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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 2500 copies. xiv, 313 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Derleth 56 Black cloth. Lacking the dust jacket. Spine dull, writing on flyleaf. Very good
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
LOVECRAFT, H.P.. The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Compiled by August Derleth. Illustrated with black and white plates. Half-title and first page loose and laid in, ink notation in the margin of one page, bookseller ticket and tiny ownership stamp on endpapers, very good in a very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear, and a lightly toned spine with tiny nicks and tears. One of 2500 copies. A collection of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H.P.. The Shuttered Room. Arkham House, 1959.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Soiling to page edges. Rubbing and darkening to jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Compiled by August Derleth. Dust jacket has some toning to it, the top of the spine of the dust jacket has some crinkling to it and a 1/4" closed tear, some wear to the extremities. The previous owner's stamp in red is on the front board. Not price-clipped with the $5.00 price intact. The book itself is fine. First Edition - Joshi 56.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth covers are mostly clean, with gilt title on spine. Boards show some edgewear. Corners are bumped. Spine has gilt text and is bright with softened ends. Binding is secure. Pale gray end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear. Frontispiece is present. Illustrations, photographs, are clear. Interior is gently age-toned. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block is bumped at lower back corner where cover corner is bumped. See photos. Illustrated DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper. DJ has some edgewear, chipped corners, closed tears along head edge, bumping along foot edge, some staining to back, wear at spine shoulder. See photos.** PS2024.0214** 313 pages. 5 x 7 3/8 inches** From Arkham House Publishers, on the twentieth anniversary of its foundation, comes this collection of Lovecraftiana. Compiled by August Derleth, who developed the title story from a piece left incomplete at Lovecraft's death, the volume "offers some illuminating footnotes to Lovecraft's story, and adds to the list of Cthulhu tales the memorable title story and the haunting Fisherman of Falcon Point." (jacket flap)** Jacket illustration by Richard Taylor, artist, illustrator and cartoonist.** 2500 copies printed from Linotype Garamond by the Collegiate Press, The George Banta Company in Menasha, Wisconsin. The paper is Winnebago Eggshell. Binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009900"**
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. xiv, 313, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine, bookseller's ticket on paste down, in a very Near Fine dust jacket with a faint crease along corner of front panel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands. The Shuttered Room & Other Pieces. Arkham House, 1959.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collection of Lovecraft stories & juvenilia, plus many articles, essays and appreciations by others for Lovecraft. Some photos. VG; very minor bumps to lower tips and rear upper tip in lightly worn jacket (age-darkening to back panel). 2500 copies published. A very nice copy overall.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1959. First Edition/Printing black Hardcover with gold printing on spine and original DJ, xiv + 313 pp. One of 2527 copies printed. Foreward by August Derleth. 5 glossy B&W illustrated pages. Large collection (over 30 pieces) of Lovecraftian fiction and nonfiction, including HPL's Commonplace Book, poems, memoirs/essays, early HPL tales and more. Authors include HPL, Derleth, Bloch, C.A. Smith, Lin Carter, J.P. Brennan, and others. Unclipped DJ has minimal wear & 1/8" closed tear at bottom right corner, very mild toning at very top of DJ flaps & top of white DJ back. Book is tight, square, unmarked, hint of beginning foxing on top textblock. Book was purchased new from Arkham in 1960s and partly read by me. A clean, fine/near fine, unmarked copy.
Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H.P. and Divers Hands. The Shuttered Room & Other Pieces. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1959.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Sauk City: Arkham House:, 1959. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 313 pp. Cover artwork by: Richard Taylor, Clean, straight and tight in a crisp and tidy jacket. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$396.79 + shipping
Description: Collection of works by and letters of Lovecraft. Includes The Shuttered Room; The Fisherman of Falcon Point; The Little Glass Bottle; The Secret Cave; The Mystery of the GraveYard; The Mysterious Ship; The Alchemist; Poetry and the Gods; The Street; Old Bugs; Idealism and Materialism: A Reflection; The Commonplace Book of H. P. Lovecraft; Lovecraft n Providence; Lovecraft as a Mentor; Out of the Ivory Tower; Three Hours with H. P. Lovecraft; Memories of a Friendship; Homage to H. P. Lovecraft; H. P. L.; Lines to H. P. Lovecraft; Revenants; The Barlow Tributes; H. P. Lovecraft: The Books; H. P. Lovecraft: The Gods; Addendum: Some Observations on the Carter Glossary; Notes on the Cthulhu Mythos; Lovecraft's First Book; Dagon; The Strange High House in the Mist; and The Outsider. First edition, one of 2500 copies, hardback bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Original pictorial dust jacket, unclipped. Photographic frontispiece printed on glossy paper with caption. Pictorial vignette to title page. A few photographs throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket edges, sunning to spine, spine edges worn with small loss to top edge of spine. Browning to rear panel and fly leaves, concentrated more around the edges. Rubbing and some scuffs to the fold and to corners. Cloth corners a little bumped. Small water stain to lower edge, which has affected the bottom edge of the text block faintly, and then slightly the front and rear pages. Text block edges a little toned. Otherwise clean internally, a lovely bright copy. Overall very good condition. 313 pp.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in very good+ dust jacket. (Shallow chips at spine ends on jacket. Couple short edge tears & traces of light shelfwear to jacket. ) (313pp. ) (5 1/2" X 7 3/4") 2500 copies printed. ; 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"; 313 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Handsomely preserved copy of this great anthology of short horror stories, mostly by the genres master H. P. Lovecraft, presented alongside a number of interesting others selected by Lovecraft and the books editor, August Derleth. This is the first edition, published by Arkham House, Wisconsin, in 1959, in Fine condition.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
H.P. Lovecraft. The Shuttered Room & Other Pieces. Arkham House, 1959.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing (one of 2527 copies printed); A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket that shows only light staining to the back panel and mild foxing to the flap edges and top of the back panel, else fine. A superlative copy of this collection of stories by a multiple of Arkham contributors including Lovecraft, Derleth, Bloch, Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, etc. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H.P. & Divers Hands. The Shuttered Room & Other Pieces. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1959.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A magnificent copy. This original dustjacket is rich in with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the publisher's original cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A stunning copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.