Reference
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. 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, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi-xiv [1-2] 3-237 [238: limitation statement], 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 IN "THE EYRIE." Edited by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, 1979. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Prints all important letters by and about Lovecraft which were published in "The Eyrie," the letter column in Weird Tales magazine.
H. P. LOVECRAFT IN THE ARGOSY: COLLECTED CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE MUNSEY MAGAZINE. Edited by S. T. Joshi.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1994]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Prints Lovecraft's letters to Argosy and All-Story magazine 1913-1914.
H. P. LOVECRAFT: LETTERS TO HENRY KUTTNER. Edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Prints Lovecraft's correspondence with Henry Kuttner which started in 1936 and lasted until Lovecraft's death, which consisted of ten letters.
H. P. LOVECRAFT: LETTERS TO ROBERT BLOCH and H. P. LOVECRAFT: LETTERS TO ROBERT BLOCH SUPPLEMENT. Edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi [2 VOLUMES.]
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1993]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First editions. Prints Lovecraft's correspondence with Robert Bloch which started when Bloch was 16 years old in 1933 and lasted until Lovecraft's death. Preface by Robert Bloch.
SELECTED LETTERS 1925-1929 [Volume 2].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
SELECTED LETTERS 1925-1929 [Volume 2].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. Edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
SELECTED LETTERS 1929-1931 [Volume 3].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
SELECTED LETTERS 1929-1931 [Volume 3].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
SELECTED LETTERS 1929-1931 [Volume 3].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE ... Preface by S. T. Joshi. Art by Divers Hands. The Illustrated Edition.
[Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Montilla Publications, 1992.]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. A critical survey of horror fiction (emphasis on British and American literature) by the most important twentieth-century American supernatural fiction writer.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: FOUR DECADES OF CRITICISM.
Athens, OH. Ohio University Press, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, (trade paperback issue). This is the trade paperback issue. Critical writings on Lovecraft's work. Contributors include, S.T. Joshi, Edmund Wilson, Fritz Leiber, Peter Penzoldt, Dirk Mosig and others.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: FOUR DECADES OF CRITICISM.
Athens, OH. Ohio University Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Critical writings on Lovecraft's work. Contributors include, S.T. Joshi, Edmund Wilson, Fritz Leiber, Peter Penzoldt, Dirk Mosig and others.
LOVECRAFT: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE.
[Lexingtion, KY]: The University Press of Kentucky, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE GREAT DETECTIVE IN PAPERBACK.
Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Publications, 1990. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bilbliography, checklist and index of Sherlock Holmes in U.S. and British paperback editions. Illustrated.
SURVEY OF MODERN FANTASY LITERATURE.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J. Salem Press, [1983]. Octavo, five volumes, cloth. First edition. The first extended review of major works of modern fantasy literature, providing essay-reviews (averaging 2000 words) of 500 important novels (including trilogies and multi-volume series, like Amber and The Book of the New Sun) and single author story collections, from Walpole's THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764-5) to fiction published in 1981 by John Crowley, Roger Zelazny, and others. Also includes nineteen essays that survey selected fantasy sub-genres, a chronology of surveyed titles, and annotated checklists of secondary material and fantasy anthologies. "A major reference work ..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-24 and Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-24. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-36. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 91.
THE ENGINES OF THE NIGHT: SCIENCE FICTION IN THE EIGHTIES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xi] xii [xiii-xiv] [1] 2-198 [199] [200-202: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], boards. First edition. Thirty-six essays focusing on the current state of the genre with analyses of the factors that caused its decline. Malzberg argues that the decade of the 1950s was the "golden age" of American SF and its decline during the last two decades was largely due to restricted market, lazy authors, and commercial practices of editors and publishers. Many of Malzberg's charges were and are still on target. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-83.
THE DICTIONARY OF IMAGINARY PLACES. EXPANDED EDITION ...
San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1987]. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second edition, enlarged, U. S. issue. "An interesting, inevitably incomplete compilation which rewards casual browsing." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-39. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-39. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 18.
THEODORE STURGEON.
New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981. Octavo, Wrappers. First edition. Paperback issue. Study of the works of Theodore Sturgeon.
A CANTICLE FOR P. SCHUYLER MILLER [caption title].
Newark, N.J. Sam Moskowitz, 1975. Large octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-11 [12: blank], mimeographed from typewritten copy, pictorial front wrapper (no back wrapper as issued), stapled. First edition. Limited printing of "not over 300 copies." This copy is signed by Moskowitz. Tribute and brief biography.
MISSISSIPPI REVIEW.
Hattiesburg: Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, 1988. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Special issue guest-edited by Larry McCaffery devoted to cyberpunk fiction including "Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium" with comments by Gregory Benford, David Brin, Samuel R. Delany, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley and others, fiction by Samuel R. Delany, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, Thomas M. Disch, Kim Stanley Robinson and others, essays by Tom Maddox, George Slusser and others, an interview with William Gibson, and other material. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 9-127.