Roads

Author:		Seabury Quinn.
Publisher:		Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Binding:		Hardcover (black cloth) with dust-jacket.
Publication date:		1948.
Number of pages:		110 pages.
Original price:		$2.00.
Number of copies:		2137 copies printed.

'Roads' was Arkham House's first illustrated book and the author's first hardcover.

Back of dust-jacket

Spine

Front of dust-jacket

'Roads' contains 6 illustrations by Virgil Finlay.

• Cover of dust-jacket (roads)
• snow, page 1
• Claus fights the romans, page 4
• snow, page 5
• Claus rescues Erinna, page 36
• snow, page 37
• The Aelfmen, page 80
• snow, page 81
• Claus and Unna with Aelfmen, page 110

There exists at least one copy of the book that is signed by both Virgil Finlay and Seabury Quinn.

Front dust jacket flap signature Virgil Finlay

Half-title page signature Seabury Quinn

Notes
All drawings are reproduced in The Book of Virgil Finlay. The difference between the drawing in Weird Tales and the drawings in the book, as well as a preliminary sketch of the cover illustration is discussed on a separate page.

The story, in an unrevised edition, originally appeared in the January 1938 issue of Weird Tales magazine. It was originally published as a paperbound booklet.

Roads is a Christmas story that traces the origins of Santa Claus from the beginning of the Christian era. The story is split into three parts:

• The Road to Bethlehem
• The Road to Calvary
• The Long, Long Road

Roads was reissued by Red Jacket Press in 2005, as a fully authorized facsimile reproduction of the original Arkham House edition.