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Author:	William Hope Hodgson
Title:	The House On The Borderland
Subtitle:	From The Manuscript Discovered In 1877 By Messers. Tonnison And Berreggnog, In The Ruins That Lie To The South Of The Village Of Kraighten, In The West Of Ireland. Set Out Here, With Notes, By"
Publisher:	Ace
Country:	USA
Date:	1962
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	823.912
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Cat#:	D-553
Total Editions:	4
Rating:	8.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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published by Ace Books, Inc., 27 West 47th Street, New York 36, NY (USA) in the Ace Science Fiction Classic line in small "pocket" format paperback (undated, but identified as 1962 publication by Donald H. Tuck in his 3-volume Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction, q.v.)

159pp incl. 4pp titles etc. (1p author's intro "to the manuscript" dated 17/12/1907) (1p intro by D.A.W. = Donald A. Wollheim, Ace Books, Inc. editor) (1p 2-verse poem & dedication "to my father (whose feet tread the lost aeons)"), penultimate 2pp verse, "Shoon of the Dead", + 1 end p advert for other titles currently in the Ace Science Fiction Classics series. first paperback edition.

cover art (unattributed) by Ed Emshwiller (ided by Donald H. Tuck, ibid.)
cover price 35¢

first edition: Chapman & Hall, London hardcover 1908
cheap edition: Holden & Hardingham, London hardcover 1921

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ppint. 18th Feb 2022		ace books mmpb first printing cover art by ed emshwiller (unsigned, uncredited, attribution by donald h. tuck) cover price 35¢ 160pp. including four pp. titles, indica etc, 3 end pp: 2pp. ''shoon of the dead'' (poem), 1p. advertising



ppint. 29th Feb 2016		Rated 8/10 this would later be marketed by nick austin at granada publishing (yuk) in p/b as "weird fantasy" category fiction - which, together with the works of clark ashton smith, william hope hodgson's horror-tinged exotic fantasy came pretty well to define. - there are definite lineal literary connections with the "hidden worlds" novels of writers, such as h. rider haggard, with the "lost worlds" stories (dating at least as far back as pliny), with the martian & venusian novels of edgar rice burroughs and many later (& some better°) writers' fantasy & sf. - warning: purple prose is often to be found within such. ° - e.g. c. l. moore's collection of linked stories, "shambleau", leigh brackett's "the sword of rhiannon" (originally in thrilling wonder stories 6/1949 as "sea-kings of mars"), and, via robert e. howard & others's interminable "conan" stories, fritz leiber's wonderful "fafhrd and the grey mouser" stories and novel, "the swords of lankhmar" (q.v. all five or six books of the original series - plus all the other authors' titles given here :-) ) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 18th Feb 2022		sphere books p/b first printing(s?°), not first uk p/b edition (was granada / panther books p/b) cover art by terry oakes (unsigned, uncredited; in young artists agency portfolio 1980(?)) cover price 95p, 95c malta, $3.95 australia 176pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising ° -'there may have been more than one near-identical printing of this edition (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 18th Feb 2022		manor books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by e. salter (signed) cover price $1.50 192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising apparent isbn, 0-532-15304-7 given in indica is a fake: 053215304 would not give a checksum digit of 7. typesetting: may have been reproduced from the 6/1974 freeway press mmpb edition, modified to suit. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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William Hope Hodgson - The House On The Borderland - Panther - Paperback - UK - 586026827 (1972)

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William Hope Hodgson - The House On The Borderland - Manor Books - Paperback - USA (1977)

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William Hope Hodgson - The House On The Borderland - Sphere - Paperback - UK - 0722146701 (1980)