The Outsider and Others de Lovecraft, H.P - 1939

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1939. One of 1,200 Copies. First Collected Edition. 238 x 160 mm. (9 5/8 x 6 1/4"). xiv, 153, [3] pp.Compiled and edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Publisher's black buckram, smooth spine with gilt vertical titling, midnight blue (unclipped) dust jacket featuring a fantastical design by Virgil Finlay (signed near foot of front cover). ◆A little fraying to head edge of jacket, quarter-inch chips to it at head and tail of spine, spine and rear cover of jacket lightly toned, one corner at head of book spine lightly bumped, a couple pages with faint thumbing, very light brown stain to upper fore-edge corner of a score of leaves, but an excellent copy--clean and fresh inside and out with few signs of use--in a very good jacket. This first collected edition of tales by American horror legend H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is deemed "a landmark in weird fiction" by ANB. The compilation of stories originally published in "Weird Tales" pulp magazine was the… Leer más

THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS, Arkham House, 1939, first edition, a bright near fine copy in a vg+ Virgil Finlay pictorial dust-wrapper with a bit of wear and some light dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel. The first book issued from this esteemed publisher. 1/1,200 copies.

A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET. A BEAUTIFUL COPY

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House,, 1939. Launching Arkham House: a "legendary book in supernatural literature" First edition, sole printing, of the first omnibus edition of Lovecraft's fiction, in the striking dust jacket by the celebrated fantasy illustrator Virgil Finlay. The book was critically hailed for its selection of the author's best stories, from "Dagon" to "At the Mountains of Madness". It also includes his final revised version of "Supernatural Horror in Literature", among the finest literary analyses of the genre's history. Arkham House, named after Lovecraft's fictional New England city, was founded by the late author's friends Derleth and Wandrei to preserve his serialized stories in this hardback edition. Their labour of love marks "the beginning of serious specialist publishing of fantastic fiction in America" (Bleiler). The print run comprised 1,268 copies, and no subsequent edition was published. Provenance: from the substantial occult library of the Arkham House collector and… Leer más

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… Leer más