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Lovecraft, H. P.. Something About Cats and Other Tales of Horror. Arkham House, 1949.
Price: US$203.00 + shipping
Description: SOMETHING ABOUT CATS AND OTHER TALES OF HORROR, Arkham House, 1949, first edition, off-setting, apparently from the dust-wrapper flaps, to the upper and lower margins of the paste-downs and end-papers, some age toning to the page edges never entering into the margins of the text block, else a vg+/near fine copy in like dust-wrapper save for some light discoloration to the upper margins of the inner dust-wrapper panels with no show through to the outer dust-wrapper. 1/2,995 copies. Illustrated.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 1st printing. 7.5x5", ix+306 pp, photo frontis, 2 double-sided b&w plates from photographs. Light fraying at top of spine, one plate has adhered to facing page resulting in loss of a small amount of paper, else VG, clean, solid, in Good dj with light edge wear, some yellowing and discoloration.
Seller: Aardvark Book Depot, Shorewood, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Miscellaneous writings, poems, essays and stories that Lovecraft contributed to by other writers. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1047. Joshi I-A-25-a. Former owner's bookplate affixed to front paste down, age toning to edges of text block, a nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with mild age toning to edges and folds. (22762)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H. P.. Something ABout Cats; and other pieces. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Small octavo. 307pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Limited to 3000 copies. Frontispiece photo. Original price of $3.00 present on front flap. Some light toning to edges of the jacket. Some light spotting to top foredge. Nice copy. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H. P.. Something About Cats. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Description: Collected by August Derleth. Arkham House; Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. 306 pp Illustrated. Dust Jacket by Ronald Clyne. 2,995 copies printed. A companion volume of sorts to Marginalia published five years earlier, Derleth intended Something About Cats to complete the publication of Lovecraft's miscellaneous writings and close out Arkham House's first decade. This volume was a critical resource to the Lovecraft scholar until the arrival of Necronomicon Press and S. T. Joshi in the 1970s. Contents: Prefactory Note by August Derleth Something Acout Cats Revisions: The invisible Monster by Sonia H. Greene Four O'Clock by Sonia H. Greene The Horror in the Burying Ground by Hazel Hoald The Last Test by Adolph de Castro The Electric Executioner, by Adolphe do Castro Satan's Servants, by Robert-Bloch) (preface by Bloch & notes by Lovecraft) Essays: Three Conservative - Articles The Despised Pastoral Time and Space Merlinus Redivivus At the Root. The Materialist Today Vermont: A First Impression The Battle that Ended the Century Notes: For "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" Discarded draught of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" For "At the mountains of Madness" For "The Shadow Out of Time" Poems: Phaeton August Death To tho American Flag To a Youth My Favorite Character To Templeton and Mount Ilonadnocl: The House The City The Poe-et's Nightmare (includes Alethia Phrikodes) Sir Thomas Tryout Lament for the Vanished Spider Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium Something About H. P. Lovecraft: A Memoir of Lovecraft by Rheinhart Kleiner Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Samuel Loveman Lovecraft as I Knew Him, by Sonia H. Davis Addenda to H.P.L.: A Memoir by August. Derleth Lovecraft's Sensitivity Lovecraft's "Conservative" The Man Who was Lovecraft, by E. Hoffmann Price A Literary Copernicus, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Memorial Poems: Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight, by August. Derleth HPL by Vincent Starrett. Typical bumping to the head and foot of the spine. Faint spotting present on cover but only visible at an oblique angle. Toning to page edges. Very good. Rubbed and chipped at edges and corners. Some loss to ink on title. Price clipped.
Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Miscellaneous writings, poems, essays and stories that Lovecraft contributed to by other writers. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1047. Joshi I-A-25-a. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a few light stain spots along the lower front panel. (28586)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H. P.. Something About Cats. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949.
Price: US$324.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collected by August Derleth. Arkham House; Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. 306 pp Illustrated. Dust Jacket by Ronald Clyne. 2,995 copies printed. A companion volume of sorts to Marginalia published five years earlier, Derleth intended Something About Cats to complete the publication of Lovecraft's miscellaneous writings and close out Arkham House's first decade. This volume was a critical resource to the Lovecraft scholar until the arrival of Necronomicon Press and S. T. Joshi in the 1970s. Contents: Prefactory Note by August Derleth Something Acout Cats Revisions: The invisible Monster by Sonia H. Greene Four O'Clock by Sonia H. Greene The Horror in the Burying Ground by Hazel Hoald The Last Test by Adolph de Castro The Electric Executioner, by Adolphe do Castro Satan's Servants, by Robert-Bloch) (preface by Bloch & notes by Lovecraft) Essays: Three Conservative - Articles The Despised Pastoral Time and Space Merlinus Redivivus At the Root. The Materialist Today Vermont: A First Impression The Battle that Ended the Century Notes: For "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" Discarded draught of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" For "At the mountains of Madness" For "The Shadow Out of Time" Poems: Phaeton August Death To tho American Flag To a Youth My Favorite Character To Templeton and Mount Ilonadnocl: The House The City The Poe-et's Nightmare (includes Alethia Phrikodes) Sir Thomas Tryout Lament for the Vanished Spider Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium Something About H. P. Lovecraft: A Memoir of Lovecraft by Rheinhart Kleiner Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Samuel Loveman Lovecraft as I Knew Him, by Sonia H. Davis Addenda to H.P.L.: A Memoir by August. Derleth Lovecraft's Sensitivity Lovecraft's "Conservative" The Man Who was Lovecraft, by E. Hoffmann Price A Literary Copernicus, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Memorial Poems: Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight, by August. Derleth HPL by Vincent Starrett.
Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Miscellaneous writings, poems, essays and stories that Lovecraft contributed to by other writers. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1047. Joshi I-A-25-a. A fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with several tiny rub marks to upper spine panel, several tiny pinholes to rear flap fold, new price ink stamped to lower front flap fold. (25682)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in very good+ dust jacket. (Light erasure on front paste down. Trace of shelf-soiling at spine. Trifle chipping at spine ends, no loss to titles. ) 3000 copies printed. ; 305 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
H. P. Lovecraft. Something About Cats And Other Pieces. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1949.
Price: US$446.25 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. First edition, first issue in original, unclipped ($3.00), jacket in protective sheet. A collection of miscellaneous stories, snippets, magazine articles, works between H. P. Lovecraft and others, as well as items about H. P. Lovecraft. Jacket is in fine condition with a small fold on interior flap corner. Bound in black cloth over boards with gilded lettering on the spine. Square, solid, and with sharp corners. Small booklate on upper left corner of front pastedown. The interior is clean and clear. One of approximately 3,000 copies printed. Pages:(10) 306 (1) Dimensions:7â x 5â x 1â .
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H.P.. SOMETHING ABOUT CATS AND OTHER PIECES.. ARKHAM HOUSE., SAUK CITY, 1949.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. About fine in fine dust jacket. (Previous owner's tasteful bookplate on front pastedown partially obscured by jacket flap.3000 copies printed. Sharp copy. ; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 305 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.