CRIMSON SHADOWS: The Best of Robert E. Howard.

Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator. Publisher's original blue cloth with red tiles and gilt illustrations to the spine and upper board, in the Jim Keegan and Ruth Keegan illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the blue cloth slipcase with illustrated onlay. With illustrated endpapers, a frontispiece, four further full page colour plates, black and white chapter headings and numerous in-text illustrations by Jim Keegan and Ruth Keegan. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrapper, which is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($150 to the front flap). With the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 750 copies of which this example is numbered 264 and signed by the illustrators Jim Keegan and Ruth Keegan in brown ink on the limitation page. There was also and edition of 50 numbered copies bound in leather and signed by the illustrators. Although stated 'Volume One' there were no subsequent volumes published. A collection of 28 stories including 'The Shadow Kingdom', 'The Ghost Kings', 'The Curse of the Golden Shell', 'Red Shadows', 'The One Black Stain', 'The Dark Man', 'The Marching Song of Connacht', 'Kings of the Night', 'Recompense', 'The Black Stone', 'The Song of a Mad Minstrel', 'The Fightin'est Pair', 'The Grey God Passes', 'The Song of the Last Briton', 'Worms of the Earth', 'An Echo from The Iron Harp', 'Lord of the Dead', 'Untitled', 'For the Love of Barbara Allen', 'The Tide', 'The Valley of the Worm', 'The Dust Dance: Selections, Version II', 'The People of the Black Circle', 'Beyond the Black River', 'A Word from the Outer Dark', 'Hawk of the Hills', 'Sharp's Gun Serenade', 'Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die'.