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Pan Demos, v. 1, issue 2, March 1949
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One Irving Smith, of San Diego, wrote the Post Office that we had defrauded him of $18.00, he had ordered three sets of the books, and later contacted us, saying that during his vacation he had looked us up in New York. However, the district in which we lived did not please him, and he did not bother to ring our bell. Furthermore, he had seen finished copies of the Fox Woman in Los Angeles, and therefore was advising us that unless we delivered his three copies of the book by return mail, we would really have trouble from him. This gentleman received a classic reply to this epistle from Hannes, personally, with a return of his money, and we never heard from him directly again. He did, however, manage to get a friend of his in Idaho to secure the books from us in her name. Then, came the fan speculator, that curious breed of reader-dealer who wants everything for nothing and wishes to sell it at the highest price the traffic will bear. Strangely enough they invariably succeed. The rising value of the Lovecraft books from Arkham House made these persons scramble to order copies of the books. Erroneous reports appeared hither and thither in fan mags about the Fox Woman being out and not a few parties had resold their copies in advance of publication at $7.50, but it was the same parties who screamed as if to raise the wrath of Gahenna about having to pay the full pre-publication price of $3.00 for the books. Again, it was these same few who recently advertised the Fox Woman at $15.00. The legend of the Fox Woman grows, assumes great proportions, as if it had been snowballed down the sides of Mount Everest The first and second proofs were read and re-read three times. and Hannes made his personal deletions and corrections, and we entrusted the corrected proofs to the printer. Three times we marked the same errors in the proofs, and even then, little attention was paid to our directions. The 12
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One Irving Smith, of San Diego, wrote the Post Office that we had defrauded him of $18.00, he had ordered three sets of the books, and later contacted us, saying that during his vacation he had looked us up in New York. However, the district in which we lived did not please him, and he did not bother to ring our bell. Furthermore, he had seen finished copies of the Fox Woman in Los Angeles, and therefore was advising us that unless we delivered his three copies of the book by return mail, we would really have trouble from him. This gentleman received a classic reply to this epistle from Hannes, personally, with a return of his money, and we never heard from him directly again. He did, however, manage to get a friend of his in Idaho to secure the books from us in her name. Then, came the fan speculator, that curious breed of reader-dealer who wants everything for nothing and wishes to sell it at the highest price the traffic will bear. Strangely enough they invariably succeed. The rising value of the Lovecraft books from Arkham House made these persons scramble to order copies of the books. Erroneous reports appeared hither and thither in fan mags about the Fox Woman being out and not a few parties had resold their copies in advance of publication at $7.50, but it was the same parties who screamed as if to raise the wrath of Gahenna about having to pay the full pre-publication price of $3.00 for the books. Again, it was these same few who recently advertised the Fox Woman at $15.00. The legend of the Fox Woman grows, assumes great proportions, as if it had been snowballed down the sides of Mount Everest The first and second proofs were read and re-read three times. and Hannes made his personal deletions and corrections, and we entrusted the corrected proofs to the printer. Three times we marked the same errors in the proofs, and even then, little attention was paid to our directions. The 12
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