.L. Moore, Ronal Kayser, August Derleth, Manley Wade Wellman, and others. Reprints Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Ring of Thoth" – an eldritch tale of an Egyptian mummy. Lurid "human sacrifice" cover by Margaret Brundage. 8817.

• Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Company
• Year: 1936
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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