Sixty Years of Arkham House

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Sixty Years of Arkham House

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Dust-jacket design by Allen Koszowski for Sixty Years of Arkham House
Author S.T. Joshi
Illustrator Allen Koszowski
Cover artist Allen Koszowski
Country United States
Language English
Subject Bibliography
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1999
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages viii, 281 pp
ISBN 0-87054-176-5
OCLC 42680266
070.5/09755/76 21
LC Class Z473.A68 S59 1999

Sixty Years of Arkham House is a bibliography of books published from 1939 to 1999 under the imprints of Arkham House, Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee. It was released in 1999 by Arkham House in an edition of approximately 3,500 copies. The book updates Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939-1969: A History and Bibliography adding extensive biographical and bibliographical notes.

Bibliography academic study of books as physical, cultural objects

Bibliography, as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology. Carter and Barker (2010) describe bibliography as a twofold scholarly discipline—the organized listing of books and the systematic description of books as objects.

Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. The colophon for Arkham House was designed by Frank Utpatel.

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1999.

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References

S. T. Joshi American writer

Sunand Tryambak Joshi, known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft, I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Joshi has prepared several annotated editions of works by Ambrose Bierce. He has also written on crime novelist John Dickson Carr and on Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood and M. R. James, and has edited collections of their works, as well as collections of the best work of numerous other weird writers.

International Standard Book Number Unique numeric book identifier

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