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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-106 [107-111] [112: blank], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First separate edition, second printing with typographical errors corrected, bound in red cloth with gold lettering on spine panel. An early critical survey of horror fiction (emphasis on British and American literature) by the most important twentieth-century American supernatural fiction writer. Introduction by August Derleth. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 7-7. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 8-49. Joshi I-A-21-a.1. A very good copy. (#170272)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
H. P. Lovecraft. Supernatural Horror in Literature. Ben Abramson, NY, NY, 1945.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ben Abramson Publisher, New York, 1945. First edition, second printing (text corrected from elft to left on p. 66, line 1) red cloth Hardcover with DJ, 111 pp (including index). First seperate printing of HPL's famous estended essay on supernatural Horror. Intro by August Derleth. The DJ -- orange with printing on top, B&W drawing (Poe?) at bottom -- is unclipped ($2.50 price) but has edgewear close to top edge, small 1/4" chip along spine, a few repaired tears (at bend in foldbacks & near spine), but is nearly all intact and protected in Brodart mylar. The book is near fine with bright gold gilt print on spine but has my name-stamp & name, date, place purchased & price in tiny letters near top of ffep.
Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2nd state copy with red cloth binding and error corrected on page 66 (left on line one). This copy is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. Both endpapers have some beginning generalized toning. "Lovecraft's essay ranges widely, but he first examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the early gothic novel. As a guide for what to read in the early gothic he relied partly on Edith Birkhead's 1921 historical survey The Tale of Terror, and he was also able to draw on the expertise of the great many experts and collectors in his circle. The bulk of the essay was written in New York City giving Lovecraft easy access to the resources of the city's great public libraries and also to the collections of his friends, and thus he was able to read widely and obtain obscure and rare works. His survey then proceeds to outline the development of the supernatural and the weird in the work of major writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft names as the four "modern masters" of horror: Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, and Arthur Machen. In addition to these masters, Lovecraft attempts to make the essay an encompassing survey, and thus he mentions or notes many others in passing." (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. H.P.L.: A Memoir. Ben Abramson Publisher, 1945.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: red binding. lightly sunned spine cloth
Seller: RP BOOKS, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. H.P.L.: A Memoir. Ben Abramson, New York, 1945.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Ben Abramson:, 1945. First edition, Hardcover, Very Good with no dust jacket, 123 pp. A clean, straight and tight copy some discoloration to paste-downs and with foil stamping and cover materian slightly faded on spine strip. First edition, Hardcover, Very Good with no dust jacket,
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
DERLETH, August. H.P.L.: A Memoir. Ben Abramson, Publisher, New York, 1945.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Red cloth. Frontispiece portrait. Slight spotting on the boards, foxing on the front endpapers, very good in good price-clipped dust jacket with moderate soiling and small chips. Advance Review Copy, so stamped on the front fly.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second printing (Currey state B, text corrected at 66.1). 1 vols. 8vo. Lovecraft's Pioneering Essay. Joshi I-A-21-a.2; Currey p. 330 Original red cloth. Fine copy in very good dust jacket (some soiling) First edition, second printing (Currey state B, text corrected at 66.1).
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
DERLETH, August.. H.P.L.: A MEMOIR.. Ed. Ben Abramson. Nueva York, 1945, 1945.
Price: US$109.44 + shipping
Description: . 21 cm. 1 retrato sobrepuesto, 122 pág., 3 h. Enc. tela editorial. Primera edición. * Biografía de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Biografías.
Seller: Libreria Anticuaria Farré, Barcelona, BARCE, Spain
(Lovecraft, H. P) Derleth, August. H. P. L.: A Memoir. Ben Abramson, Publisher, New York, 1945.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Tipped in frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed. Signed on the endpaper "Sincerely August Derleth". Original burgundy cloth. Original printed dust jacket. Some chipping along edges and light discoloration of jacket and browning of front pastedown from glue else an excellent copy Tipped in frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Derleth, August. H.P.L.,: A Memoir. Ben Abramson, Publisher, New York, 1945.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket panels intact and slightly soiled, with a small piece lacking from the head of the spine and slightly chipped at the base. Inscfibed by Derleth: "In memory of Howard Philips Lovecraft--the last gentleman".
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.