A private seller contacted me about selling me a number of the Robert E. Howard books I had on my want list, and we settled on a price of $725 plus shipping for some 40 titles. Some of those will go in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, but most are are going in my library and will take some time to list. I’ll start with the chapbooks, since they’re less challenging to shelve, and first among the chapbooks are these three, all published by Roy A. Squires. Many of those Robert E. Howard chapbooks were done in editions of a thousand or more, but these, in addition to being higher quality, were done in editions in the low hundreds.
Howard, Robert E. The Road to Rome. Roy A. Squires, 1972. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy in a Fine- envelope with slight wear at edges. Lord, The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert Ervin Howard, page 128. The Private Press of Roy A. Squires 17. Chalker/Owings, page 589.
Howard, Robert E. A Song of the Naked Lands. Roy A. Squires, 1973. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy in a Near Fine+ envelope with fold to flap and slight wear at edges. Lord, The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert Ervin Howard, page 130. The Private Press of Roy A. Squires 21. Chalker/Owings, page 589.
Howard, Robert E. Up, John Kane! Roy A. Squires, 1977. First edition chapbook original, a Fine- with one faint surface scratch and faint indentation through pages copy in a Fine- envelope with slight wear at edges. The Private Press of Roy A. Squires 33. Chalker/Owings, page 590.
I have quite a number of Squires chapbooks, I think just under half of the ones listed as actual publications in The Private Press of Roy A. Squires, so perhaps I should pick up the rest. I know I lack three more Howard chapbooks from Squires: Altars and Jesters, Black Dawn, and The Gold and the Grey. I’ve added those to the wanted list.
Tags: Books, chapbooks, Fantasy, poetry, Robert E. Howard, Roy A. Squires
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