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Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, original pictorial wrappers, french-fold flaps. 348 pp. Some very light wear to edges; a bright, clean, very good copy. Translated by Paule Perez with an Introduction by Francois Truchaud. Contents differ from the 1965 Arkham House Edition; this edition collects 30 tales along with the Introduction by Truchaud; the original (English Language) Arkham House edition has 37 tales, plus Lovecraft's essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature', and an introductory essay by Derleth.
Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Description: ----------( 1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---softcover, a Very Good example, a bit of age toning to the spine and a bit of light rubbing to the covers, faint spine crease, 379 pages, b&w illustrations and photos, most text is in French but there is some English, ---this contains: PARTICIPATION FRANCAISE ---- ; The Dream-Quest of Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Francois Truchaud; Les débuts de Lovecraft dans Weird Tales by Pierre Versins; Une surhumaine traqédie by Pierre Versins; Lovecraft et l'indicible by Pierre Versins; Entre le fantastique et la science-fiction : Lovecraft by Gérard Klein; Démons et Merveilles / Rêve ou Ecriture by Claude Ertal; La lettre et le désir by Michel Le Bris; Lovecraft et les trous de la toile peinte by Francis Lacassin; Les potences de Salem by Hubert Juin; La passion selon Satan by Jacques Sadoul; H.P. Lovecraft, ce grand génie venu d'ailleurs by Jacques Bergier; Rêve et création chez Lovecraft by Napoleon Murat; On disait --- by Yves Rivière; Lovecraftiana by Francois Kienzle; Témoignage by Thomas Owen; Le royaume noir by Georges Keller; Une source de Lovecraft, le diable au XIX siècle by Jacques Van Herp; L'univers d'H.P. Lovecraft by Jacques Van Herp; Lovecraft, Jean Ray, Hodgson by Jacques Van Herp; The Bottom, at last! by Yak Rivais; Une multitude d'immensitès par-delà la porte du profond sommeil by Marcel Béalu; Lovecraft-Cinéma by Michel Caen; Le Cinéma et Lovecraft by Jacques Van Herp; Essai de synopsis, d'après 'L'Affaire Charles Dexter Ward by Georges Keller & François Kienzle --- Textes de Lovecraft -----Correspondance; Le combat qui marqua la fin du siècle; Suggestions pour un guide du lecteur; Ce qui doit se dire en vers (POEMES) Mother Earth; Oceanus; The City; Bells; The Port; Continuity; Nyarlathotep; Souvenir; Le terrible vieillard; L'image dans la maison déserte; Dans le caveau ---- Etudes Americaines ----Précisions biographiques by August Derleth; Genèse d'une mystification by August Derleth; The Dream and the Shadow by Robert E Howard (poem); H.P.L. by Henry Kuttner (poem); As a Small Boy by Robert Bloch; Creeps by Night by Dashiell Hammett; A la recherche d'H.P. Lovecraft by J. Vernon Shea; Les livres - de Lovecraft by William Scott Home; Les illustrateurs de Lovecraft by John E. Vetter; Lovecraft et les méqalithes de la Nouvelle-Angleterre by Andrew E. Rothovius; Voyage à Arkham et vers les étoiles by Fritz Leiber; Promenades avec H.P. Lovecraft by C.M. Eddy Jr.; Lovecraft in Retrospect by J. Ramsey Campbell ---Iconographie diverse (photos et illustrations) ---Bande dessinee (d'après La Cité sans nom, d'H.P.L.) et illustrations by Philippe Druillet; Bibliographie by Jacques Van Herp; Note , any image directly beside this listing is the actual item and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 8.25w x 10.5h Inches
Seller: Leonard Shoup, BURLINGTON, ON, Canada
H. P. Lovecraft. Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Arkham House Publishers, 1969.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. One of 3000 copies. Some smudging to covers from handling. Slight dust soiling on top edge. Dust jacket price clipped. Spine and back of jacket yellowed. Shelf rubbed along front fold, some wear to spine head, heel, and tips. Top edge of jacket flaps and rear fold yellowed. Jacket in mylar.
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
H. P. Lovecraft; August Derleth. The Lurker at the Threshold. Victor Gollancz LTD, London, 1969.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A superb copy of a Lovecraft-Derleth horror novel, a gripping and thrilling tale that had originally been published by Arkham House. The second Gollancz impression.'The Lurker at the Threshold' is an interesting collaborative horror novel, based on short fragments written by H. P. Lovecraft which he left behind when he died. His close friend, August Derleth, took the notes to construct and write this novel.The first edition was published by Arkham House in 1945, the publishing house founded by Derleth to honour the writings of Lovecraft.Without the original dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Spine is very lightly faded. Minor spots to the top edge. Bookseller's label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
H. P. Lovecraft. Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Arkham House Publishers, 1969.
Price: US$129.99 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Super light jacket wear. Mint inside
Seller: Michigander Books, Dundee, MI, U.S.A.
LOVECRAFT, H.P. and others. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1969.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Collected by August Derleth. Jacket art by Lee Brown Coye. A few small soil marks on page edges, small faint stain at bottom margin of last few leaves and rear endpapers, very good in a very good dust jacket with tiny tears, a few small stains, and a drink ring on the rear panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H. P.. TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS. Arkham House., Sauk City:, 1969.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. 20 stories by Lovecraft and others, including Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, August Derleth, Colin Wilson, James Wade and J. Vernon Shea. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Kathmandu Books, Winter Park, FL, U.S.A.
H.P. Lovecraft & Others. TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1969.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of four thousand copies printed by Arkham House. Dust Jacket designed by Lee Brown Coye. Endpaper holds previous owner's inscription, otherwise pages are clean and free of markings. Binding is square and tight. Black cloth boards are clean with very faint surface wear and fading. Gilt titles on spine are faded but intact overall. Spine also has some surface wear and fading in the cloth. Textblock is foxed on top edge, fore edge and lower edge are clean. Spine tail cloth is starting to fray, lower corners have two 1/4" open tears in cloth. DJ is creased, rubbed, with open tears to extremities. DJ is in mylar cover. Pictures provided upon request.
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: A near-fine copy handsomely bound in gleaming black boards in finely woven Novelex cloth and stamped brightly in gilt along the spine. With a name and date in ink at the top of the front endpaper; otherwise, very clean and tight throughout. In a very good plus dust jacket with the price of $7.50 at the top of the inside front flap. With light wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends and at the corners. With an gathering of eerie other-wordly figures drawn by Brown Cove on the front panel. A handsome collector's copy. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos.[a]Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. Lovecraft then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". They introduced him to Weird Tales, which became his most prominent publisher. Lovecraft's time in New York took a toll on his mental state and financial conditions. He returned to Providence in 1926 and produced some of his most popular works, including "The Call of Cthulhu", At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time. He remained active as a writer for 11 years until his death from intestinal cancer at the age of 46. Lovecraft's literary corpus is rooted in cosmicism, which was simultaneously his personal philosophy and the main theme of his fiction. Cosmicism posits that humanity is an insignificant part of the cosmos and could be swept away at any moment. He incorporated fantasy and science fiction elements into his stories, representing the perceived fragility of anthropocentrism. This was tied to his ambivalent views on knowledge. His works were largely set in a fictionalized version of New England. Civilizational decline also plays a major role in his works, as he believed that the West was in decline during his lifetime. Lovecraft's early political views were conservative and traditionalist; additionally, he held a number of racist views for much of his adult life. Following the Great Depression, Lovecraft's political views became more socialist while still remaining elitist and aristocratic. Throughout his adult life, Lovecraft was never able to support himself from his earnings as an author and editor. He was virtually unknown during his lifetime and was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before his death. A scholarly revival of Lovecraft's work began in the 1970s, and he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction. Many direct adaptations and spiritual successors followed. Works inspired by Lovecraft, adaptations or original works, began to form the basis of the Cthulhu Mythos, which utilizes Lovecraft's characters, setting, and themes. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates 1969 on the title and copyright pages; only 4,000 copies printed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Hp Lovecraft. Tales of cthulhu mythos Hp lovecraft Superb first 1969. Arkham house, 1969.
Price: US$259.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: In great condition. Some very small damage as seen but clearly excellently well preserved.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Collection of Cthulhu Mythos stories, all first published in pulp magazines. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of edge rubbing. (28578)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. xii, 407, [1] pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering, w/ d.j. cover art by Lee Brown Coye (very slight toning to back cover), F/F copy, with covers nearly unopened. First edition, 1 of 4000 copies printed, of this anthology containing such authors as Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Derleth, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, and others. Bloch's "Shambler from the Stars" trilogy made its inaugural appearance in this anthology, as did Colin Wilson's previously unpublished "Return of the Lloigor."
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: This is one of 25 folders printed during February of 1969 to enclose manuscripts from the collection of Roy A. Squires". Contained within is the typescript with Smith's holographic corrections of "The Crystals", a prose poem which opens, "Raptly as one who would divine the perilous eyes of Sleep, and the dreams and mysteries which lurk therein, I sought to fathom the gulf-enclosing orb of the crystal." This poem first appeared in the Arkham House collection Poems in Prose (1965). It was through his poetry that Smith (1893-1961) gained the attention of both Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft, who he remains inextricably linked as the big three of weird tales. Smith manuscripts are both scarce and highly sought after. Bound within the light brown paper folder is a title page, the mylar sleeve housing the manuscript, and a limitation page. Fine.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.