[Rarebooks] Offering: Lovecraft, THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH (1936).

[Michael John Thompson]

LOVECRAFT, H.P. [Howard Phillips].

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH. Illustrated by Frank A. Utpatel.

Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936.

First edition. Octavo, original black cloth titled in silver. Of two 
known bindings, this copy has the title in upper and lower case 
letters. 158 pp., four illustrations by Utpatel. Inner hinges a 
trifle pulled, cloth on spine panel wrinkled, as is usual for this 
book. A very good clean copy.

400 copies were printed. Around 200 copies were bound, the remaining 
sheets destroyed or abandoned. 150 were bound in black cloth, the 
remainder in a secondary binding of white cloth. A dust wrapper was 
issued as an afterthought, and exists in two states; due to a leaky 
garage, fewer than 100 had dust wrappers. An errata sheet was made up 
some time after initial publication and exists in some copies. Our 
copy has neither a dust wrapper or an errata sheet. H.P. Lovecraft's 
first published book, and the only book of his published during his 
lifetime (discounting the still-born edition of THE SHUNNED HOUSE). 
The book was printed in April, 1936, the edition not bound until 
November, Lovecraft received his copies late in the year and sent out 
some inscribed copies as Christmas presents, was hospitalized soon 
after that and dead on March 15, 1937.

$ 2,500.00 US, trade discount allowed.

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