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H. P. Lovecraft. Marginalia. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1944.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition copy without jacket. Seems to be ex-library copy. Blacked out tape to the spine, ex-library written in pencil on ffep, with signs of removal of library stickers from front endpaper and ffep. Blue number stamp on copyright page "684897". Book otherwise internally in Near fine condition. Provenance - Collection of Gary Munson; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia

Lovecraft, H.P.. Marginalia. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1944.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, First Printing. This original dustjacket has the publisher's $3.00 printed price present with wear to the spine and edges NOT effecting any lettering. The book is in very good condition with fading to the spine, wear to the boards and edges. A very good copy. Trades and offers considered.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

H.P.Lovecraft. Marginalia. Arkham House, 1944, 1944.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very. Good in a Very Good jacket with a short closed tear at top front. 1st Printing

Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. MARGINALIA . Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2035 copies printed. Revisions, articles, fragments and essays. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1042. Joshi I-A-19. Early owner's signature at top edge of front free endpaper. Some rubbing to cloth along bottom edges, a very good copy with bright spine lettering in good or better dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corner tips, light general dust soiling, and clipped price. (#160434)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H. P.. Marginalia. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1944.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover, bound in cloth with dust jacket. The jacket is toned and edge-worn with several nicks and a small chip at the head of the spine, retaining price of $3.00 on the flap; the book with creases at the spine ends, the text unmarked.

Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.

H.P. Lovecraft. Marginalia. Arkham House, 1944.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: very good in mylar protected dj. edited by August Derleth, Donald Wandrei Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng

Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada

Lovecraft, H.P.. Marginalia. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1944.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Description: Sauk City: Arkham House:, 1944. First edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, 377 pp. Cover artwork by: Virgil Finlay A clean, straight and tight copy with a lightly dusted head and overall moderate toning. Jacket complete and very tidy with overall toning, a bit more pronounced on the spine panel. First edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket,

Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H. P.. Marginalia [Association Copy]. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.

Price: US$486.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 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.

Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. MARGINALIA.Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1944.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, illustrated by Virgil Finlay, cloth. 2035 copies printed. Revisions, articles, fragments and essays. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1042. Joshi I-A-19. Neat bookstore label at lower corner of front paste down, lower edges somewhat rubbed, upper right corner gently bumped, a nearly fine copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket with some age darkening and rubbing to spine panel and two tiny closed tears to upper front panel and light shelf wear to spine ends. (15205)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H. P.. MARGINALIA. Arkham House, 1944.

Price: US$522.00 + shipping

Description: MARGINALIA, Arkham House, 1944, first edition, a tight, bright vg+/near fine copy in a vg+ Virgil Finlay dust-wrapper with some tanning to dust-wrapper spine. 1/2,035 copies. Illustrated with photos of his peers.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

LOVECRAFT, H. P.. Marginalia. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Octavo. Tan dust jacket with black and white lettering and illustrations, collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Very good dust jacket, spot to center of front panel, spine darkened, wear to edges, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, near fine overall, previous owner's signature at front free end paper, pages slightly agetoned.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H. P.. Marginalia. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.

Price: US$648.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.

H.P. Lovecraft. Marginalia. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1944.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Shelf wear. Chips to top spine of dust jacket. Light water stain top front dust jacket.

Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.

LOVECRAFT, H.P.. MARGINALIA.. Arkham House, 1944.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: The first of the Arkham House volumes by/about HPL with "collections of lesser pieces," fFragments written by HPL, Essays, Revisions, a few very early tales; and personal anecdotes, poems and articles by contributors dealing with the author's writings and personality. Numerous good but small photos of HPL and pother Weird Tales writers, Robert E. Howard-looking older than his thirty years with his infamous mustache, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, E. Hoffman Price and too many others to note; in addition to the outstanding dust-jacket illustration by Virgil Finlay. [2035 copies printed]. Very, very light dusting to page top-edges, one corner gently nubbed, a few finger-prints to cloth, a very nice d.j., very slightly toned at spine and edges, no splits, tears or chips, uncommon for a d.j., of this era. About fine copy in like, d.j. One of the nicest copies of this title I have handled. From the Richard M. Jefts collection.

Seller: Terence McVicker, Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. MARGINALIA . Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2035 copies printed. Revisions, articles, fragments and essays. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1042. Joshi I-A-19. Top edge of text block just a bit dusty, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#162612)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. MARGINALIA . Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2035 copies printed. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1042. Joshi I-A-19. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a bit of mild dust soiling. A very nice copy. (#132233)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. MARGINALIA.Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1944.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, illustrated by Virgil Finlay, cloth. 2035 copies printed. Revisions, articles, fragments and essays. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1042. Joshi I-A-19. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Wandrei library label laid in. (15586)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.