[Rarebooks] FS: Heavenly Monkey / Rare William Hope Hodgson Bibliography

[Michael John Thompson]

HODGSON, WIlliam Hope.

WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON: First and Early Editions. A 
Catalogue of First & Early Editions, Points for 
Identification & Several Rarities Bearing 
Inscriptions & Correspondence from the Author.

Vancouver, BC: The Hard Press. 1996.

First Edition, First Printing.

Octavo, sewn in French-folded wrappers made of 
handmade paper. A limited edition of 10 numbered 
copies, printed in Buenos Aires and bound in 
Vancouver by Rollin Milroy, this being copy 
number 10. 32 pp. An early book printed by 
Milroy, who later went on to found A Lone Press & 
Heavenly Monkey Press. The text is laser-printed 
with tipped-in original black and white 
photographs throughout, including a portrait of 
Hodgson. A fine copy in wrappers. A note from 
Rollin explaining the history of the printing and 
binding, on a Heavenly Monkey notecard, is loosely laid in.

¶ The catalogue of what was probably the finest 
WHH collection in private hands. I bought it in 
1995, worked hard on this catalogue, and then 
sold most of the books directly to a customer 
over the telephone. The catalogue was never 
issued as such, but as the descriptions and 
photographs existed, Rollin Milroy offered to 
print it up as a project. Rollin later went on to 
publish books under the imprint of A Lone Press 
and Heavenly Monkey - still operating today, 
publishing very high-quality hand-printed books. 
This, an early job , is not hand-printed , but it 
is hand-bound and issued with 10 tipped-in black 
& white photographs depicting the books. And what 
books! THE NIGHT LAND, one of a few copies bound 
in black cloth for the author's own use, 
inscribed by Hodgson, First editions of all the 
books with various bindings and issues described, 
*all* of the Holden & Hardingham editions in 
pictorial dust wrappers, and a copy of the first 
edition MEN OF THE DEEP WATERS inscribed by 
Hodgson to his commanding Officer in World War 
One, with a poignant letter from Hodgson pleading 
to be allowed back to fight after being thrown 
from his horse... he was in fact recommissioned 
and sent back to France, where he was killed in 
April, 1918. This letter is transcribed here in 
full. There is a four-page biography of Hodgson 
written by myself, which I recall having culled 
from other sources such as the Moskowitz 
biography in OUT OF THE STORM - although the 
letter to his C.O. does offer evidence which 
changes the date in which he was injured. The 
entire collection was formed by William Matthews, 
Bookseller and book scout extraordinaire.

$550.00 Canadian

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