Re: Russell Kirk Arkhams on E-Bay

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (paghat) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> 
> I too think those "golden age" Arkhams will hold their value & increase in
> value, no matter how many corrected definitive & complete editions come
> along in their wake. Their historical importance as true first editions
> cannot be taken from them, & there will never be quite enough fine copies
> to go around.
> 
> Of their modern editions of modern (mostly science fiction) writers, some
> of these will VERY SELECTIVELY skyrocket in value when out of print, but
> it's not the imprint that will define that, it will be the collectibility
> of the given author -- whoever has modern first edition cache weather
> issued by Harpers or Arkham or Doubleday or Allen & Unwin. The name Arkham
> doesn't SPOIL collectibility, it just no longer guarantees it.
> 
> -paghat the ratgirl
   Yes, I agree. Arkham, while publishing some wonderful sci-fi titles
during the Turner years, sort of lost its "roots". The pulp-reprint
banner seems to have been taken up by Fedogan and Bremer, while the
publishers you mentioned (Ash-Tree, Scarob, and Tartarus(sp?)) are
providing the initiative with both new and reprint horror--and let's
not forget Midnight House!
   I also have to put in a plug here for Golden Gryphon, which Turner
founded when he left Arkham and which has a superb list. I've read
about half of their 30 publications so far, and there's not a clinker
in the lot.
   I was very disappointed in the (apparent) demise of Necronomicon
Press, which was on a roll for awhile. Is it over, or just in
suspended animation? Can anyone help me here?
   Best,
   Charles Cunningham