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-----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---digest size softcover, a Very Good+ example, a wee bit of age toning to paper, a bit of light edge wear, a couple of very small nicksa dandy copy meant for the collector, contents include: The Dogs of Doctor Dwann by Edmond Hamilton; The Parasite by Dorothy Norman Cooke; The Outsider by H P Lovecraft; The Crawler (verse) by Lowndes; The White Domino by Urann Thayer; The case of the Dr Who Had no Business by Richard Lupoff; The Feline Phantom by Gilbert Draper; The Consuming Flame, a Dr Satan story by Paul Ernst, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.25w x 7h Inches

black hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 7"x10"). large heavy book, international or priority shipping may cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. mint cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). purple endpapers. xiv+1098p.+about the author & list of series titles. horror stories. american literature. ghost stories. english literature. occultism. science fiction. novels. novellas. short stories. ~ In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation as the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe. This omnibus collects for the first time in a single volume all of Lovecraft's groundbreaking fiction: 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Dreams in the Witch House', 'The Haunter of the Dark', 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'The Shadow out of Time', 'The Shadow over Innsmouth', the full~length novels 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' and 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath', and many others.

Lava Mt. , 1975. Audio Book. Illus. by KING, N.E. : WEHRLE, JOE JR. (cover art). New. Audio Book (LP). Signed by Contributors. 1st Edition. Vinyl LP Record - Masters of Horror Series - NM Vinyl n VG+ Sleeve - Limited Edition No. 5 of 1000 - "For this first edition 1050 copies have been pressed of which 1000 are for sale". - Comes with numbered insert Signed by everyone involved in the production - The Rats in the Walls & The Outsider - "He was his own most fantastic creation.".

-----------( Japanese Editions of H P LOVECRAFT ) ---9 VOLUMES - hard covers, about 6w x 8.5h inches, all are Near Fine / Fine examples, upper edge of v.3 is speckled/spotted, all issued without dustjackets, all housed in lightly rubbed Very Good to Very Good+ slipcases which sport H R Giger illustrations taken from his edition of The Necronomicon, facsimile of Lovecraft's personal bookplate on verso of front covers ( in Western format this would be the rear cover but Japanese text starts at what we consider the back of the book ), seven of the nine volumes sport the original belly-bands, laid into each volume is some promotional material which might be for these books as that literature is titled ARKHAM ADVERTISER, as well each volume has the Arkham House logo on the front endpaper (again at what we would consider the back of the book ), so these were clearly authorized by AH, all with ribbon markers, volume 1 covers 1907 - 1921 / 2 = 1922 - 1924 / 3 = 1925 - 1927 / 4 = 1927 - 1928 / 5 = 1930 - 1931 / 6 = 1932 - 1937 / 7-i = essays / 7-ii = poetry and pastorals (including Fungi from Yuggoth ) / 9 = letters, revisions, essays about HPL, etc., all text is in Japanese except for the odd phrase or titles, ---illustrations in b&w as well as b&w photos, some illustrations are taken from the pulp era, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---extra shipping might be required depending upon destination ---if an issue please inquire before ordering --- Size: 6w x 8.5 Inches

Japan: Japan: Kokusho-Kankohkai / Arkham House Publishers, 1984, 1985, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1985. -----------( Japanese Editions of H P LOVECRAFT ) ---9 VOLUMES - hard covers, about 6w x 8.5h inches, all are Near Fine / Fine examples, upper edge of v.3 is speckled/spotted, all issued without dustjackets, all housed in lightly rubbed Very Good to Very Good+ slipcases which sport H R Giger illustrations taken from his edition of The Necronomicon, facsimile of Lovecraft's personal bookplate on verso of front covers ( in Western format this would be the rear cover but Japanese text starts at what we consider the back of the book ), seven of the nine volumes sport the original belly-bands, laid into each volume is some promotional material which might be for these books as that literature is titled ARKHAM ADVERTISER, as well each volume has the Arkham House logo on the front endpaper (again at what we would consider the back of the book ), so these were clearly authorized by AH, all with ribbon markers, volume 1 covers 1907 - 1921 / 2 = 1922 - 1924 / 3 = 1925 - 1927 / 4 = 1927 - 1928 / 5 = 1930 - 1931 / 6 = 1932 - 1937 / 7-i = essays / 7-ii = poetry and pastorals (including Fungi from Yuggoth ) / 9 = letters, revisions, essays about HPL, etc., all text is in Japanese except for the odd phrase or titles, ---illustrations in b&w as well as b&w photos, some illustrations are taken from the pulp era, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---extra shipping might be required depending upon destination ---if an issue please inquire before ordering ---. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine (see description)/No Jacket as issued. Illus. by H R Giger Cover Art on Slipcases . 6w x 8.5 Inches.

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1939. First Collected Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 1268 copies of this early Lovecraft classic. 553pp. A very good copy of a work with nightmarish creatures with unequalled stories of the macabre that sweep beyond all barriers to those undiscovered lands out of space and time. When Lovecraft died in 1937, his friends August Derleth and Donald Wandrei began to assemble his known writings, stories, poems, essays and with its appearance brought the genius to a much wider public. The book quickly sold out and has become a cornerstone for the serious Lovecraft collector. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, corners lightly bumped, previous owner's name on front pastedown, C.F. Hunt, March 30, 1959. A very good copy without the rare dust jacket.

Octavo. Limited to only 1268 copies of this early Lovecraft classic. 553pp. A very good copy of a work with nightmarish creatures with unequalled stories of the macabre that sweep beyond all barriers to those undiscovered lands out of space and time. When Lovecraft died in 1937, his friends August Derleth and Donald Wandrei began to assemble his known writings, stories, poems, essays and with its appearance brought the genius to a much wider public. The book quickly sold out and has become a cornerstone for the serious Lovecraft collector. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, corners lightly bumped, previous owner's name on front pastedown, C.F. Hunt, March 30, 1959. A very good copy without the rare dust jacket.

First edition, 1939 stated on title and copyright page. Near fine book, two bookplates from previous owners affixed to front paste-down and front free end paper; bottom board edges slightly rubbed as well as corners. Dustjacket very good, some chipping, wrinkles and rubbing. Flap price $5.00. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.

Arkham House, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, 1939 stated on title and copyright page. Near fine book, two bookplates from previous owners affixed to front paste-down and front free end paper; bottom board edges slightly rubbed as well as corners. Dustjacket very good, some chipping, wrinkles and rubbing. Flap price $5.00. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.

First Edition, First Printing. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich n color with minor wear to the spine. The book is bound in the publisher's blue cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy with the First Issue dustjacket that has the publisher's printed price of $5.00 on the front flap.

A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET. A BEAUTIFUL COPY

First Edition, First Printing Stunning near fine/fine crisp clean book with vibrant boards with a beautiful near fine first printing dust jacket. The first collection of Lovecraft’s writings and the first Arkham House book. Accompanied by a lovely clamshell case. The book is in bright, crisp condition with navy cloth and gilt titles to the spine. The book has clean cloth, still retaining the original sheen, and the boards have sharp corners (two very slightly pushed), and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with no bookstore stamps, no bookplates, no owner names, and no inscriptions. The internal pages are clean, crisp, bright, and flat with no marks, no stains, no handling marks, no writing, no bent pages, no stains, and no foxing. Stunning clean, bright book internally appearing as unread! The original first edition dust jacket has benefited from very slight restoration by an expert paper conservator and as such presents in near fine condition. The jacket is bright and still retains the strong vibrant colors. The jacket has no rips, no chips, no stains and no foxing. Please see the many detailed images. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of $5.00. Please see the detailed images. Rare and desirable in this condition with the original dust jacket. The book is accompanied by a lovely clamshell. Presents beautifully on the shelf, in addition to making a wonderful investment. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark Horror and SciFi titles.

The Outsider and Others by H. P. Lovecraft (First Edition) Firm copy with minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Bright dust jacket with minor wear to edges and spine ends. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover. Lovecraft's first published collection. Arkham House's first book published. 1200 copies printed, stated. Original black cloth, spine stamped gilt. Original dust jacket with $5.00 price on the flap.

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.

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1939. First Editions. 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. 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.

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.