More collectibles posted
Regarding the many science fiction writers that I have in my collection of hardbacks and paperbacks, I have several of their works that are rare editions. The writers include Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and many more. See my latest postings of rare books below. My purpose, as mentioned before, is not to flip them by offering them for sale, but to simply let others know what is in my library.
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Conan – Red Nails, by Robert E. Howard, edited by Karl Edward Wagner.
BTW, I once interviewed Glenn Lord back around 1992-3 if memory serves. During our conversation he mentioned that when he acquired the rights to REH’s works, no one else had ever showed any interest in doing this so I gathered from Glenn Lord’s comments that the rights did not cost him much, if anything. Some years after that, when REH had become much more famous and everyone knew that Mr. Lord possessed the rights, a publisher contacted him and sent him an unsolicited check for $75,000 just to acquire any rights at all to publish some of REH’s works. Mr. Lord, not having solicited the publisher, and not having promised the publisher anything whatsoever, and actually not free at the time to transfer any REH rights, Mr. Lord simply kept the check! Nice work if you can get it, I suppose. All this I heard direct from Glenn Lord himself. I had approached Glenn Lord with the idea of his writing a review of one of my own novels, I think my Maalstrom novel, but he explained that he was really too busy to read it. Glenn Lord was very friendly and of good humor and I very much enjoyed my brief visit with him. I never saw him again.
Canaveral Press 1962 edition of ERB’s A Fighting Man of Mars, illus. by Mahlon Blaine.
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