[Rarebooks] Offering: Three H.P. Lovecraft items.

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering: Three H.P. Lovecraft items.

Lovecraft, H.P. [Howard Phillips]. THE FESTIVAL. TYPED MANUSCRIPT 
(TMs). Original typed manuscript, carbon copy, on the rectos of 10 
sheets of plain 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper. Circa 1923. Approximately 
3,000 words, double-spaced. "H. P. Lovecraft, / 598 Angell St, / 
Providence, R. I." typed at the upper left corner of the first sheet, 
the original street address overwritten to "66 College" in 
Lovecraft's hand (May 1933 or after). Circulating copy with his 
penciled notation "please return" below the address on the first 
leaf.  The manuscript has several minor corrections and additions in 
Lovecraft's hand which were incorporated into the final published 
version (Weird Tales, January, 1925). It was Lovecraft's custom to 
circulate copies of recently completed stories among his friends for 
their comments, and presumably this manuscript made the rounds in 
this manner. The Festival is an early tale in the "Cthulhu Mythos", 
notable as the first story in which reference is made to the 
fictional town of Arkham, Massachussetts, as well as being the first 
tale to give a lengthy quote from The Necronomicon and to tell us 
something of its history.  The manuscript is typed on cheap pulp 
paper stock which is frayed at edges, quite age-darkened, and 
delicate at the folds, several leaves with tape repairs to versos. 
Fair to good condition. Provenance: Barlow / Derleth Papers. $4,750.00
Offers considered.

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Lovecraft, H.P. [Howard Phillips]. CHRISTMAS CARD, SIGNED "HPL" [IN 
MONOGRAM] AND DATED 1934 IN ROMAN NUMERALS BY LOVECRAFT. Stiff card, 
6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, printed on recto only, four color printing, 
probably chromolithography. With envelope addressed in Lovecraft's 
hand to Robert H. Barlow, postmarked 17 December 1934. The card 
illustrates a nineteenth-century New England winter scene. The card 
was printed in duotone (black and gold) and then hand-tinted. Fine. 
Provenance: The Grill / Binkin collection, item 523. $850.00
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Lovecraft, H.P. [Howard Phillips]. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF H. P. 
LOVECRAFT AND FRANK BELKNAP LONG, 1931. Silverprint, 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 
inches. Photograph of Lovecraft and Long in Brooklyn, New York, taken 
by Wilfred B. Talman in 1931. Captioned in ink on verso: "H. P. 
Lovecraft / & / F. B. Long / B'klyn 1931 / Taken by / Wilfred B. / 
Talman.". Fine.  $450.00

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