[Rarebooks] Offering: A Rare H.P. Lovecraft Item

[Michael John Thompson]

(Lovecraft, Howard Phillips)

  Cook, W. Paul.  In Memoriam, Howard Phillips Lovecraft: 
Recollections, Appreciations, Estimates

  No place: [The Driftwood Press] [1941].

  First Edition.

  75 pp. 9x6, original saddle-sewn printed blue wrappers. One of 94 
copies. A scarce and important booklet on Howard Phillips Lovecraft 
(1890-1937), the early American supernatural and horror author. Cook 
was one his best friends who also first published Lovecraft at his 
Recluse Press in Athol, Massachusetts. Includes W. Paul Cook's 
autograph excised from a front free endpaper of an unknown title, 
laid in. Also, with the autographs of Daniel L. Cady (with 
rubberstamped address) and Walter J. Coates (with two loose library 
bookplates) both dated from 1915, on two different slips of paper. 
Written in December, 1940, and printed one page at an impression, by 
the author from April to June, 1941, with the cooperation of The 
Driftwood Press.

Spine and margins dampstained and discolored (interior & exterior), 
soiling, light edge wear; about very good.

A very rare book. One copy at public auction in the past 25 years (as 
per American Book Prices Current Auction Records, 2009), and that was 
this copy.

Cady and Coates were also both friends of H.P. Lovecraft, and members 
of the 'Lovecraft Circle'. W. Paul Cook published 'LAND OF ALLEN AND 
OTHER VERSE' by Coates under his imprint THE RECLUSE PRESS, Athol, 
Mass, 1928. It should be noted that the Recluse Press was the 
publisher of Lovecraft's stillborn first book, 'THE SHUNNED HOUSE' (also 1928).


Net price $450.00 US ppd in Canada and USA

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