LONG, Frank Belknap (1901-94). The Horror from the Hills, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1963, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, first issue, without the copyright notice.

LONG, Frank Belknap (1901-94). The Horror from the Hills, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1963, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, first issue, without the copyright notice.

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LONG, Frank Belknap (1901-94).  The Horror from the Hills. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1963. 8vo (187 x 125mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on the title. Original black cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the dust-jacket by Richard Taylor with a photographed portrait of the author on the lower wrapper and the price of $3.00 unclipped, grey endpapers (some faint staining to the lower wrapper and front turn-in of the jacket, an inconspicuous line of spots to the front and rear endpapers). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, first issue, without the copyright notice. A printed note at the end states: "Two thousand copies of this book have been printed by the Collegiate Press, George Banta Company, Inc., Menasha, Wisconsin, from linotype Garamond on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex." Please note that the original dust-jacket has been photographed in its modern protective archival Mylar wrapper, thereby avoiding any risk of damage through its temporary removal. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (1983) 1035; Currey Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography (1979) p.137; Jaffery The Arkham House Companion (1992) 76.