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London: Martin Secker, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt spine. First English trade edition, preceded by a limited edition by the Nonesuch Press in 1930. Includes "A Reminiscence" by David Garnet. Pencil ownership inscription on front free flyleaf, else near fine.

London: Martin Secker, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt spine. First English edition. Lovely old UK bookseller's label on rear pastedown, closed fray at top of spine, else a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket.

London: Martin Secker, 1926. First edition. Very good.. Large octavo. Olive brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Small private bookplate in upper corner of the front pastedown, light foxing early and late, otherwise very good and bright. First edition, limited to five hundred copies. A little-known dramatic work (first produced in London at the Regent Theatre, May 22, 1927), DAVID "is a play of ideas using a Biblical framework" (Univ. of North Carolina). ROBERTS A34.

London: C. W. Daniel, Ltd, 1920. Stiff salmon wrappers with printed labels. First edition, "Plays for a People's Theatre. II." Small private library book label of Arthur Willliam Foster (1850-1930) on pastedown, wraps slightly tanned, otherwise a nice copy without the outer printed jacket. Arthur William Foster was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1850, he came to California in the middle 1860's, settling in San Francisco, and later, moving his family to San Rafael. Founder of the Bank of San Rafael (later acquired by Wells Fargo Bank), he was President of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, a regent of the University of California for 27 years.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt cloth. Portrait frontispiece, two further portraits in text. First edition. Near fine in a somewhat dusty, price-excised dust jacket with only minimal signs of use. ROBERTS F5.

London: Martin Secker, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Gilt cloth. Later printing of the Secker "Thin Paper" Edition. Spine slightly sunned, gilt very bright, 1934 ownership signature of poet/publisher James Laughlin, else very good.

Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hessian cloth backed, gloriously marbled decorated boards. First edition, US issue, which preceded the UK edition by nine years. An unnumbered copy of the 925 copies bearing the US imprint. Fine, partially unopened, bright copy, lacking the often derelict slipcase. ROBERTS A32.

New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First American edition. Small quarto. Pale green cloth, gilt spine. 128 pp. 136 black and white illustrations. Bibliography, chronology, list of illustrations, and index. Dust speckled at top edge, remainder mark at bottom, else a very good copy in a good, unclipped dust jacket with a tiny closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel. First American edition. Woolf is honored today as the "author of the most brilliantly argued exposition of the female standpoint in modern times, A Room of One's Own," -- from the publisher.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1944. First edition. Octavo. Cream colored stapled wrappers, printed and decorated in black and orange; design by Keith Vaughan. 31 pp. Publication limited to 1000 copies. Poems of hauntings, lost young men, and the folly of war. Purported to be a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, ''Malcolm - / Love for Christmas 1944 - / from John.'' Wraps soiled, damp-stained, yet good. A scarce relic of the Hogarth Press war-time publications in wrappers. WOOLMER 514.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1963. First edition. Fine. Black cloth, gilt spine. 110 pp. First edition. Copyright page blank. Fine, in about fine Richard Taylor designed dust jacket.   Long's slim novel, first serialized in Weird Tales in January and February/March 1931, is a novel in the "Cthulhu Mythos" vein. The story concerns a hideous stone idol brought from China, and an age-old entity which uses that idol as a material tenement to bend humanity to its evil will. Long based this story on a dream which he thought about for many years before sharing. BLEILER 1034; JOSHI 72; JAFFREY 76.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. First editions. Black boards, gilt spine. xi,432 pp.; xxiv,359 pp.; xxiii,451 pp. First editions, first impressions.   Edited and with a preface by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Volumes II & III with frontispiece photographs. Dust jacket design by Gary Gore for the complete series which ran to five volumes. All near fine in near fine dust jackets.  . JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 80, 97, & 118.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1970. First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. ix, 383 pp. Fine copy, in fine dust jacket by Gahan Wilson.  First edition, first impression. "A collection of what was at that time believed to be all the known "revisions" by Lovecraft of weird tales for a variety of professional clients, taken largely from previous Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft miscellany." -- Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, p. 96. Contributors include August Derleth, Elizabeth Berkeley, Sonia Greene, and many others. The one unrevised, original contribution is the story by Wilfred Blanch Talman, "Two Black Bottles," first published in Weird Tales for August 1927. BLEILER 1054; JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 109.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1967. First edition. Lee Brown Coye [illus].. Quarto. Black boards, gilt spine, grey unmarked endpapers. [ii], iii-v, 134 pp. Sixteen full page illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, printed on rectos only. Fine, fresh and unmarked in a very good unclipped dust jacket, also illustrated by Coye, with a small tear near the spine top edge, a skinned spot at fore-edge, and toning to white areas.  H. P. Lovecraft was a master of cosmic horror, a subgenre of horror fiction that emphasizes the insignificance of humanity in a vast and indifferent universe. His stories often feature ancient and eldritch entities that defy human comprehension and threaten to destroy the world as we know it. This limited edition volume includes three of his most influential and celebrated tales of horror.   "The Colour Out of Space:" A meteorite lands on a farm in Massachusetts, unleashing a strange and malignant force that drains the life and sanity of everything around it;  "The Dunwich… Read More

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. xi,432 pp. First edition, stated third impression (dust jacket inner flap and page 433). Fine copy,with no spotting or staining, in near fine dust jacket by Lee Brown Coye with some light sunning and an insignificant abrasion to spine.  Selected, and with an introduction by August Derleth. Contents include the novels At the Mountains of Madness / The Case of Charles Dexter Ward / The Shunned House / The Dreams of the Witch-House / The Statement of Randolph Carter / The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath / The Silver Key / Through the Gates of the Silver Key (with E. Hoffmann Price). A remarkable collection, scarce in any condition. . JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 76.