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, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Dr. Keller’s Stories_, by John Haley / _Wit and Satire_, _Studies in Murder_, by August Derleth / _Gremlins_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number Four: Autumn, 1948. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _The Sign_, by Lord Dunsany / _Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight_, by August Derleth / _A Note on Aubrey Beardsley_, by Malcolm Ferguson / _Only to One Returned_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Spell Useful Near Water_, by Peter Viereck / _Nut Bush Farm_, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell / _The Unknown Land_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_, Conclusion, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Change of Heart_, by Robert Bloch / _Anterior Life_, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Machen Collection_, _Books of Magical Lore_, by August Derleth / _John Campbell’s Stories_, by John Haley / “_The World Is My Idea_,” by Robert Bloch / _A Cosmic Novel_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.

THE TRAVELLING GRAVE AND OTHER STORIES, by L. P. Hartley. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 235. $3.00. 2,047 copies printed. Contents: _A Visitor from Down Under_ / _Podolo_ / _Three, or Four, for Dinner_ / _The Travelling Grave_ / _Feet Foremost_ / _The Cotillon_ / _A Change of Ownership_ / _The Thought_ / _Conrad and the Dragon_ / _The Island_ / _Night Fears_ / _The Killing Bottle_.

THE WEB OF EASTER ISLAND, by Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 191. $3.00. 3,068 copies printed.

THE FOURTH BOOK OF JORKENS, by Lord Dunsany. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 194. $3.00. 3,118 copies printed. Contents: _Making Fine Weather_ / _Mgamu_ /_The Haunting of Halahanstown_ / _The Pale-Green Image_ / _Jorkens Leaves Prison_ / _The Warning_ / _The Sacred City of Krakovlitz_ / _Jorkens Practises Medicine and Magic_ / _Jarton’s Disease_ / _On the Other Side of the Sun_ / _The Rebuff_ / _Jorkens’ Ride_ / _The Secret of the Sphinx_ / _The Khamseen_ / _The Expulsion_ / _The Welcome_ / _By Command of Pharaoh_ / _A Cricket Problem_ / _A Life’s Work_ / _The Ingratiating Smile_ / _The Last Bull_ / _The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber_ / _A Deal with the Devil_ / _Strategy at the Billiards Club_ / _Jorkens in Witch Wood_ / _Lost_ / _The English Magnifico_ / _The Cleverness of Dr. Caber_ / _Fairy Gold_ / _A Royal Dinner_ / _A Fight with Knives_ / _Out West_ / _In a Dim Room_.

ROADS, by Seabury Quinn. With Illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 110. $2.00. 2,137 copies printed.

GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 228. $3.00. 3,047 copies printed. Contents: _Genius Loci_ / _The Willow Landscape_ / _The Ninth Skeleton_ / _The Phantoms of the Fire_ / _The Eternal World_ / _Vulthoom_ / _A Star-Change_ / _The Primal City_ / _The Disinterment of Venus_ / _The Colossus of Ylourgne_ / _The Satyr_ / _The Garden of Adompha_ / _The Charnel God_ / _The Black Abbot of Puthuum_ / _The Weaver in the Vault_.

NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. x., 221. $3.00. 2,067 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_ / _The Shadow on the Sky_ / _Birkett’s Twelfth Corpse_ / _The White Moth_ / _Nellie Foster_ / _Wild Grapes_ / _Feigman’s Beard_ / _The Drifting Snow_ / _The Return of Sarah Purcell_ / _Logoda’s Heads_ / _The Second Print_ / _Mrs. Elting Does Her Part_ / _A Little Knowledge_ / _Mrs. Bentley’s Daughter_ / _Those Who Seek_ / _Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream_ / _The Tenant_ / _The Lilac Bush_ / “_Just a Song at Twilight_” / _A Matter of Sight_ / _Prince Borgia’s Mass_ / _A Dinner at Imola_ / _Lesandro’s Familiar_ / _The Bridge of Sighs_ / _A Cloak from Messer Lando_ / _He Shall Come_ / _Mrs. Lannisfree_ / _After You, Mr. Henderson_ / _Baynter’s Imp_ / _The Lost Day_ / _A Collector of Stones_ / _The God-Box_ / _Saunder’s Little Friend_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number One: Winter, 1949. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 100. $1.00. 2,000 copies printed. Contents: _A Basic Science-Fiction Library_, by Forrest J. Ackerman, Everett Bleiler, David H. Keller, Sam Merwin Jr., P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, Lewis Padgett, Paul L. Payne, A. Langley Searles, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. Van Vogt, Donald Wandrei / _Avowal_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Spring Night_, by Ray Bradbury / _The Case for Science-Fiction_, by Sam Moskowitz / _Dear Pen Pal_, by A. E. Van Vogt / _The Pool in the Wood_, by August Derleth / _Solution of Mind Problems by the Imagination_, by Jules Verne / _The Swallowers of Universes_, by Peter Viereck / _David Henry Keller and the Scientific Novel in the United States_, by Regis Messac / _Time to Rest_, by John Beynon Harris / _Open Sesame!_, by Stephen Grendon / _Travel Talk_, by Vincent Starrett / _The Moon as Goal_, by Everett Bleiler / _Charles Williams’ Novel_, by Edward Wagenknecht / _From the Fan Presses_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _Frank Merriwell on Venus_, by Robert Bloch / _Factual Fantasies_, by Carl Jacobi / _Dr. Keller Again_, by Weaver Wright / _Whimsy and Whamsy_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number Two: Spring, 1949. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _The Root of Ampoi_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _Fragment_, by Vincent Starrett / “_The Mummy!_”, by Everett Bleiler / _Sed Non Satiata_, a poem after Baudelaire, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Feather from Lucifer’s Wing_, by Foreman Faulconer / _Lovecraft and the Stars_, by E. Hoffman Price / _The Saints of Four-Mile Water_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Technical Slip_, by John Beynon Harris / _The Last American_, by J. A. Mitchell / _Full Circle_, by Vincent Starrett / _The Realm of Redonda_, by August Derleth / “_Gougou_”, by P. Schuyler Miller / _Characterization in Imaginative Literature_, by Jack C. Miske / _Jamesian Spectres_, by August Derleth / _Two Bibliographies_, by Everett Bleiler / _The Devil and Miss Barker_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Christina_, by Joseph L. McNamara / _An Arkham Quartet_, by Edward Wagenknecht / _Messrs. Sturgeon, Williamson & DeCamp_, by August Derleth / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number Three: Summer, 1949. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _The One Who Waits_, by Ray Bradbury / _In the Year 2889_, by Jules Verne / _Hieroglyphics_, _Two Horsemen_, by Vincent Starrett / _Journey to the World Underground_,