Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Bloch, Robert. Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares. Arkham House, 1960.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 233pp. Text is clean on white pages. Bound in black cloth lettered in gold gilt on the spine; unmarked with pointed corners. Pale gray endpapers. Turquoise jacket is bright and protected in mylar; not clipped or torn.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert. Pleasant Dreams - Nightmares. Arkham House, 1960.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Description: 1st printing of this collection. 7.5x5.", 233 pp. VG, clean & tight, in VG dj.
Seller: Aardvark Book Depot, Shorewood, WI, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert. Pleasant Dreams. Arkham House, 1960.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From an edition of 2,000 copies. Black cloth with gilt spine titles, very good with light rubbing edgewear, lightly bumped spine ends. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good with light toning and a few light scuffs to rear panel, light edgewear. Cover price 4.00. Pages bright and unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Bloch,Robert. Pleasant Dreams. Arkham House, Sauk City,Wisconsin, 1960.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: previous owners name on front pastedown covered up by dw flap and some slight darkening to the spine letters
Seller: Always Superior Books, marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams by Robert Bloch (First edition). Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1960.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Pleasant Dreams by Robert Bloch (First edition) Firm square copy. Bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert. PLEASANT DREAMS. Arkham House, 1960.
Price: US$125.28 + shipping
Description: PLEASANT DREAMS, Arkham House, 1960, first edition, fine in like dust-wrapper. 1/2,000 copies. Collects the HUGO award winning THAT HELL BOUND TRAIN among many others.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert. Pleasant Dreams - Nightmares. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1960.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Nice copy with only mild wear to top end of spine. Limited to 2000. Signed book plate laid in.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Derleth published Bloch's first collection of short fiction, THE OPENER OF THE WAY (1945), as well as this major collection that includes many of his best modern post-WEIRD TALES dark suspense stories. Only 2060 copies were printed. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-45. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 210. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-31. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with tiny abrasion at fore-edge of front panel and some age-darkening along upper and lower extremities of flaps and along rear flap fold. An attractive copy. (#65937)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams Nightmares w/SIGNED plate. Arkham House, 1960.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Collection of 15 stories. Limied to 2000 copies. SIGNED plate laid in. Fine in VG jacket; spine darkened.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams - Nightmares By Robert Bloch. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1960.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1960. First Edition black Hardcover with DJ, 233 pp. Only 2060 copies printed. This copy has an illustrated autograph plate laid in and SIGNED in red ink by Bloch. Major collection of the best of Bloch's macabre tales from the 1940s and 1950s. Purchased new from publisher, read once. DJ has the usual toning at edges of DJ flaps and on sping. Book has my name-stamp on top text-block and ffep. Otherwise a very solid near fine copy.
Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1960.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: An as new copy that looks unread other than tanning pages. SIGNED by Bloch. All jackets in mylar wraps. DG
Seller: Copper Dragon Books, Cambria, CA, U.S.A.
Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams. Arkham House, 1960.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Collection of Horror stories. SIGNED on title page. 2000 copies published. Near fine; bookplate on inside front pastedown; in jacket; slight wear to heel of spine; light browning at the edges and folds.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert. PLEASANT DREAMS. Arkham House, 1960.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A collection of 15 stories written 1946-1958 mostly for Weird Tales. An edition of 2060 copies. Slight wear to head and heel of DJ spine o/w sharp and unfaded. Inscribed by Bloch.
Seller: Tim's Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert. Pleasant Dreams: Nghtmares (Signed). Arkham House, Sauk City WI, 1960.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Generically inscribed on the half-title: "Best Wishes! Robert Bloch" A nice copy of Bloch's second Arkham House book. Slight corner rubbing, jacket browned but unclipped. One of 2,060 copies, a moderately small print run for Arkham. An excellent short story collection by this fine writer.
Seller: The Other Change of Hobbit, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert. Pleasant Dreams. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1960.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 233pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing, one of only 2060 copies printed. Bloch's second anthology published by Arkham after "Opener of the Way" in 1945. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save perhaps a small gentle bump to the heel. No toning or foxing, Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($4.00), has a touch of rubbing to rear panel but still a Fine, fresh and bright example with no chipping, tears or creases and none of the of the common toning. A shgarp collectable copy. (Jaffery, Horrors & Unpleasantries, pg. 61-62).
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares by Robert Bloch (First Edition) Signed Tight copy. Minor wear to spine. Stamp from previous owner to front pastedown. Minor edgewear. Slight tanning. Clear protective cover. Not price-clipped First Edition. Original $4.00 price point. 233 pages. 1/2000 copies sold. Includes Bloch's Hugo Award winning story "The Hell-Bound Train". Signed and inscribed: "All the Best Wishes, From one I am To another-Robert Bloch". Black cloth cover with gilt.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert.. PLEASANT DREAMS.. ARKHAM HOUSE., SAUK CITY, 1960.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED by Robert Bloch on the front endpaper. Fine in a Nf. dj. (A few tiny edge nicks & hint of shelfwear at spine ends on dj.) 2,000 copies printed. Stories.; Signed by Author
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.