Galpin

A recent auction was a letter from Mrs. Galpin to Roy Squires. Notes below from seller:

"Dear Mr. Squires.....you are the only one...who could help me."

Letter from Isabella Galpin, June 10, 1984 to Roy A. Squires

Alfred Galpin was one of H. P. Lovecraft's earliest friend's and member of what became known as "The Lovecraft Circle". Even in his early twenties Lovecraft considered Galpin his intellectual superior, and Galpin proved him right as he became a noted Professor and expert in a variety of fields in addition to speaking numerous Romance languages. In his later years, Galpin returned to the States after spending many years in France and Italy, and perhaps sensing his own mortality endeavored to thin out his papers and among those papers, his Lovecraft collection including correspondence; he contacted the noted bookseller and friend of August Derleth and Clark Ashton Smith, Roy A. Squires to aid him in the disposition of those papers. Unfortunately they could not come to terms and the collection was dispersed. Following Galpin's death his wife, Isabella contacted Squires also seeking his aid...

"I have been working very hard on Alfred's papers, hundreds of them...I sent three boxes of documents to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin [where Derleth's papers are housed- t mcvickers], one to Brown University, and the last to Columbia, including 53 autographed letters by Sam [Loveman]. Following your advice, I have kept some papers, pamphlets and books concerning Lovecraft...I cannot yet send you a complete list of what I have but I shall do so as soon as possible...I could send everything to you and you could...contact possible interested collectors...With your experience and knowledge you are the only one of Alfred's friends who could help me..."

Signed "Isabella Galpin"

The Dunwitch Horror

Dave just dropped me a note with some interesting information.

... found this info on the Dunwitch Horror books and the printings which a nice seller posted:

"The Dunwich Horror and Others" which was originally published in 1963 with a cover price of $5 and there were 3133 copies printed.

a second printing in 1966 ,2990 copies ,cover price $6.50

a third printing in 1970 ,4050 copies ,price still $6.50

a fourth printing in 1974 ,4978 copies ,price $7.50

a fifth printing in 1981 of 3084 copies at $10 which was also price stickered over at $12.95.

In 1984 there was a revised {by STJ - CP} and corrected edition issued which had new cover art (AH #169) which had a first ,second and at least third printing (printing numbers unavailable).

J Vernon Shea articles (1984)

Fantasy Empire Presents H.P. Lovecraft

New Media Publishing, Tampa, FL, 1984. Magazine. Book Condition: Solid Fine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 50-page semi-pro mag devoted entirely to the great HPL. Includes two articles by J. Vernon Shea, "An Introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos" and "H.P. Lovecraft: The House of Shadows". There's also two comic book versions of HPL stories, "The Festival"art by Bruce Mccorkindale and "The Hound".art by JAXON It closes with a Hannes Bok portfolio.

CHARLES DEXTER WARD: LOVECRAFT SCREEN ADAPTION (1984)

CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD: LOVECRAFT SCREEN ADAPTION
JOHN STRYSIK AND ROBERT ROTHMAN 1984
CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD: LOVECRAFT SCREEN ADAPTION: JOHN STRYSIK AND ROBERT ROTHMAN 1984 tHIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED? SCREEN ADAPTION OF H.P. LOVECRAFTS STORY STRYSIK AND ROTHMEN WENT ON TO "THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN" USA (Columbia College, Chicago) 1980. 17 minutes Dir/Scr: John Strysik Prod: John Strysik & Robert Rothman Starring: Robert Ruevain, Robert Alexander, Darryl Warren, Barbara Snapp A 17 minute amateur version of the Lovecraft short story. Despite the limitations of a college production it has a feel for the genre . ---- This story revolves around a student of metaphysics, Charles Dexter Ward who befriends Erich Zann an aging violinist who lives on the floor above him. Charles is fascinated and then drawn to Zann's sinister yet wonderful music that he hears late at night drifting down from above. He, of course, discovers more than he bargained for when he peers at what beckons from beyond that strange curtained window in Zann's room.

Lovecraft: Tangential

FUNGI QUARTERLY V,1#3 "NEGLECTED LOVECRAFT" CTHULHU MYTHOS

USA Fungoid Press 1984.,SUMMER 1984 V.1#3 Fine/As New Condition .Unpaginated FICTION: The Neglected Lovecraft by R. J. Zimmerman /POETRY: Return by Ken Stone /Visitors by Pierre Comtois /Robert E. Howard And The Southern Folk Tradition by Pierre Comtois / POETRY: I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth / Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge/ Unconscious Illusions In "Kubla Khan" by Gregorio Montejo

Crypt of Cthulhu # 23 (1984)

60 page softcover horror fanzine is titled "Crypt of Cthulhu #23" and is dated St. John's Eve 1984. Fanzine is published by Cryptic Publications, Bloomfield, NJ, and is copyright 1984. Book has 12 different stories by well known horror story authors. Stories are "The Necronomicon" by Frank Belknap Long (John Dee's translation), "The Revelations of Glaski" by Ramsey Campbell, "Cthaat Aquadingen" by Brian Lumley, "The Third Cryptical Book of Hsan" by Gary Myers, "The Necronomicon: Concerning Them From Outside" by Lin Carter, "The Book of Eibon: The Unbegotten Source" by Lin Carter, "Confessions of The Mad Monk Clithanus: The Incantation of The Elder Sign" by Lin Carter, "The Necronomicon - The Origin of A Spoof" by Colin Wilson, "Preface To The Necronomicon" by L. Sprague deCamp, "The Case of Simon's Necronomicon" by Robert C. Carey, "Lovecraft's Necronomicon: An Introduction By Robert M. Price, "Reconstructing DeVermis Mysteriis" by Robert M. Price, "Some Notes On The Eltdown Shards" by Robert M. Price, "The Pnakotic Manuscripts: A Study By Robert M. Price and "Prehuman Language In Lovecraft" by Will Murray. Front cover artwork is by Peter H. Gilmore. Interior artwork is by Mike MacKenzie and Rodolfo A. Ferraresi.