REH
Bookshelf - C
compiled
by Rusty Burke
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Cabell,
James Branch | Cambrensis | Canot,
Theodore | Carr,
Robert Spencer | Carrington,
Charles | The
Catholic Encyclopedia | Cellini,
Benvenuto | Chambers,
Robert W. | Chesterton,
G.K. | Chidsey,
Donald Barr | Clarke,
Joseph I. C. | Cobb,
Irvin S. | Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor | Comparetti,
Domenico | Compton's
Pictured Encyclopedia | Connor,
Ralph | Conrad,
Joseph | Cooper,
James Fenimore | Cooper,
Rev. William M. | Corbett,
James J. | Coronado,
Francisco Vasquez de | Cosmopolitan
| Crane,
Nathalia | Crane,
Stephen | Crockett,
David | Cummings,
Ray | Cunningham,
Eugene | Curiosa
of Flaggelants; History of Flaggellation | Curwood,
James Oliver
(1879-1958)
One
Who Walked Alone,
p. 92: "...he said he might come back next week and pick up
that book and another one -- that one by Cabell."
One Who Walked Alone, p. 264: [quoting letter
from REH] "I learn with interest your struggles with Cabell.
Hold on to it for a few days, until I can get over there.
I've never read that particular book, and I'd like to look
it over with you."
Cabell
is mentioned in Howard's humorous poem, "A Fable for
Critics."
The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
Eighth printing; first Modern Library edition.
New York: Modern Library, 1927 [originally published 1917].
30701; PQ1; GL; TDB. Still in HPU holdings.
New York: Robert M. McBride
& Co., 1927.
REH
reviewed this book in The Junto, date unknown; reprinted in
Amra #47 (August 1968), The Conan Grimoire (Baltimore:
Mirage Press, 1972), The Spell of Conan (New York: Ace
Books, 1980).
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[see Giraldus]
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Adventures of an African Slaver
Being a True Account of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in
Gold, Ivory and Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Own Story Told
in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer, and Now Edited with an
Introduction by Malcolm Cowley.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
30777; PQ2; GL; TDB.
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(1909-1994).
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1932
[SL 2 #63]: "Remember Robert Carr, 'the prophet of the
flamboyant younger generation'?
I've often wondered what ever became of him since he
dropped out of sight in the literary world.
Price writes me that he forsook American literature in
order to help build up Soviet Russia.
According to Price, he is holding down some sort of job
there, apparently a pretty good one."
[Carr had six stories published in Weird Tales,
prior to the publication of his first novel, The Rampant Age
(1928)]
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[See
"X, Dr. Jacobus"]
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An international work of reference on the constitution,
doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church. Edited
by Charles G. Herbermann et al.
15 volumes. New York: Robert Appleton Co., 1910.
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft , 1 July 1930
[SL 1 #39 (mistakenly dated "9 August 1930"), p. 51]:
"To further establish the identity of these first Celtic
invaders I here quote from The Catholic Encyclopedia which
contains a very exhaustive study of all Irish subjects."
Sources of the quotations are:
"Ogygia, or the Ancient
Island" is from the article "Ireland: Early
History," by E.A. D'Alton, in vol. 8, Infamy-Lapparent,
p. 98;
"The
Firbolgs…were kindred…" (which should be a separate
quotation from the foregoing), ibid., pp. 98-99.
His
quotation from Zimmer (q.v.) is from "Ireland: Irish
Literature," by Douglas Hyde, vol. 8, p. 118.
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Cellini, Benvenuto
(1500-1571)
The
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
(Translated by John Addington Symonds [1840-1893]).
30790 (as "Symonds, Addington - Benvenuto
Cellini"); PQ4; GL; TDB. [No edition specified]
Truett
Vinson to REH, ca. Fall 1925:
"I am under the impression that you liked this book... $1.50
and it is yours."
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(1865-1933).
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 10 August 1931:
"Some day I must read...those tales you mention by...
Chambers."
[This
may refer to the Chambers stories mentioned by Lovecraft in Supernatural
Horror in Literature: The King in Yellow (New York: F.
Tennyson Neely, 1895), "The Yellow Sign" (included in The
King in Yellow), The Maker of Moons (New York: G.P.
Putnam's Sons, 1896), and In Search of the Unknown (New
York, Harper and Brothers, 1904).]
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Chambers is
listed among those Howard refers to as "my favorite
writers."
or, the Sacrifice. A Romance. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. 30787; PQ2; GL; TDB.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1927.
30594; PQ2; GL; TDB.
New York: George H. Doran Co., 1921.
30808; PQ2; GL; TDB.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902.
30813; PQ2; GL; TDB.
New York: G.H. Doran Co., 1920.
30700; PQ2; GL; TDB.
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(1874-1936).
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932:
Chesterton is listed among a number of poets Howard likes.
REH to Emil Petaja July 23, 1935: "Glad you like the bits
of verse I sometimes use for chapter headings. They are mine,
except where due credit is given to the author—in
the past I have used quotations from Chesterton, Kipling, Poe,
Swinburne, and possibly others which I do not at present recall."
Tevis Clyde Smith, "Adventurer in Pulp,"
refers to Chesterton as one of Howard's favorite poets.
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, 6 August 1926:
"You're right. There
is great poetry being written now. G.K. Chesterton, for instance.
Especially that 'Lepanto.'"
[C.L. Moore to REH, 29 January 1935, quotes lines
from this poem.]
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924. 30703; PQ1; GL; TDB.
Still in HPU holdings.
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1927
[SL 1 #6]: "Several books I purchased on my trip [to Austin,
week of August 22], among them G.K. Chesterton's The Ballad of
the White Horse. Ever
read it? It's
great." [Quotes
Book I, ll. 235-238, 5-8, 13-17, 23-26, 46-50]
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1927 [SL 1
#7]: "Say, you should read The Ballad of the White Horse."
[Quotes Book IV, ll. 298-303; Book VI, ll. 108-118; Book
II, ll. 13-18; Book I, ll. 95-99, 86-90; Book II, ll. 5-8,
131-141; Book V, ll. 152-156]
"Skull-Face" (Weird Tales, October,
November, December 1929 [3 part serial]: heading for Chapter 8 is
from Book I, ll. 258-259; for Chapter 12 is from Book II, ll.
103-104; for Chapter 13 is from Book IV, ll. 68-69; for Chapter 16
is from Book II, ll. 16-18.
"The Moon of Skulls"
(Weird Tales, June 1930): heading for Chapter 1 is from
Book I, ll. 239-244; for Chapter 2 is from Book I, ll. 100-104;
for Chapter 4 is from Book III, ll. 104-107; for Chapter 5 is from
Book VI, ll. 235-236; for Chapter 6 is from Book VIII, ll.
295-298; for Chapter 7 is from Book IV, ll. 302-303.
“Iron Men” (“The Iron Man”) (Fight Stories,
June 1930): in an unpublished draft of this story, a character
“muttered a sports-writer parody of Chesterton’s lines, which
had once taken his fancy: ‘I call the muster of iron men / From
ship and ghetto and Barbary den / To break, and be broken God
knows when / And only God knows why.’” The lines echo Book II, ll. 69-72.
"Kings of the Night" (Weird Tales,
November 1930): heading for Chapter 3 is from Book IV, ll.
203-208.
"The Dark Man" (Weird Tales,
December 1931): heading is from Book IV, ll. 288-291.
"The Grey God Passes" (submitted to Weird
Tales ca. December 1931): heading is from Book III, ll.
367-368 (misquoted).
[C.L. Moore to REH, 29 January
1935: "I could quote Kipling for hours.
Or Chesterton. That was a grand scrap about 'King Alfred's battle-sword,
broken in his left hand'. What's
it from?" ("And
bare and bloody and aloft | They bore before their band | The body
of their mighty lord, | Colan of Caerleon, and the horde, | That
bore King Alfred's battle-sword | Broken in his left hand."
From Book VII, ll. 300-305.)]
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 25 July 1935: in
describing a painting titled "The Stoic," of an old Crow
Indian who had learned of his son's death, Howard says, "I
was reminded of Chesterton's lines, about the old Viking: | 'And a
man hopes, being foolish, | Till in white woods apart | He finds
at last the lost bird dead, | But a man can still hold up his
head, | Though nevermore his heart.'" From Book III, ll.
261-265, probably quoted from memory, as it is not verbatim.
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(1902-1981)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Elizabeth's Racketeer
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932.
30730; PQ1; GL; TDB. Still
in HPU holdings.
[Note
in PQ1: "On p. 2 of this book, a paragraph is carefully
underlined which might well have served as a description of one of
Howard's own characters. 'Contemporaries were fond of referring to
"gentle Humphrey."
It is well not to be misled. The man was anything but
"gentle" in the modern sense of the word. He was a
dreamer, yes, and a scholar; but he was also a man of action, who
on the field of battle could be as brutal, as bloodthirsty, as any
personage in history – far more so than most of them.'"]
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(1846-1925)
"The
Fighting Race."
C.L.
Moore to REH, 29 January 1935: "And
that four-line bit from Clarke, about 'Hessian blood on the
blade'..." [indicating that Howard had quoted these lines in
his letter to her.] Joseph
I.C. Clarke, "The
Fighting Race," in The Fighting Race, and Other Poems
and Ballads (American News Co., 1911), ll. 33-36: "My
grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill, | And fighting was not his
trade; | But his rusty pike's in the cabin still, | With Hessian
blood on the blade."
Howard
also wrote a parody ("Then Stein the peddler with rising
joy") on the fourth stanza of this poem, in REH to Tevis
Clyde Smith, ca. July 1930.
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(1876-1944)
Back Home
Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and
His People. New York:
George H. Doran Co., 1912. 30818;
PQ1; GL; TDB. Still
in HPU holdings.
[Note
in PQ1: "In this book, the bookplate of the Robert E. Howard
Memorial Collection has been placed on top of a larger bookplate
which reads, 'THIS BOOK IS THE PROPERTY OF THE CROSS PLAINS
CIRCULATING LIBRARY LOCATED AT THE CITY DRUG STORE.'" ] REH
to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. January 1934: "Some notable men
talk over the air; I've heard Irvin S. Cobb..."
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(1772-1834)
"The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
(1798).
Glenn Lord, in Zarfhaana
#8, October 1976, reported "...Lindsey Tyson telling me on
more than one occasion that REH memorized Coleridge's 'Rhyme of
the Ancient Mariner' in only two readings...."
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(1835-1927).
See "Sappho."
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Chicago:
F.F. Compton & Co. [No edition noted.] 10
volumes. 30569-30578; PQ2; GL; TDB.
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[pseudonym
of Charles William Gordon (1860-1937)]
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police
A
Tale of the Macleod Trail. New
York: Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, [1912].
30776; PQ1; GL; TDB. Still
in HPU holdings.
[Note
in PQ1: "The front free endpaper contains the ink inscription
'Robert E.| Howard Jan. 22, 1920'."
The final digit of the year has actually been obscured; I
believe it to be a "3."]
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[Teodor Jósef Konrad Korzeniowski] (1857-1924).
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932:
"I've never read any of Conrad's work."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , 6 March 1933: "I may
read Conrad some day. I don't know."
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(1789-1851)
A
Tale
30712; PQ2;
GL; TDB.
There
is no Cooper book by this title, but The Prairie (1827) is
so subtitled.
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[pseudonym
of James Glass Bartram (1824-1892)].
Flagellation and the Flagellants:
A History of the
Rod in All Countries From the Earliest Period to The Present Time.
London: J.C. Hotten, 1870.
30610 (as "A History of the Rod"); PQ2; GL
(listed under "Data on the following is incomplete and/or
questionable"); TDB.
[Note
in TDB: "Illustrated, and a list found in REH's papers
indicates he paid $7.50 for this, according to Lord, who suggests
this book and other flagellation erotica in REH's library may
reflect his unsuccessful try at writing for such pulp magazines as
Terror Tales and Thrilling Mysteries."
See Appendix Two.]
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(1866-1933)
The True Tale of the Rise and
Fall of a Champion. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.
30769; PQ2; GL; TDB.
Post Oaks and Sand
Roughs, p. 18:
"His only literature, practically, was The Saturday Evening
Post which was at the time running the life story of the great
James J. Corbett, written by himself.
Steve devoured this insatiately and read little else."
The Post serialized the book in six weekly
installments, 11 October through 15 November, 1924.
Howard wrote a parody, "The Bore of the
Cowed," in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, 6 April 1925.
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(c. 1500-1554)
"Nekht
Semekeht" heading
is a quotation from Coronado: "And what I am sure of is that
there is not any gold or any other metal in that country."
The quotation may have been taken from The Great Plains,
by Walter Prescott Webb (q.v.), ch. IV.2, p. 107.
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See Masters, Edgar Lee.
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(1913-
)
Harold
Preece, "The Last Celt," in The Last Celt,
p. 95: "I remember that Bob had bought several books during
the trip, and they were in sight.
One was a collection of verse by a talented child named
Nathalia Crane, then making a sizable splash in the American
literary world."
[The
trip mentioned was to Austin, Texas, ca. 22 August 1927, during
which REH and Preece first met.]
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Crane is
listed among a number of poets Howard likes.
and Other Poems.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925.
30625; PQ2; GL (title as "Laura Lane"); TDB.
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(1871-1900)
Mentioned
in Howard's parody, "King Hootus" (ca. January
1928).
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(1786-1836)
Life
of David Crockett
the original humorist and irrepressible
backwoodsman. An autobiography to which is added an account of his
glorious death at the Alamo while fighting in defense of Texan
independence. With an introduction by G. Mercer Adam. New York: The Perkins Book Co., 1903. 30668 (author as "Adam, G. Mercer"); PQ2 (same as
accessions list); GL (same as accessions list); TDB (author as
"Adam, G[raeme] Mercer (1839-1912)").
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(1887-1957)
"Explorers Into Infinity."
Weird Tales, April, May and June 1927 (3 part
serial).
REH
to The Eyrie, June 1927:
"Certainly no magazine has ever offered a tale as unique and
thought-inspiring as the serial by Mr. Cummings."
All-Story
Weekly, 15 March 1919.
Harold Preece to Lenore Preece, 16 January 1965 (in The
Howard Collector, vol. 2, no. 5, whole no. 11, Spring 1969;
reprinted in The Howard Collector, NY: Ace Books, 1979):
"I can remember one morning when we discussed the possibility
of being an inhabited world -- this because we had both read in
old Argosy Magazine a serial by Ray Cummings entitled 'The
Girl in the Golden Atom.'"
This story was not a serial; Preece may have been recalling
its sequel, "People of the Golden Atom," serialized in
1920; both were published in book form as The Girl in the
Golden Atom.
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(1896-1957)
Triggernometry:
A Gallery of Gunfighters
With Technical Notes on Leather
Slapping as a Fine Art, gathered from many a Loose Holstered
Expert over the Years. New
York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1934. 30844; PQ2; GL; TDB.
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2 Vols. in One. Facetious
anecdotes of ladies fond of administering birch discipline.
The provocative experiences of flagellants of both sexes,
as told by a flagellant. Illustrated
with old drawings. n.p.:
Privately printed, n.d. 30591;
PQ3; GL; TDB.
[A
list found among REH's papers indicates he paid $3.00 for this
book. See Appendix
Two.]
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(1878-1927)
The Valley of Silent Men
A Story of the Three River
Country. New York: The Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1920. 30705; PQ2;
GL; TDB.
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