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H. P. Lovecraft. Selected Letters I: 1911-1924. Arkham House Publishers, 1965.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: A handful of pages have ink marks, DJ is tattered along the edges.
Seller: Inquiring Minds, Saugerties, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1965. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, LIMITED TO 2,500 COPIES. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor bumping to edges and light discoloration to boards. Interior is clean and bright. Lacks dust jacket. 362 pages. More photos available. LIT/032924
Seller: Under the Covers Antique Books, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 8VO, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. Limited printing of 2,500 copies. Volume I only. Crisp black cloth boards with title in gold on spine. Small water mark to lower spine edge. Light fore edge tanning. Small soil spot to blank verso of first free endpaper. Text pages are crisp and clean. Very nice White, black and blue illustrated dust jacket shows only minor wear and looks great in new protective mylar. $7.50 price on flyleaf is intact. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.
Seller: Koster's Collectible Books, Farmingville, NY, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H. P.. Selected Letters. Arkham House Publishers, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Arkham House Publishers 1965 edition. Name on front endpaper, Binding tight. Some discoloration on edges. Spine of DJ is tanned DJ in archival cover.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H. P.. Selected Letters, 1911-1924. Arkham House, 1965.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 362 pages. Black cloth with gilt spine titles, very good with rubbing to spine tips and fore-edge corners. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket toned, lightly foxed, and edgeworn, including crumpling with tiny closed tears at spine tips and very minor chipping at fore-edge corners. Pages clean, text unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
H. P. Lovecraft. Selected Letters I: 1911-1924. Arkham House Publishers, 1965.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Arkham House Publishers June 1965 Binding: Hardcover In Very Good + condition, binding is tight, text is clean and DJ is clean and intact. A gift quality copy. $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H.P.. Selected Letters I: 1911 - 1924. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1965.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Sauk City: Arkham House:, 1965. First en, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 362 pp. A clean, straight and tight copy. Yes, first printing with "Twenty-five hundred copies. . . " on page 363 and with no mention of second printing. First en, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H.P.. SELECTED LETTERS (5 Vols. 1925-1937). Arkham House, 1965.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Complete in 5 volumes. Each vol. is exceptionally tight, clean, without marks. The black cloth is very rich, square with very bright gold spine lettering. They appear very gently used. VOL.I: 1965, 2nd.prtg.with 2 lightly bumped top corners, else Fine in VG+ unclipped DJ. VOL II: 1968, 2nd. prtg.,Fine in nr. Fine unclipped DJ VOL.III: 1971, 1st. prtg., 2 lightly bumped bottom corners else Fine in unclipped nr.Fine DJ. VOL.IV: 1976, 1st.prtg., Fine in unclipped VG DJ whose yellow letters on spine have faded out with sl. fade to rear cover. VOL.V: 1st. prtg. Fine in nr. Fine unclipped DJ. Each Vol. was limited to either 2500, 3000 or 5000 copies. A Collector's copy of this uncommon 5 volume set. Please "Ask Bookseller" is this is available before ordering.
Seller: Black Swan Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$652.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated Limitations Of 2500, 2500, 3000, 5000 And 5000, Respectively. All Fine In Fine Dj's, Not Price-Clipped, No Wear At All, Vol I With Dj Spine Title Faded From Blue To Violet- Brown But Lettering Quite Strong, Vol Ii With Spine Title Very Slightly Faded, No Fading To Spine Titles On Other 3 Volumes. International Postage At Insured Priority Mail Cost.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
H.P. Lovecraft. Selected Letters of H.P. Lovecraft (I-V Complete). Arkham House, 1965.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printings of volumes 4 & 5, second impressions of volumes 1, 2, & 3. The monumental five volume set of Lovecraft's letters. Collected & edited by August Derleth, Donald Wandrei & James Turner over a quarter of a century, these five volumes of letters cover the years from 1911 - when Lovecraft was 21 - through to March 1937 - shortly before his premature death. Illustrated throughout with photographs, reproductions of letters, etc. Original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel, each in each their original unclipped Ronald Gore designed jackets. The jacket flaps on Vols 1 & 2 were previously taped down at the edges onto the front & rear endpapers, these are tape remains on the edges of the flaps and on the endpapers; Some small stains to rear panel of the jacket of Vol 1, ink name on front endpaper and the yellow spine lettering has faded on Vol 4. A sound, decent set in dust jackets. All pages are clean and unmarked aside from one previous owner's inscription on front endpaper of Vol 4. Light foxing to page edges of Vol 1 & 2.
Seller: Sparrow's Bookshop, IOBA, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
LOVECRAFT, H. P.. Selected Letters.. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1965-76, 1965.
Price: US$1030.61 + shipping
Description: First editions, first printings, of the complete series of Lovecraft's letters. "It is remarkable that Derleth and Wandrei, when founding Arkham House [in] 1939, were even then thinking of publishing Lovecraft's letters, clearly his most important (and in many ways his greatest) work. That dream, however, was not fulfilled" until the publication of this set was complete (Joshi, p. xvi). Arkham House, named after Lovecraft's fictional New England city, was founded two years after his death in 1937 to produce hardback editions of his fiction, which had first appeared in pulp magazines. The publishers have since become specialists in the "weird fiction" subgenre. Joshi, Lovecraft 41.a.1, 45.a.1, 59, 68-69. 5 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, grey endpapers. With dust jackets. With 4 half-tone photographic frontispieces. Very slight occasional bumping to spine ends, the bindings otherwise sharp, internally crisp. A fine set in near-fine jackets, occasional light rubbing and bumping, unclipped, bright.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
H.P. Lovecraft. Selected Letters (Complete Set Volumes I-V). Arkham House, 1965.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions/First Printings of all 5 Volumes in Lovecraft's Selected Letters series; All books Fine in Fine dust jackets with no visible flaws, as new and unread. An extraordinary set of these books, published with low print runs by Arkham House; this set came from the personal collection of famed collector Richard Manney, part of his collection selling at Sotheby's in 1991 for almost 4 million dollars. Scarce all 5 books together, indeed in this pristine condition. No book remaindered, no book price clipped, no book ex-library; all books in protective Mylar sleeves and all will be carefully wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1890.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A high-grade collectable five-volume, first edition, first printing, complete set of Arkham House's Collected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft. Each octavo volume is in its original Holliston Black Novelex binding cloth with gilt stamped titles to the spine. Additionally, each volume has their original unclipped Ronald Gore designed jackets. All first-printing points verified as published in Jefferey's Arkham House Companion. In the 30-years I have been dealing in Arkham House and Lovecraft books, this is the finest set I have had the privilege of possessing. The most critical point of what I consider a fine set, after only the first printing points, is the condition of the dust jacket for volume I. The jacket was printed using a blue ink notorious for its ability to quickly fade into the abyss of a sunlit shelf. Copies of this volume often appear a faint gray-blue or even a faint gray shadow. The Jacket for Volume I of this set, and the jackets for its companion volumes, have been protected since publication by custom thick paper dust jacket jackets with typed titles. Each volume's binding is sharp and tight. Internal pages are crisp with only faint natural yellowing. Volume V remains in its original shrink wrap. Hard Cover in Holliston Black Novelex Cloth with gilt titles
Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.