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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE.
LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE.
LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE.
LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE.
LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE.
LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE.

LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE.

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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937).  Beyond the Wall of Sleep ... Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1943. Large 8vo (231 x 155mm). Half title. Original black cloth, the spine lettered in gilt (minor indentation to upper cover), the dust-jacket designed by August Derleth and photographed by E. Burt Trimpey from sculptures by Clark Ashton Smith and with the price of $5.00 unclipped (some creasing to the head and foot of the backstrip, lower wrapper lightly browned). Provenance: Harold J. Isaac (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the second "omnibus" volume of the author's short stories, including two previously unpublished. A printed note at the end states: "Twelve hundred copies of this book have been printed by The Collegiate Press, George Banta Publishing Company, from linotype Caslon Old Face on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Bancroft Arrestox, black natural finish." The Introduction by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei opens: "When the late great Howard Philips Lovecraft died five years ago, he left a singularly fascinating body of work, to the collecting and publishing of which the editors of this volume and its predecessor dedicated themselves. It was almost immediately apparent that, whole by no means all the Lovecraft writings could be preserved, the best of those writings might be published in a trilogy of omnibus volumes. The material, moreover, fell easily into three groupings, of which the first was made up of the best prose fiction and the masterly exposition of Supernatural Horror in Literature. The second must clearly contain the remaining prose, fiction and non-fiction, selected poems, and various miscellaneous pieces, while the third must with equal certainty be a volume of Selected Letters. It with the present volume, the second in the projected trilogy, that we are here concerned ..." Please note that the original dust-jacket has been photographed in its modern protective archival Mylar wrapper, thereby avoiding any risk of damage through its temporary removal. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (1983) 1041; Currey Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography (1979) p.320; Jaffery The Arkham House Companion (1992) 4; Joshi H. P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2009) A17: "... The second major omnibus of Lovecraft's work, containing a mix of stories, revisions, and poems; 1,217 copies." RARE.

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