LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY

The covers are all nondescript, each with a different color paper cover.

LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIB V.1-7 STRANGE PRESS

Book Condition: Very Good. An offset reprint of the complete set of 7 volumes originally printed by SSR Publications between 1952 - 1955 in limited editions of 75 numbered copies each. All volumes in this set are reproduced from copy #70 of the originals, and while undated, this reprint series was apparently done in the 1970s, possibly for EOD mailings & is not listed in Joshi's bibliography. Some light dust soiling / age-tanning to covers, else all 7 are in very good condition Joshi I-A-28-a, III-B-35, and II-C-27.
per Indicks history of the Esoteric Order of Dagon
"EOD's lucky 13th (1975-76?) contained 847 pages. Of these, 227 pages consisted of generous reprint by two acolytes, Scott Connors and Randy Everts, of a classic Lovecraftian lode of information, namely George Wetzel's long out of print Lovecraft Collectors Library, which had originally been a seven-volume mimeographed set. In that same mailing, Everts also contributed a 34 page wraps/bound reprint of a 1910 book about Ambrose Bierce, and Connors added his own 3 page Dagonzine".

Volume I:
SELECTED ESSAYS I HOWARD PHILLIPS
LOVECRAFT I VOLUME ONE I THE
LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY I EDITED
BY GEORGE WETZEL I [publishers device] 1952 I
SSR PUBLICATIONS I North Tonawanda New
York
”Idealism and Materialism—A Reflection"; 19-
22: “A Confession of Unfaith“; 23-26: ”Nietscheism [sic] and
-Realism”; [27-28]: blank.

Volume ll:
SELECTED ESSAYS I HOWARD PHILLIPS
LOVECRAFT I VOLUME TWO I THE
LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY I EDITED
BY GEORGE WETZEL I [publisher's device]
1953 I SSR PUBLICATIONS I North
Tonawanda New York ·
“A Descent to Avernus"; 11-12: ”The Brief
Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler"; 13: ”Anglo-
Saxondom"; 15-16: ”Revolutionary Mythology”; 17-18: ”The
Trip of Theobaldf; 19-[2s]; A; [26-28]: blank.

Volume III:
SELECTED POETRY I HOWARD PHILLIPS
LOVECRAFT I VOLUME THREE I THE
LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY I EDITED
BY GEORGE WETZEL I [publisher’s device]
1953 I SSR PUBLICATIONS I North
Tonawanda New York
”Bells"; 7-8: “The Voice"; 9-10: ”On the Death of a Rhyming
Critic"; 11: “Monos: An Ode"; 12: "lnspiration”; 13-17: "Hylas
and Myrrha, a Tale"; 17: "Ambition"; 18-20: ”The Bookstall";
20: “On Receiving a Picture of Swans"; 21-22: "To Edward John
Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany"; 23: "To
Mr. Lockhart, on His Poetry"; 24-25: “Autumn"; 26: “lterum
Conjunctae"; 26-27: [Editor’s note on Lovecraft’s "Archibald Maynwaring" pseudonym]; 27: "To the Eighth of November";
‘ 2.8: "The Pensive Swain"; [29-30]: blank

Volume IV:
SELECTED POETRY I HOWARD PHILLIPS
LOVECRAET I- VOLUME IV I THE LOVECRAET
COLLECTORS LIBRARY I EDITED BY GEORGE
WETZEL I [rule] I SSR [acknowledgments page:]
March, 1955
"A Cycle of Verse" (includes "Oceanus," p. 5; "Clouds," p. 5; "Mother
Earth," p. 6); 7-9: "Ver Rusticum"; 10: "Earth and Sky"; 11:
"Prologue" [to "Fragments from an Hour of Inspiration" by
Jonathan E. Hoag]; 11-12: "Solstice"; 12: "The Garden" (i.e., "A
Garden"); 13-15: "Nathicana"; 15: "The Poet of Passion"; 15-17:
“Lines for Poet’s Night at the Scribblers’ Club"; 18: "Cindy:
Scrub Lady in a State Street Skyscraper"; 18-19: "The Dead
Bookworm"; 20-21: "Ave atque Vale"; 22-23: "The Dream"; 24-
25: "Ye Ballade of Patrick von Flynn"; 2.6: "Pacifist··War Song-
191’7"; 27: "The Nymph's Reply to the Modern Business Man";
27-28: "Grace" (with introductory paragraph entitled “Ward
Phillips Replies"); 28-30: "To Greece, 191'7"; 30-32: "Lines on
the 25th Anniversary of the Providence Evening News, 1892-
1917"; 32: "Fact and Fancy"; [33-34]: blank.

Volume V:
THE AMATEUR JOURNALIST I HOWARD
PHILLIPS LOVECRAET I VOLUME FIVE I THE
LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY I EDITED
BY GEORGE WETZEL I I1‘ul€l I SSR I 1955
"The Simple Spelling Mania"; 7-10: "President's Message" (from The National
Amateur, Iuly 1923); 11-12: "Amateur Criticism"; 13-14: "The ·
Symphonic Ideal"; 15-17: "The Professional Incubus"; [18]:
blank; 19-20: "A Reply to The Liagerer"; 21: "Concerning
'Persia-—in Europe' "; [22]: blank; 23-24: ”L.·2s Mouckos
Pontostiques"; 25-33: ”Looking Baclward" (abridged); [34-36]:
blank.5.
Volume Six: COMMENTARIES. North Tonawanda, N.Y.:
SSR Publications, 1955. iii, [4-].37 pp.
Contains: E. A. Edkins, "idiosyncrasiesies of HPL," pp. 5-7;
james F. Morton, “A Few Memories,” pp. 8-9; Edward H. Cole,
"Ave atque Vale!” pp. 10-17; George Wetzel, “The Cthulhu _.,
Mythos: A Study,” pp. 18-27; Matthew H. Onderdonk, "'The
Lord of R’lyeh,” pp. 28-37.
THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES HOWARD
PHILLIPS LOVECRAET I VOLUME FIVE I THE
LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY I EDITED
BY GEORGE WETZEL SSR I 1955
Contains: George [T.] Wetzel, “Amateur Press Works," pp. v-
17; Robert E. Briney, “Professional Works and Miscellany," pp.
18-42.
A landmark in Lovecraft bibliography, giving the first
extensive listing of Lovecraft’s amateur press works. The
foundation for all subsequent work in the field.
See also lll—G-26.

Lovecraft Comes to Australia

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By 1952, the Australians had their first SF conference, but the Weird Tales Gang still had a lot of strength. In 1952, Lovecraft had been gone nearly 15 years, but was not a dim memory. The booklet (see image above, and text of the seller below) was dedicated, in part, to HPL.

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FIRST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION"
March 22, 1952 - Edited & Published by Nick Solntseff
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Science Fiction has always been extremely popular in Australia, but it wasn't until well after WWII - March 22, 1952 in Sydney - that the "Auzzies" realized their 1st Convention. The SF Commitee consisted of Chairman William D. Veney, Secretary Graham B. Stone, Treasurer Nick Solntseff, Auctioneer Arthur Haddon, and Film coordinator Lex Banning. The Convention extended over three days and included films, an auction, various programs of what is Science Fiction and The Futurian Society meeting. This program booklet also contains many congratulatory pages from fellow enthusiasts in America - Forrest Ackerman, Roy A. Squires, Mel Korshak, Lloyd Eshbach and the booklet was dedicated in memoriam to H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Abraham Merritt, and Stanley Weinbaum.