To include:

Manly Wade Wellman. WORSE THINGS WAITING. Chapel Hill, NC: Carcosa, 1973. Stated first edition. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with red lettering on spine, in illustrated jacket. 8vo; 352pp. Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye.

Hugh B. Cave. MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS. Chapel Hill, NC: Carcosa, 1977. Stated first edition. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with red lettering on spine, in illustrated jacket. 8vo; 475pp. Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye.

L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp, Jane Whittington Griffin. DARK VALLEY DESTINY: THE LIFE OF ROBERT E. HOWARD. [New York]: Bluejay Books, 1983. Signed limited edition. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth-covered boards with silver lettering, illustrated endpapers, in illustrated jacket and blue cloth slipcase. 8vo; 402pp. with index. This is #870 of 1000 copies. Signed by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp on the front limitation page. Jacket and endpaper art by Kevin Eugene Johnson.

Private North Carolina Collection

Murgunstrumm and Others was the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection/Anthology in 1978.

Carcosa was a small publishing company started by two writers in North Carolina. While it published only four books in eight years, the titles are highly collectable and important for both their illustrations and their contributions to the horror and fantasy genres.

Carcosa books very good in very good jackets. Wellman title with head and tail of spine bumped, light toning to pages, light mark to back board; jacket scuffed, with (1) small stain and edgewear, not price clipped. Cave title with spine lightly rubbed at head and tail, slight separation from text block, marks and scuffing to edges; jacket toned, with edgewear and several closed tears, not price clipped. De Camp title with head of spine lightly bumped, slight separation from text block, small tear and loss to front paste-down endpaper; jacket not price clipped; very good to near fine in near fine slipcase.