Howard, Robert E.
Skull-Face and Others
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. First edition (one of 3,004 copies printed). 8vo. xxvi, 474, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt; light offsetting from now removed tape on recto of front free endpaper and half-title and verso of rear free endpaper and blank; in original unclipped dust-jacket designed by Hannes Bok, small indiscreet reinforcement to spine ends and corner folds; in quarter black morocco solander box with white and red onlay of a bleeding skull. Jaffery 19; Derlerth, Thirty Years of Arkham House 17

A handsome copy in a spectacular solander box of the first major collection of stories by Robert E. Howard, many of which originally appeared in Weird Tales.