Approximately 59 pieces. Various bindings and editions.
A collection of all things Lovecraftian, including anthologies, biographies, critical works, magazines, and other ephemera
Includes:
THE WEIRD TALE.
(Lovecraft) Joshi, S.T.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1990. Cloth. Includes “The Decline of the West” essay on Lovecraft. Fine. Fine dust jacket.
FRESCO: THE UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT QUARTERLY: SPRING 1958: VOL. 8, NO. 3: HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
(Lovecraft) Eisner, Steve (ed.).
Detroit: University of Detroit, 1958. Softcover. First edition. Virgil Finley illustration of Lovecraft on rear wrapper. Very good+, light wear to top and bottom edges.
HORRORS AND UNPLEASANTRIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY & COLLECTOR’S PRICE GUILD TO ARKHAM HOUSE.
(Lovecraft) Jaffery, Sheldon.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982. Softcover. First edition. Signed by author. Includes two-page handwritten list of available titles, signed by author. Very good, crease along front spine, crease on back cover.
THE MAJOR WORKS OF H.P. LOVECRAFT: A CRITICAL COMMENTARY.
(Lovecraft) Gatto, John Taylor.
New York: Monarch Press (Simon & Schuster), 1977. Softcover (Monarch Notes). First edition. Very good with rear bottom corner creased, pages toned, one paragraph underlined.
NEONOMICON.
(Lovecraft) Moore, Alan and Jacen Burrows.
Rantoul, IL: Avatar Press, 2011. Softcover. First edition, second printing (August 2012). Fine.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: A LIFE.
(Lovecraft) Joshi, S.T.
West Warwick, R.I.: Necronomicon Press, 1996. Octavo, softcover, pictorial wrappers. First edition, first printing, trade paperback issue. Fine.
TALES OF H.P. LOVECRAFT.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips].
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1997. Cloth. First edition, first printing. Major works selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates. Fine. Dust jacket fine.
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
(Lovecraft) Long, Frank Belknap.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fine with tiny bump to top right front corner. Dust jacket fine with slight toning to inside flaps.
AVON FANTASY READER NO. 3.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Wollheim, Donald A. (ed.)
New York: Avon Book Company, 1947. Small octavo, softcover, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Silver Key.” Very good, with small letter A cut into front cover, pages toned, toning along spine on back cover, two creases on back cover.
THE WEIRD SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips].
New York: Bartholomew House (A Bart House Mystery), 1944. Softcover. First edition. Very good+, spine slightly rolled, minor rubbing along spine edges.
AVON GHOST READER.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others.
New York: Avon Book Company, 1946. Softcover. First edition. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror” and August Derleth’s “The Panelled Room.” Very good, light creases to front cover.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: FOUR DECADES OF CRITICISM.
(Lovecraft) Joshi, S.T. (ed.).
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1980. Cloth. First edition. About fine, with bumping to head of spine. Dust jacket about fine, with small tears to head of spine and top of rear flap.
LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS.
(Lovecraft) Various authors. Ellen Datlow (ed.).
San Francisco: Tachyon Press, 2014. Softcover. First edition. Fine.
THE PORTABLE NOVELS OF SCIENCE.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & Olaf Stapleton, John Taine and H.G. Wells. Wolheim, Donald A. (ed.).
New York: Viking Press, 1945. Cloth. First edition. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time.” Near fine. No dust jacket.
THE DUNWICH HORROR.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips].
New York: Bartholomew House, 1945. A Bart House Mystery. Softcover. Also includes “The Shadow Out of Time” and “The Thing on the Doorstep.” First edition. Good to very good, with front cover creases, light wear to spine ends.
LOVECRAFT: A BIOGRAPHY.
(Lovecraft) de Camp, L. Sprague.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1975. Cloth. First edition. Fine, with slight wear to head of spine. Dust jacket about fine, with slight rubbing near bottom front corner.
ENCYCLOPEDIA CTHULHIANA.
(Lovecraft) Harms, Daniel.
Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1994. Softcover. First edition. Very good+, light wear.
TO QUEBEC AND THE STARS.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. de Camp, L. Sprague (ed.).
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1976. Cloth. First edition. Fine. About fine dust jacket, small tear to rear.
THE DUNWICH HORROR.
(Lovecraft).
Ad mat movie sheet. Black-and-white 1970 publicity graphic on card stock, 8 ½” x 11”. With signature of actress Sandra Dee. Fine.
H.P. LOVECRAFT CENTENNIAL CALENDAR.
(Lovecraft) Joshi, S.T.
West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1990. Softcover. First edition. Illustrated by Robert H. Knox and Jason C. Eckhardt. Fine.
FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES: VOL. 8, NO. 6.
(Lovecraft) Gnaedinger, Mary (ed.).
New York: All-Fiction Field, 1947. Softcover. First edition (August 1947). Cover illustration by Virgil Finlay. Includes one-page illustrated feature “Masters of Fantasy” on Lovecraft by Neil Austin (p. 113). Good to very good, with usual chipping along edges, spine ends, pages browning.
A CATALOG OF LOVECRAFTIANA: THE GRILL/BINKIN COLLECTION.
(Lovecraft) Owings, Mark and Irving Binkin (catalogued and annotated by).
Baltimore: The Mirage Press Ltd., 1975. Cloth. First edition. About fine with few light rubbing marks to front cover, bump to head of spine. No dust jacket, as issued.
LOVECRAFT: A STUDY IN THE FANTASTIC.
(Lovecraft) Levy, Maurice. Joshi, S.T. (trans.).
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. Softcover. First American edition. Fine.
GREAT TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Wise, Herbert A. and Phyllis Frazer (ed.).
New York: Random House, Inc. (Modern Library), 1944. Cloth (beige and blue boards). First edition. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls” and “The Dunwich Horror.” Very good, with small bumping to lower front and rear edges, light toning to front pastedown and endpaper. Good+ dust jacket with rubbing marks to front cover, chipping to head and tail of spine.
THE ARKHAM HOUSE COMPANION: FIFTY YEARS OF ARKHAM HOUSE.
(Lovecraft) Jaffery, Sheldon (ed.).
Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1989. Softcover. First edition. Signed by Jaffery. About fine with large area of apparent ink offset on rear cover.
H.P. LOVECRAFT AND THE MODERNIST Grotesque.
(Lovecraft) Martin, Sean Elliot.
Pittsburgh (?): Sean Elliott Martin, 2008. Softcover. First edition (December 2008). Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University. Near fine, bottom corners bent.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: THE MYSTERIOUS MAN BEHIND THE DARKNESS.
(Lovecraft) Montague, Charlotte.
New York: Chartwell Books, 2015. Paperback. Cloth. First edition. Fine. Fine dust jacket.
THE COMPLETE MASKS OF NYARLATHOTEP.
(Lovecraft) DiTilllio, Larry and Lynn Willis.
Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1996: Softcover. Third edition. Call of Cthulhu 1920s role-playing adventure, with the lost Australian chapter ad four new episodes. Fine.
INFINITE WORLDS: THE FANTASTIC VISIONS OF SCIENCE FICTION ART.
(Science Fiction) Di Fate, Vincent.
New York: Wonerland Press/Penguin Studio, 1998. Cloth. First edition. About fine with bump to head of spine. About fine dust jacket with bump to head of spine.
THE COLLECTOR’S INDEX TO WEIRD TALES.
(Lovecraft) Jaffery, Sheldon R. and Fred Cook.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985. Cloth. First Edition. Signed by Jaffery and Cook. Fine. Fine dust jacket.
BOOKS AT BROWN: 1991-1992 VOLUME XXXVIII-XXXIX.
(Lovecraft) Various authors. Stanley, John H. (ed.).
Providence, R.I.: The Friends of the Library of Brown University, 1995. Softcover. First edition. Signed by authors John H. Stanley, Will Murray, Robert M. Price, Kenneth W. Faig, Jr., S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. Fine.
CREEPS BY NIGHT.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Hammett, Dashiell (ed.).
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1944. Cloth. First edition, first printing. Stated Forum Books edition. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann.” Very good, pages toned and brittle, light wear to spine ends, few tiny white specks to both boards, pencil inscriptions to front endpaper, pencil scribbles to rear endpaper. No dust jacket.
THE DREAM QUEST OF H.P. LOVECRAFT.
(Lovecraft) Schweitzer, Darrell.
San Francisco: The Borgo Press, 1978. Cloth. First edition (May 1978). Near fine with small label affixed to rear cover. No dust jacket (as issued?).
THE DREAM QUEST OF H.P. LOVECRAFT.
(Lovecraft) Schweitzer, Darrell.
San Francisco: The Borgo Press, 1978. Softcover. First edition. Signed by author. About fine with toning on back cover.
THE GARDEN OF FEAR AND OTHER STORIES OF THE BIZARRE AND FANTASTIC.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Howard, Robert E. (ed.).
Los Angeles: Crawford Publishing House, 1945. Softcover, first printing. Includes Lovecraft’s “Celephais.” Very good+, spine sunned and pages toned.
LOVECRAFT: A STUDY IN THE FANTASTIC.
(Lovecraft) Levy, Maurice. Joshi, S.T. (trans.).
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. Cloth. First American edition. New (in shrink-wrap).
AMAZING STORIES VOL. 2, NO.6.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Gernsback, Hugo (ed.).
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1927. Softcover. First edition (September 1927). First publication of Lovecraft’s favorite story, “The Colour Out of Space” (p. 556). Very good, with light wear to spine ends and bottom front cover, small rubbed area on front cover, pages toned, small label stuck to rear cover.
HARVEST: A SHEAF OF POEMS FROM DRIFTWOOD.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Coats, Walter John (ed.).
North Montpelier, VT: The Driftwind Press, 1933. Softcover. First edition. Includes Lovecraft poem “The Canal” (p. 33), a sonnet from Fungi From Yuggoth poetry cycle. One of 150 copies bound in “limp covers” (another 75 in boards). Mistakenly changes the last word from “clay” to “day.” About fine, trace of soiling to covers, top and bottom edges slightly nibbed.
SLEEP NO MORE.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Derleth, August (ed.).
New York: Murray Hill Books, 1944 (Edition for the Armed Services, Inc., #R-33). Softcover. First edition. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls.” About very good, some wear to spine, toning to pages.
DUNWICH HORROR AND OTHER WORD TALES
Wrappers. Armed Services Edition. [1939] Good.
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips].
New York: Ben Abramson Publisher, 1945. Cloth. First edition, first printing (black boards, with “elft” for “left” on page 66). About fine, with tiny bump at top of front board, toning along hinges to front and back pastedowns/endpapers, owner’s address label on front endpaper. No dust jacket.
H.P. LOVECRAFT AND LOVECRAFT CRITICISM: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
(Lovecraft) Joshi, S.T.
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1981. Cloth. First edition. About fine. No dust jacket, as issued.
NOT AT NIGHT!
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Asbury, Herbert (ed.).
New York: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press, 1928. Cloth. First edition. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook.” This claimed to reprint stories from the British edition of Weird Tales magazine but was in fact a pirated edition of stories from Christine Campbell Thomson’s Not at Night anthology series. For a time Weird Tales threatened to sue the publisher, but the book was withdrawn from circulation. Lovecraft mentioned this multiple times in correspondence. About very good, with spine and upper right front corner creased, wear to spine ends, light toning to front and back pastedowns and endpapers. No dust jacket.
SWITCH ON THE LIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Thomson, Christine Campbell (ed.).
London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd., (1931 – date of 1928 appears after publisher’s name on title page). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-256 [note: first leaf is a blank used as front paste-down], true endpapers at rear, original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Sixth volume in the "Not At Night" anthology series. Includes the first book publication of Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls” as well as “The Curse of Yig” by Zealia Bishop, with anonymous collaboration of Lovecraft. Good+ with fresh-looking boards, interior very good+, spine faded, worn and frayed along edges, loose panel expertly reattached, wear to spine ends, three corners lightly bumped, small bump to top front edge, slight soiling to title page and front pastedown, page edges darkened. No dust jacket.
THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1928 AND THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY.
(Lovecraft). O’Brien, Edward J. (ed.).
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lovecraft’s inclusion here marks arguably the greatest literary honor bestowed during his lifetime. Hiss 1927 “The Colour Out of Space” merits the editor’s highest rating of three asterisks (p. 405) and appears on the volume’s roll of honor (p. 312). Also included is a self-written biography (p. 324). [From ”Lovecraft, Howard P. to Talman, Wilfred B.,” 1929, in Howard P. Lovecraft Collection, Brown University Library: “‘P.S. O'Brien gave me an 18-line biography in ‘Best Short Stories of 1928,’ & I am listed among third-raters in O Henry Memorial Prize Stories.’”]. Provenance: From the library of Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, who published Lovecraft in The Galleon, a 1930s fanzine, and founded Fantasy Press. Very good+, head of spine bumped, series of small spots on spine panel, light damp-stains to front cover. No dust jacket.
THE LURKING FEAR AND OTHER STORIES.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips].
New York: Avon Book Company, 1947. Avon No. 136. Softcover. First edition, first printing? Very good, with front cover crease, pages toned.
AVON FANTASY READER NO. 6.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Wollheim, Donald A. (ed.)
New York: Avon Book Company, 1948. Small octavo, softcover, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Includes Lovecraft’s “Beyond the Wall of Sleep.” Very good, with slight rubbing to spine, discolored thin spot to one page, pages toned.
AVON FANTASY READER NO. 8.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Wollheim, Donald A. (ed.)
New York: Avon Book Company, 1948. Small octavo, softcover, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Temple.” Very good, with slight rubbing to spine, light rippling and discoloration to back cover, pages toned.
AVON FANTASY READER NO. 10.
Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] & others. Wollheim, Donald A. (ed.)
New York: Avon Book Company, 1949. Small octavo, softcover, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Includes Lovecraft’s “The Statement of Randolph Carter.” Very good+, with light wear to spine ends, pages toned.
ELEVEN PIECES OF EPHEMERA
Lovecraft related catalogs, magazines, pamphlets, etc.