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Lot 405
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$200 -
300
Price Realized
$390
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Lot Description
[LITERATURE - MYSTERY & SCIENCE FICTION]. A group of 44 titles, comprising:
1) Argosy All-Story Weekly, in five volumes (Vol. 198, No. 6, October 27, 1928; Vol. 203, No. 2, April 27, 1929; Vol. 243, No. 6, January 6, 1934; Vol. 249, No. 6, September 15, 1934; Vol. 266, No. 4, August 15, 1936).
2) Astounding Science Fiction, in six volumes (January, February, April, June, July, and October, 1942).
3) Adventure, in 14 volumes (October 1919; February 1922; October 1922; June 1925; January 1927; November 1928; December 1928; December 1929; November 1930; January 1931; August 1931; November 1931; August 1934; November 1937).
4) Beyond Fantasy Fiction (July 1953).
5) Blue Book of Fiction and Adventure, in seven volumes (Vol. 49, Nos. 1-4, May-August, 1929; Vol. 66, Nos. 1-3, November-January, 1937-38).
6) Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September 1964).
7) Famous Fantastic Mysteries (October 1941).
8) Fantastic Universe Science Fiction (June-July 1953).
9) Manhunt Detective Story Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 1, January 1953)
10) Orbit Science Fiction (Vol. 1, No. 1, 1953).
11) Tales of the Sea (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1953).
12) Shocking Tales (No. 1, October 1981).
And others.
[With:] From Unknown Worlds. New York: Street & Smith, 1948. 4to. Original wrappers, front wrapper largely detached. With a copy of the first English edition, signed by the illustrator, Edd Cartier, in price-clipped dust-jacket. First edition.
[With:] two Bart House Mystery editions of H.P. Lovecraft (The Dunwich Horror, 1945; The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth, 1944).
Together, 44 works in 44 volumes. Various 8vo sizes, all in original wraps. Condition generally good.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
