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[theagenes]

Great collection Alfred! And welcome to the boards.

[Patrice Louinet]

Diablerie 4, May 1944.
Of interest to Howard collectors because it includes the first appearance of E. Hoffman's Price's essay "Robert Ervin Howard".
The fanzine is mimeographed, in color, and all the photos are pasted over the "printed" page. I can't imagine all the work that went into this for a fanzine. For all of that, it was nearly distributed as "Diablepie"!
Contents page gives the print run: 75 copies.

Edited by Patrice Louinet, 20 November 2011 - 09:15 PM.

[theagenes]

Very cool, Patrice! Something new to add to my ebay alerts.

[Patrice Louinet]

A rather tough set to acquire in any grade (and even more so in pristine condition), that is of interest to die-hard collectors only, but really nice imo, are the seven chapbooks published by G.T. Hamilton between 1975 and 1978. Plenty of stories published the first time anywhere in those. Each is a lavishly produced chapbook (stapled) with a stiff cover, a white dustjacket, and cover + full pages illos by the remarkable Steve Fabian.
The more common first:

Blades for France (300 copies printed)




The Shadow of the Hun (318 copies printed)

[Patrice Louinet]

Isle of Pirate's Doom (302 copies)



The King's Service (310 copies)

[Patrice Louinet]

The Shadow of the Beast (280 copies)

[Patrice Louinet]

And the two toughest ones, by far:

Bicentennial Tribute to Robert E. Howard (194 copies)



And ultra-tough Spears of Clontarf, a powerful tale for a print run of 152 copies.

[alfredbonnabel]

Wow, those are some nice looking chapbooks. Thank you for sharing Patrice. Now I've got something else to add to my eBay alerts.

[alfredbonnabel]

I've had a productive couple of weeks, managing to add 8 REH related items to my library and another dozen issues of "Savage Sword of Conan" to the collection.








And my first Howard pulp!

[theagenes]

NIce! I still need the Double Action Western.

[Patrice Louinet]

That makes two of us!

Two more Weird Tales: Feb 1937 (Dig Me no Grave) and Sep 1938 ("A Thunder of Trumpets", and a cover I simply love.)

[theagenes]

Gorgeous Patrice! The hangman cover is classic!

[theagenes]

This one isn't in great shape but it's fairly tough to find. Published in 1944, this collection edited by Derleth predates Skull-Face and Others by two years and contains "The Black Stone."

[theagenes]

And here's Derleth's bio blurp for Howard:

[Patrice Louinet]

Very cool, Jeff. I had never read that blurb by Derleth.

[alfredbonnabel]

Wow, great finds theagenes and Patrice. I especially enjoyed reading that blurb from Derleth.

[Patrice Louinet]

Edited by Patrice Louinet, 03 December 2011 - 10:33 AM.

[Kortoso]

I want to blow on that smoke.

[Rob Roehm]

Here's the cover of Booth Mooney's Lone Scout tribe paper. Mooney is the guy that started The Junto, FYI.



Rob

[Rob Roehm]

And a little 8-page booklet from 1977. First edition, limited to 500 copies.



Rob