Re: Russell Kirk Arkhams on E-Bay

"Charles Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (paghat) wrote in message
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> >
> > 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!

All wonderful presses, as are Subterranean, CD, etc. I believe it is much
too early to count Arkham House out. The upcoming CAS letter collection
alone attests to its continued ability to produce books of sustained
interest, in spite of the occasional less-than-lustrous title.

>    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.

It simply shows a continuation of the excellent taste Jim Turner demonstrate
d during his tenure at Arkham House. He may have strayed from the sort of
book that August Derleth and Donald Wandrei published, but I have no
complaints about the books he published: Shepard, Shea, Lee, Bishop, etc.,
etc., etc.

>    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

Necronomicon Press is back, but has not yet produced anything new.

Jim