LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips. The Shadow out of Time and other tales of horror. Including stories and novellae compiled after his death by August Derleth. London: Gollancz. 1968. 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the Gollancz yellow dust jacket. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout without stamps, inscriptions or foxing, very mild offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (35/-) and complete, a couple of very faint marks to front and spine panels, the extremities just marginally rubbed, but a very sharp example overall.
Collects four short stories and two novellas by Lovecraft previously unpublished in the UK, plus several stories written in collaboration with his close friend and literary executor, August Derleth. The publication marks yet more stellar work on the part of the publisher, Victor Gollancz, and contemporary Lovecraft aficionados who duly corrected and encouraged Gollancz to publish these previously unpublished in the UK (and thus largely inaccessible) stories, which together strengthen Lovecraft’s claim as probably the most important and influential author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century.
LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips. The Shadow out of Time and other tales of horror. Including stories and novellae compiled after his death by August Derleth. London: Gollancz. 1968. 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the Gollancz yellow dust jacket. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout without stamps, inscriptions or foxing, very mild offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (35/-) and complete, a couple of very faint marks to front and spine panels, the extremities just marginally rubbed, but a very sharp example overall.
Collects four short stories and two novellas by Lovecraft previously unpublished in the UK, plus several stories written in collaboration with his close friend and literary executor, August Derleth. The publication marks yet more stellar work on the part of the publisher, Victor Gollancz, and contemporary Lovecraft aficionados who duly corrected and encouraged Gollancz to publish these previously unpublished in the UK (and thus largely inaccessible) stories, which together strengthen Lovecraft’s claim as probably the most important and influential author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century.
