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DEVIL STORIES: AN ANTHOLOGY ...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-xix [xx] 1-332, original decorated light reddish brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, running Borzoi stamped in black on rear panel, all edges trimmed. First edition, variant (probably later) binding. H. P. Lovecraft's copy with his signature at the top edge of the front free endpaper. The book was given to HPL by Samuel Loveman who has written on the endpaper: "For Howard / as a token of his Friend's esteem. S.L." Collects twenty stories by Niccolo Machiavelli, Washington Irving, Wilhelm Hauff, Nikolai Gogol, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Baudelaire, and others. An important early collection of Devil stories, including a number of obscure European tales. Joshi and Michard, Lovecraft's Library: A Catalogue 702. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1419. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-48. Bleiler (1978), p. 171. Reginald 12535.
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4991 copies printed. Very personal memoir by a close friend and member of the original Lovecraft circle. "Of all Lovecraft's chroniclers, the one who probably knew him best was Frank Belknap Long. Long's affectionate 'portrait of HPL' includes a wealth of anecdotal material and reconstructed conversations with Lovecraft, but it makes no pretense at formal biography." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-63. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-42.
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4991 copies printed. Very personal memoir by a close friend and member of the original Lovecraft circle. "Of all Lovecraft's chroniclers, the one who probably knew him best was Frank Belknap Long. Long's affectionate 'portrait of HPL' includes a wealth of anecdotal material and reconstructed conversations with Lovecraft, but it makes no pretense at formal biography." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-63. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-42.
H. P. LOVECRAFT HIS LIFE, HIS WORK.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, 1979. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Biographical essay by Faig and a chronology of Lovecraft's life.
H.P.L.: MEMOIRS, CRITIQUES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
North Tonawanda, New York: SSR Publications, 1955. Wrappers. First edition. 1/200 copies. The majority of this material in this volume was issued simultaneously as Volumes VI & VII of the LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY. Additions include Lin Carter's essay "HPL: THE HISTORY" & the full version of the introduction "THE RESEARCH OF A BIBLIO." Joshi III-C-27. "A landmark in Lovecraft bibliography..." "The foundation for all subsequent work in the field." - Joshi III-B-35.
MIRAGE ON LOVECRAFT: A LITERARY VIEW.
Baltimore, MD: Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings: Publishers, 1965. Wrappers. First edition. One of approximately 200 copies printed. Examination of Lovecraft, his views on fantastic literature and his literary style. Contributions by Lovecraft, August Derleth, David Keller and others.
ON LOVECRAFT AND LIFE.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1992]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Includes "Memories of Lovecraft (1934)," Barlow's memoir of Lovecraft's visit with him in Florida, present here in it's unexpurgated form and also "Autobiography."
"SUNSET TERRACE IMAGERY IN LOVECRAFT" AND OTHER ESSAYS.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition.
THE PARENTS OF HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Essay written for the centennial of Lovecraft's birth.
SELECTED PAPERS ON LOVECRAFT.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1989]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Collects five essays by Joshi first printed in various issues of Crypt of Cthulhu, several expanded, all revised.
IN SEARCH OF LOVECRAFT.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1991]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Collection of essays, fiction and poetry by a correspondent of Lovecraft. Introduction by Robert Bloch, afterword by Donald Wandrei.
LOVECRAFT REMEMBERED.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "An exhaustive and well-nigh definitive collection of memoirs of Lovecraft by friends, correspondents, and acquaintances. Virtually all the memoirs contained in previous Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft miscellany have been reprinted, along with numerous other memoirs published in fan and amateur magazines and other sources." - Joshi, Arkham 189.
H. P. LOVECRAFT: A PORTRAIT.
Baltimore, Maryland: Mirage, 1968. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second edition. 500 copies printed. New edition of IN MEMORIAM HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT ..., first published privately in 1941 in an edition of 94 copies and subsequently collected in Lovecraft's BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP (1943). The first substantial memoir of Lovecraft, written by a close friend and publisher of Lovecraft's first book. The Mirage edition adds an introduction, "Notes on W. Paul Cook," by Jack L. Chalker. "Of many existing memoirs, one of the best ..." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature, pp. 407-08.
SOME NOTES ON H. P. LOVECRAFT.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House: Publishers, 1959. Small octavo, printed wrappers, stapled. First edition. Includes information on unfinished manuscripts, work habits as well as the text of four letters from Lovecraft to Derleth.
SOME NOTES ON H.P. LOVECRAFT.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House: Publishers, 1959. Small octavo, printed wrappers, stapled. First edition. Includes information on unfinished manuscripts, work habits as well as the text of four letters from Lovecraft to Derleth.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: A LIFE.
[West Warwick, R.I.]: Necronomicon Press, [1996]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Joshi on the front free endpaper. The definitive biography.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: A LIFE.
[West Warwick, R.I.]: Necronomicon Press, [1996]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. The definitive biography.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: A LIFE.
[West Warwick, R.I.]: Necronomicon Press, [1996]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. The definitive biography.
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi-xiv [1-2] 3-237 [238: limitation statement], cloth. First edition. Warm long personal inscription signed by Long to Richard Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society. Very personal memoir by a close friend and member of the original Lovecraft circle. "Of all Lovecraft's chroniclers, the one who probably knew him best was Frank Belknap Long. Long's affectionate 'portrait of HPL' includes a wealth of anecdotal material and reconstructed conversations with Lovecraft, but it makes no pretense at formal biography." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-63. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-42.
LOVECRAFT STUDIES. Nos. 2-41.
West Warwick, R.I. Necronomicon Press, 1980-1999. Octavo, 40 issues in 38 volumes (19/20 & 22/23 double issues), pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. A run of the first 41 issues, lacking the first number. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 830.
NECRONOMICON: THE BEST WEIRD TALES OF H. P. LOVECRAFT...edited by Stephen Jones.
London: Gollancz, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed by the editor Jones to Bob [Weinberg].
THE WATCHERS OUT OF TIME AND OTHERS.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1974. Octavo, illustration by Herb Arnold, cloth. First edition, first printing. All the collaborations and completions in one volume, including a fragment (unfinished at the time of Derleth's death) published here for the first time. Tymm (ed.) Horror Literature 4-101.
THE WATCHERS OUT OF TIME AND OTHERS.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1974. Octavo, illustration by Herb Arnold, cloth. First edition, first printing. All the collaborations and completions in one volume, including a fragment (unfinished at the time of Derleth's death) published here for the first time. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-112. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-101. Joshi I-C-50.
THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Cthulhu mythos novel written by Derleth based on Lovecraft notes and fragments.
THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3041 copies printed. Signed inscription by Derleth on the front free endpaper. A Cthulhu mythos novel written by Derleth based on Lovecraft notes and fragments.