Jacobi, Carl REVELATIONS IN BLACK Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. 

The author's first published book. Twenty-one stories first published in the pulps, mostly in WEIRD TALES.

Condition: 8vo. 272 pp. (7.5" x 5.5") publishers' black cloth boards in near fine condition with bright gilt stamped titles to the spine. Spine tips lightly pushed and rear board slightly bowed. Binding tight, interior clean and unmarked. The Ronald Clyne designed dust jacket with the $3.00 price is in very good or better condition with some creasing to the edges and a bit of chipping to the fold and spine tips. 

Overall, a collectible and nicer than usual 1947 first edition of Carl Jacobi's twenty-one short tales of Fantasy, Science Fiction and the Weird. From the library of noted early Arkham and Fantasy Press Sci-fi collector George A. Richardson with his bookplate to the front flyleaf.