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Published by Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1939
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition Signed
First Editions. First Printings, one of 1,268 copies. Two octavo volumes (24cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spines; dustjackets; xiv,553,[5]pp. The present offering consists of two unique copies:- Copy 1: Trivial wrinkling to cloth at crown, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.00), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with shallow loss to base of spine, and some light dust-soil and waviness to rear panel; Very Good+. Inscribed vertically along the left margin of the rear flap by dustjacket designer Virgil Finlay: "This jacket is a photographic composite of early Weird Tales drawings, probably only one or two were for HPL stories - I wish I might have found time for more of his work which I did admire / Virgil Finlay." Housed in a custom half-morocco clamshell case. - Copy 2: Trivial wear to lower board edges, faint dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, with mild offsetting and some faint, scattered foxing to endpapers; Near Fine. Inscribed by Arkham House co-founder Donald Wandrei on front endpaper: "For Priscilla and the goon Donald Wandrei / Christmas, 1939." In the apparently unique trial dustjacket, printed in green instead of blue, with the flaps and rear panel without text; light wear and a few tiny tears to extremities, hint of sunning to spine, with a faint vertical fold along rear joint, and some mild dust-soil to rear panel; holograph printer's measurements (in ink) across base of spine panel; Very Good+. For the sake of completion, offered together with a Fine copy of the replica dustjacket produced in the 1970's by specialty publisher and collector Gerry de le Ree, from Finlay's original plates. Folded and laid into this copy are examples of the publisher's original prospectus (measuring 7.25" x 7.75"), as well as an earlier, mimeographed announcement letter (measuring 8.5" x 11"). Housed in a custom half-morocco clamshell case. The first major collection of Lovecraft's weird fiction and the first production by the legendary Arkham House - a landmark in 20th century genre publishing. The 32 stories written for various pulp magazines were gathered and preserved by Lovecraft's friends, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, who founded Arkham House in 1939 to preserve and publish the best of Lovecraft's fiction. The stories "range from early exercises in Dunsanian pastiche to the mature and highly distinctive tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, which construct a horrific cosmological and historical context for human history. Luckless protagonists who stumble upon various dire intrusions of Cthulhu and his kin, or who unwisely pursue dangerous inquiries in the appropriate revelatory tomes, are inevitably brought to repulsively stick ends. Lovecraft became the consummate master of the confirmatory ending, in which what has been suspected all along finally becomes manifest" (Barron, Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide 3-132). It took Derleth and Wandrei nearly five years to sell through the modest print run, and The Outsider has not been reprinted since. Enclosed with the present copies are a five letters (written between May 10, 1937 - November 26, 1939) between the Arkham House principals, detailing both the publication history of The Outsider, as well revelatory background information concerning the dustjacket design by Virgil Finlay (1914-1971). In his time, Finlay was among the most in-demand illustrators of fantasy, science fiction, and horror literature in the United States, and his panoramic composition for The Outsider's dustjacket remains among the best executed and most desirable examples in the genre. According to a letter to Derleth from Adolph J. Hyson (of the George Banta Publishing Company), proofs for the dustjacket were struck in three colors - black, bronze blue, and a dark olive green. Both the black and green versions of the dustjacket were vetoed by all involved the black on account of having "a strangely flat and monotonous effect, without depth or life. Second, and more important, certain of the figures, such as the monkey-like and ass-like creatures to the right of the topmost star containing the woman's figure behind the lettering "By", faded away to almost absolute imperceptibility in black, but stood out with fairly well defined clarity in the blue" (DW to VF, Nov.14, 1939). The green jacket was dismissed right out, and described by Wandrei as being "a peculiarly detestable and odious color." It is not clear how many examples of either the black or green trial state dustjackets survived after being scrapped, though all of the predictably few extant examples originated with the personal collection of Donald Wandrei, sold close to four decades ago. Joshi 15.
Published by New York: A.L. Burt o.J.
Seller: Antiquariat im Kaiserviertel | Wimbauer Buchversand, Dortmund, NRW, Germany
Book Signed
Leinen. 388 Seiten In: William H. Prescott: History of the Conquest of Peru.- Mit eigenhändigem Namenszug von Lovecraft und seiner Adresse sowie seiner eigenen Inventarnummer seiner Büchersammlung.- Von grösster Seltenheit.- H.P. Lovecraft's copy with his name and address and personal library code handwritten on the front free end page. Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescott's masterly History of the Conquest of Mexico, continues his vivid chronicle of Spanish exploits in the New World. The book's commanding vision of Pizarro's tumultuous overthrow of the Inca empire has secured its reputation as a classic in the literature of Latin American history.- Kanten berieben / bestossen, Vorsatzfalze angeplatzt, kleines Eseloshr an ersten Blatt, papierbedingte Seitenbräunung.- Please ask for international shipping befor buying (insurance costs) /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee /// Standort Wimregal kxx Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 767.
Published by Arkham House, 1939
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Includes a SIGNED handwritten postcard by H.P. Lovecraft laid into the book. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in excellent shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy of this true first edition. We buy Lovecraft First Editions. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Arkham House, Sauk City, 1943
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine titles, octavo, 458 pages. The second omnibus collection of Lovecraft's tales and other material. The fourth book issued by Arkham House. 1217 copies printed (the earlier companion volume, THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS [1939], had a larger print run). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1041. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-158. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-132. Joshi I-A-17. Accompanied by three letters from August Derleth to Clark Ashton Smith, discussing dust jacket art. Also includes a prepublication announcement card and a subsequent information card, as well as a letter from Derleth verifying an order for copies of Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Light rubbing at head and tail of spine and at corners of boards, text block is faintly age toned, but clean, unmarked, and tight in binding. Scarce dust jacket is slightly rubbed at spine head and tail and at corner tips. Overall near fine to fine condition. Signed by Author(s).
Published by [N.p., Providence and North Montpelier, Vermont, 1933
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
11 sonnets: five printed poems (two in proof) and six typescript leaves, signed in type ("H. P. Lovecraft" or "Howard P. Lovecraft", the second without such signature). 1 vols. 4to and smaller. Lovecraft's 'Evening Star' and other Fungi from Yuggoth. A nice private compilation of poems by H. P. Lovecraft, eleven sonnets in the Fungi from Yuggoth cycle, including his celebrated "Evening Star", "The Port", and "Antarktos". The eleven poems are stapled in a pink wrapper with manuscript title in black ink "Poems / Lovecraft / See also poem 'Revelation' in correspondence sheets," and signed Walter J. Coates, publisher of Driftwind, in which many Lovecraft works were printed. Comprising: 1) a leaf of Driftwind Press letterhead with three newsprint clippings mounted ("The Well," "Night-Gaunts," and "The Dweller," all published in The Providence Journal in the spring of 1930. 2) "The Port," typescript (ribbon), "Ten miles from Arkham I had struck the trail.", first published in Driftwind, Nov. 1930. 3) "XV. ANTARKTOS," typescript (ribbon), first published in Weird Tales, Nov. 1930. 4) "The Canal" and "The Gardens of Yin," proofs, headed Driftwind, p. 34, on the verso of a half sheet of Driftwind letterhead, inscribed and signed at bottom "March issue, 1932 / Walter J. Coates." 5) "Evening Star," typescript (ribbon), with pencil note at top "This is to be used in 'Driftwind'". It was not, and was published in Pioneer, Autumn 1932. 6) "Mirage," typed manuscript (ribbon), first published in Weird Tales Feb./Mar. 1931. With note at foot: Set to music by Harold Farness [i.e., Farnese] of the Los Angeles Inst of Music. [Farnese set two sonnets to music in the summer of 1932]. 6) "Continuity," typescript (ribbon), first published in Causerie Feb 1936. 7) "Hesperia," typescript (ribbon), Weird Tales Oct. 1930, with stapled note in an editor's hand querying a word, and a note in another hand confirming the difference is present in its publication in Weird Tales. Lovecraft wrote the sonnets in the Fungi from Yuggoth cycle in a remarkable burst of creativity from 27 December 1929 to 4 January 1930. He began publishing them in newspapers and the amateur press almost immediately, and then in Weird Tales; he did not always keep track of where he had submitted the poems. The sonnets were not published in collected form during Lovecraft's lifetime though they did circulate in typescript (his friend Clark Ashton Smith had an early typescript of 33 poems); a mimeograph edition (of 33 poems) was published in 1943, in the same year that Arkham House published the complete series of 36 in Beyond the Wall of Sleep. David E. Schultz gives a detailed discussion of the circulation of the typescripts and the early publication history. Walter Coates (1880-1941) was a friend and correspondent of Lovecraft's, and published in all ten of the Fungi from Yuggoth in Driftwind, which Coates founded in 1926 to publish contemporary poetry and prose (from Vermont and elsewhere), and to reprint Vermont literature. Coates edited and published Driftwind for fifteen years, and Paul Cook printed In Memoriam Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1941) at the Driftwind Press. A CHOICE PRIVATE COMPILATION OF LOVECRAFT'S SONNETS BY A CONTEMPORARY EDITOR. See Fungi from Yuggoth, An Annotated Edition. Edited by David E. Schultz (Hippocampus Press, 2017) Stapled in pink wrapper titled in black ink. A few chips and soilmarks, but fine 11 sonnets: five printed poems (two in proof) and six typescript leaves, signed in type ("H. P. Lovecraft" or "Howard P. Lovecraft", the second without such signature). 1 vols. 4to and smaller.
Published by [Privately published], New York, 1923
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [i-ii] iii-vii [viii] ix-x [xi-xii] 1-72 [73-78] [note: first three and last three leaves are blanks], inserted frontispiece with photographic portrait of Hoag, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g. An associational copy bearing the bookplate of James F. Morton, Jr. who was a friend of Lovecraft's and member of the Kalem club in New York. This privately printed book was anonymously edited by Lovecraft, who contributed the preface and six poems. It is a presentation copy (as are most) with signed inscription by Hoag dated 27 August 1923 to James F. Morton, Jr., on recto of second blank. Jonathan Ethan Hoag (1831-1927), a New York poet living in and around Troy, entered amateur journalism late in life. Lovecraft wrote birthday poems for Hoag from 1918 to 1927. While editing Hoag's POETICAL WORKS, Lovecraft, along with Samuel Loveman and James F. Morton, revised some of Hoag's poetry. Morton also assisted in the publication in the reading of the final page proofs for the book. The book, privately printed at Hoag's expense in 1923, constituted the first appearance of a work by Lovecraft in hardcover. Lovecraft waived "all monetary remuneration for my share of the editing" in exchange for twenty copies of the book. Morton was one early on urged Lovecraft to submit stories to the new magazine Weird Tales. Joshi I-D-i-2. Bookplate of James F. Morton, Jr. affixed to front paste down. Extensive penciled notes to front free end paper concerning the volume and Morton, text block toned, corners bruised, gilt to spine perished, a very good copy. (30661).
Published by Hippocampus Press, 2009
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Two volume set of letters between the two titans of the Fantasy genre. Very limited hardcover run. SIGNED by editor Joshi on the title page. Each volume is Fine, unread, in jacket. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Necronomicon Press, Warwick, Rhode Island, 1977
Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition, 1st Printing. A nice collection of the first six Necronomicon Press publications. All volumes are numbered and four are signed by the editor Marc Michaud. The United Amateur (SIGNED #328) 1976, First Writings Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner 1906 (SIGNED #411) 1976, Herbert West Reanimator (#42) 1977, The Conservative (SIGNED #33) 1977, The Tryout (#222) 1977, The Californian (SIGNED #82) 1977. Volumes have some light wear and soiling. Pages are complete and secured with the original staples. A good+ set of the early Lovecraftian publications that kicked off the 1970's resurgent interest in the obscure writer.
Published by Rantoul, IL: Avatar Press, issued in 2017, 1st Edition, Correct Printings as ISSUED ( 5th, 2nd, 1st ), Illinois, 2017
ISBN 10: 1592912966ISBN 13: 9781592912964
Book First Edition Signed
Hard Cover and Softcover. Condition: Very Fine (see description). Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows (illustrator). First Edition. -----------7 volumes in slipcase ---5 hardcovers plus two softcovers (softcovers are the same issue { # 12 } with variant covers ), all contents and slipcase are Very Fine examples, ---this contains Neonomicon (volume 1 of the set -5th printing as ISSUED with the boxed set ), Providence 1, 2 and 3 ( Books 2, 3 and 4 of the set - 2nd printing indicated in book one as ISSUED with the boxed set ), Dreadful Beauty: The Art of Providence (book 5 of the set -a 1st edition, 1st printing -no additional printings indicated), plus 2 softcovers (books 6 and 7 of the 7 volume set), the two softcovers are the same issue ( #12 of Providence ---which is also part of the Providence hardcover volume 3 ), ---DREADFUL BEAUTY is the art of Providence with all art being in b&w (includes COVERS, LOCATIONS and LANDSCAPES, DREAMSCAPES, PANTHEON, PEOPLE, NEONOMICON, The COURTYARD, YUGGOTH CULTURES; PROVIDENCE INTERIOR ART, CHARACTER DESIGNS, PANTHEON DESIGNS) ---Dreadful is one of 250 copies signed by MOORE and BURROWS and has a signed COA from Avatar Press signed by Christensen, ---as well laid into Dreadful (as issued) is a Providence Aklo Table insert (an alphabetic code sheet to decipher AKLO script), ---the two softcovers are variants with one having a leather cover (as stated on cover) and the other depicting GHOUL FEAST, ---all 7 volumes are housed in a FINE slipcase ---overall a set in new condition ---PLEASE NOTE: the Dreadful COA states that it (DREADFUL BEAUTY) is one of 250 copies but AVATAR sold signed copies of DREADFUL individually so there are NOT 250 slipcased sets issued, the number of slipcased sets is more like in the 100-150 sets range but this I do not know for sure, --no matter this is a lovely as new set which pays homage to HPL and showcases MOORE and BURROWS brilliantly, any image directly beside this listing is the actual item and not a generic photo /// SIGNED (ONE BOOK SIGNED ) ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 7w x 10.5h Inches. Signed (see description).
Published by Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944
Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition, 1st Printing. S. T. Joshi's copy of Marginalia with his signature on the rear paste down. This copy has significant cosmetic wear. The binding is solid and pages are clean. The titles have faded from the cloth binding. spine ends are frayed and there is some soiling to the covers. Jacket is torn and shipped all around. A unique copy. Marginalia was collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. 1944. pp. x., 377. $3.00. 2035 copies. The jacket design is a reproduction of Virgil Finlay's illustration for H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shunned House," from Weird Tales, October 1937. Derleth first introduced Marginalia on the back of Clark Ashton Smith's book Lost World published by Arkham House the same year. He writes that "this third book by the late H.P. Lovecraft is one of many surprises. Admittedly a "loose ends" book, it contains early prose by the master, certain ghost-written pieces, revisions, and essays, together with fragments. Here are The Thing in the Moonlight, Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, Medusa's Coil; here are appreciations of H.P.L. by Frank Belknap Long and others; there are photographs of Lovecraft, his study, his script, his drawings, making Marginalia an associational item you cannot afford to be without. CONTENTS: ï Foreword by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei ï Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by Houdini ï Medusa's Coil by Zealia Brown (Reed) Bishop ï Winged Death by Hazel Heald ï The Man of Stone by Hazel Heald ï Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction ï Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction ï Lord Dunsany and His Work ï Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms ï Some Backgrounds of Fairyland ï Some Causes of Self-Immolation ï A Guide to Charleston by South Carolina ï Observations on Several Parts of North America ï The Beast in the Cave ï The Transition of Juan Romero ï Azathoth ï The Book ï The Descendant ï The Very Old Folk ï The Thing in the Moonlight ï Two Comments ï His Own Most Fantastic Creation by Winfield Townley Scott ï Some Random Memories of H. P. L. by Frank Belknap Long ï H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation by T. 0. Mabbott ï The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H.P. Lovecraft in Florida by R.H. Barlow ï Lovecraft and Science by Kenneth Sterling ï Lovecraft as a Formative Influence by August Derleth ï The Dweller in Darkness by Donald Wandrei ï To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Clark Ashton Smith ï H. P. L. by Henry Kuttner ï Lost Dream by Emil Petaja ï To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Francis Flagg ï H.P. Lovecraft by Frank Belknap Long ï Elegy: In Providence the Spring by August Derleth ï For the Outsider: H.P. Lovecraft by Charles E. White ï In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft by Richard Ely Morse with illustrations, photographs, and drawings by Lovecraft with a reproduction of Lament for H. P. L. by Alfred Galpin.
Published by Arkham House, Sauk City, 1945
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3041 copies printed. Signed inscription by Derleth on the front free endpaper: For John Wasso / with the most eerie regards / Sincerely / August Derleth." A Cthulhu mythos novel written by Derleth based on Lovecraft notes and fragments. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with 14 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel. A lovely copy. (#162619).
Published by Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2011, 1st Centipede and 1st Revised Edition, First Printing, Lakewood, Colorado, 2011
ISBN 10: 1933618922ISBN 13: 9781933618920
Book First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine (see description). Harry O Morris (signed) (illustrator). First Edition. ----------( !st printing of the First revised Edition ) --- hardcover, about 7 x 11 inches, a Fine example, in a Near Fine/Fine slipcase with a wee bit of very light rubbing, no dustjacket as issued, signed by LIGOTTI and MORRIS, this is #74 of the numbered limited edition of 500, ---contents include: Preface ( new ) by Ligotti; --- Three Scientists - "One Thousand Painful Variations Performed Upon Divers Creatures Undergoing the Treatment of Dr. Moreau, Humanist", "The Excruciating Final Days of Dr. Henry Jekyll, Englishman", "The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein, Citizen of Geneva"; --- Two Immortals ---"The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God", "The Insufferable Salvation of Lawrence Talbot the Wolfman"; --- Leading Men - "The Intolerable Lesson of the Phantom of the Opera", "The Unbearable Rebirth of the Phantom of the Wax Museum"; --- Gothic Heroines -"The Perilous Legacy of Emily St. Aubert, Inheritress of Udolpho", "The Eternal Devotion of the Governess to the Residents of Bly"; --- Loners - "The Unnatural Persecution, by a Vampire, of Mr. Jacob J.", "The Superb Companion of André de V., Anti - Pygmalion"; --- Shut-Ins - "The Ever-Vigilant Guardians of Secluded Estates", "The Scream, from 1800 to the Present"; --- A Poe Anthology - "The Transparent Alias of William Wilson, Sportsman and Scoundrel", "The Worthy Inmate of the Will of the Lady Ligeia", "The Interminable Residence of the Friends of the House of Usher"; --- The Works and Death of H P Lovecraft - "The Fabulous Alienation of the Outsider, Being of No Fixed Abode", "The Blasphemous Enlightenment of Prof. Francis Wayland Thurston of Boston, Providence, and the Human Race", "The Premature Death of H. P. Lovecraft, Oldest Man in New England -----This new edition of Thomas Ligotti s brilliant vignettes is a cause for celebration. Not only has the text been substantially revised by Thomas Ligotti, but artist Harry O. Morris has created eleven new artworks for the book. The text is gorgeously set and designed. Each copy is signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris. The book also has a new introduction by Ligotti. It comes bound in printed cloth with a back panel velvet cloth, two ribbon markers, and is housed in a handsome slipcase ---a beautiful book , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 7w x 11h Inches. Signed by Illustrator and Author.
Published by Gollancz, London, 1968
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English Edition. Lovecraft, H. P. & August Derleth. THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD. London: Gollancz, 1968. First English Edition. A FINE copy in a virtually FINE, priced (25 shillings) dustjacket, the tiniest of blemishes to both book and jacket but it has exceptionally good eye appeal without any of the usual problems that plague the bright yellow Gollancz dust jackets of the era. INSCRIBED BY AUGUST DERLETH on the front-free endpaper in ink: "To _____/ the earliest horror novel/ August Derleth." We're not aware of Derleth having signed many other First English Lovecraft editions. This is only the second time we've handled one in twenty years of selling a lot of Lovecraft so we suspect there's some genuine scarcity here. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, New York, 1975
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. Illustrated. 510 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed: 'for my favorite editor'. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, "For my favorite editor, Judy Lynn Del Rey, from L. Sprague de Camp" Presentation copy of this pioneering biography, by a prolific author who was unsympathetic if not actively hostile to his subject. De Camp notably discussed the "questionable" nature of August Derleth's assertions of control of the Lovecraft copyrights. The fine working title, Eldritch Yankee Gentleman, was nixed by the publisher. Inscribed to editor Judy-Lynn del Rey (1943-1986), editor at Ballantine Books and then editor-in-chief of the Del Rey Books imprint at Random House. "At the time of her death, she had become the dominant figure in US sf and fantasy publishing" (SFE). A number of de Camp's books were published by Ballantine and Del Rey (including the paperback edition of this biography). An important book in Lovecraft's posthumous career and a nice association. Currey p. 136 Original black cloth-backed rose boards, Fine copy in near fine dust jacket (advance price clipped, faintest toning. Advertising circular loosely inserted. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf Illustrated. 510 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Derleth on ffep. First Edition. 3000 copies printed [3041 per Jaffery]. Navy cloth boards stamped gold on spine (little bit of rubbing to gold). Head of spine shows some pushing. Ex-libris bookplate on front pastedown (and handwritten number in upper corner). Dust jacket shows light wear at spine ends and corners; short closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel; not price clipped ($2.50). DJ in archival sleeve. 196 pp. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne. A clean copy. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Privately Published, New York, 1923
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
New York: Privately Published:, 1923. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED and inscribed, Near Fine sans dust jacket as issued, 72 pp. A clean, straight and tight copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on second blank. Text block with just a hint of toning to extremities and foil stamping on spine lightly chipped. Lovecraft contributes the preface and six poems. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED and inscribed, Near Fine sans dust jacket as issued,
Published by Minneapolis, MN: Fedogan & Bremer / F&B, 2012, 1st Edition, First Printing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2012
ISBN 10: 0985152214ISBN 13: 9780985152215
Book First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Fine (see description). Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (see description). Gahan Wilson Cover Art (signed), Tim Kirk (signed) Endpapers (illustrator). First Edition. ----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Very Fine example, in a Fine dustjacket, a very tiny bit of rippling to the jacket from an old mylar protector, housed in a Near Fine/Fine slipcase, # 99 of 100 limited edition signed copies, signed by all contributors, this contains: INTRODUCTION -Familiar Haunts by Price / STORIES: There Are Kings-- Richard Lupoff / Envy, The Gardens of Ynath, and the Sin of Cain-- Darrell Schweitzer / The Arcade-- Will Murray / The Chaos Blade-- Adrian Cole / Evacuation Day-- Will Murray / The Statement of Frank Elwood-- Pete Rawlik / The Testament of Alexander Fletcher-- K.M. Tonso / The Serpents of Tenoka-- Ron Shiflet / The Journal of Thomas Gedney-- Pete Rawlik / The Tower of Mormoroth-- Gary Myers / The Signal Station-- Rafe McGregor, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 8.5h Inches. Signed (see description). NOT Price Clipped.
Published by Linkenheim: Ed. Phantasia;., 1985
ISBN 10: 3924959013ISBN 13: 9783924959012
Book Signed
19 cm. 127 S., mont. Künstlerportrait (signiert). Oln. - OS. Gut bis sehr gut. Aus der Bibliothek der Fantasy-Autorin und Übersetzerin Verena C. Harksen mit Namen vorne im Einband. "Supernatural Horror in Literature entstand 1927 als Essay und gilt unter Literaturwissenschaftlern und Kennern als die bis heute (sic) beste kurzgefaßte Einführung in die Geschichte der Phantastik." - Eins von 1000 num. Exemplaren. Mit Portrait von Lovecraft, handsigniert vom Künstler Helmut Wenske. Sprache: deutsch.
Published by Franklin Watts, New York, 1977
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Prosser, Bill (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, hardcover, inscribed by Hoke on the dedication page, has moderate bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, slight rubbing with mild edge wear to the covers, and a tiny remainder dot to the head of the text block at the binding. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, Very Good copy in an unclipped, Good+ dust jacket, which has chips and tears to the spine ends, edges and corners, as well as faint sunning to the spine, and some rubbing to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available upon request.
Published by Gollancz, Great Britain, 2008
ISBN 10: 0575081562ISBN 13: 9780575081567
Seller: SkylarkerBooks, CARSON CITY, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1ST. Outstanding Copy - Signed By Stephen Jones The Title Page. A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Are Clean. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered.No Dust Jacket As Issued. Thanks And Enjoy. Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Necronomicon Press, West Warwick, 1976
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
West Warwick: Necronomicon Press:, 1976. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, Fine sans dust jacket. 146 pp. This edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by editor Marc Michaud. with very modest edgewear. Yes, it's a hardcover, specially-bound book, but the contents, including the statement of limitation page, match exactly with the paperbpund edition. As far as we know - one of a kind. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, Fine sans dust jacket.
Published by Gerry de la Ree, Saddle River, 1974
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Stephen E. Fabian (illustrator). Saddle River: Gerry de la Ree:, 1974. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, Fine sans dust jacket as issued, 58 pp. Cover artwork by: Stephen E. Fabian This edition is one of 55 copies produced in hardcover expressly for subscribers who are named on the statement of limitation page. Signed also bt Stephen Fabian by way of a self-adhesive lable affixed to the front paste-down. Beautiful. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, Fine sans dust jacket as issued,
Published by Gollancz, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 0575099356ISBN 13: 9780575099357
Seller: All-Ways Fiction, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. Edwards, Les (illustrator). First Edition. Special Collectors Edition Signed by Stephen Jones( edited by) on the title page - signature only. Leather Boards with Gold lettering. First edition, full number line. Book is in Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. No store stamps Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Thanks and Enjoy. All-ways well packaged, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Signed by Editor. Book.
Published by Gollancz, England, 2011
ISBN 10: 0575099356ISBN 13: 9780575099357
Seller: SkylarkerBooks, CARSON CITY, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Edwards, Les (illustrator). 1ST. Outstanding Copy - Signed By Stephen Jones On The Title Page. A - British - First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Fine Condition. Leather Boards With Gold Lettering. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Are Clean. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. . Thanks And Enjoy. Signed by Editor. Book.
Published by Necronomicon Press, West Warwick, RI, 1999
Seller: OUTSIDER ENTERPRISES, Brockville, ON, Canada
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Schank, Donald W. (illustrator). 1st Edition. HB - Signed & Numbered Ltd. Edition No. 90 of 250 - FINE/FINE (As New) - This Necronomicon Press collection of Brian Lumley's poetry is divided into four sections, "Acrostics", "The Stories", "Odds and Ends", and " Three Stories in Fifty Words Each", Introduction and artwork by Donald W. Schank. Signed by Author and Illustrat.
Published by DARK HORSE, Milwauke, Oregon, 2011
ISBN 10: 1595828095ISBN 13: 9781595828095
Seller: OUTSIDER ENTERPRISES, Brockville, ON, Canada
Comic First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. WRIGHTSON, BERNIE (illustrator). 1st Edition. HB - 1st. Edition / 3rd. Print - AS NEW in Illustrated Boards / No DJ as issued - Boldly Signed by Bernie Wrighton on ffep - Horror legend Bernie Wrightson's Creepy and Eerie short stories, color illustrations, and frontispieces are finally collected in one deluxe hardcover! These classic tales from the 1970s and early 1980s include collaborations with fellow superstars and Warren Publishing alumni Bruce Jones, Carmine Infantino, Howard Chaykin, and others, as well as several adaptations and original stories written and drawn by Wrightson during one of the most fruitful periods of his career! The infamous "Jenifer" is included, as well as Wrightson's full-color "Muck Monster" and adaptations of Poe and Lovecraft classics. Signed by Author/Illustrator.
Published by Necronomicon Press, West Warwick, 1977
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
West Warwick: Necronomicon Press:, 1977. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited fine sans dust jacket, 124 pp. First edition, second state, i.e. copyright page dated 1977. Limitation page, signed by compiler Marc Michaud, states a run of 2500. Actual number of copies produced was, apparently just a few hundred. To the best of our knowledge, this hardcover copy, replete with foil stamping to spine strip, is a specially-bound one-of-a-kind item. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited fine sans dust jacket,
Published by Dark Regions Press, Colusa, CA, 2011
Seller: OUTSIDER ENTERPRISES, Brockville, ON, Canada
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Miller, Wayne (Jacket Art) (illustrator). 1st Edition. HB - 1st. Print - Signed & Numbered Ltd. Edition No. 43 of 100 - FINE / NF - With his first collection from Dark Regions Press, W. H. Pugmire continues his radical and obsessive reinterpretations of H. P. Lovecraft's brilliant fiction. Among the book's original pieces is the title story, "Gathered Dust," a sequel to J. Vernon Shea's "The Haunter of the Graveyard." Set in Arkham, this tale of utter strangeness concerns the legacy of Randolph Carter and a monstrous burying ground where the phantoms of the past linger so as to feed upon the living. In "Depths of Dreams and Madness" we journey to Pugmire's Sesqua Valley, wherein we find Lovecraft's artist, Richard Upton Pickman and Robert E. Howard's mad poet, Justin Geoffrey, tainted by the valley's supernatural lunacy. With "These Deities of Rarest Air," Pugmire continues his exploration of the prose-poem/vignette sequence, in a work that deliciously evokes the mystic aura of not only Lovecraft but Clark Ashton Smith as well. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Whispers Press, Chapel Hill, 1977
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Stephen Fabian (illustrator). Chapel Hill: Whispers Press:, 1977. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED Limited, Fine in Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase, 190 pp. Cover artwork by: Stephen Fabian One of 200 copies signed by editor Tom Collins, illustrator Stephen Fabien and publisher Stuart Schiff. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED Limited, Fine in Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase,
Published by Necronomicon Press
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1977. Quarto. 124 pp. Foreword by Frank Belknap Long. Number 174 from a limited printing of 2500 copies. Signed by the editor (inscription to copyright page). Mild shelf wear to wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition.