Derleth Letter to Coye on Lovecraft Book

Seller (epegana) states: AUGUST DERLETH LETTER TO ARTIST LEE BROWN COYE - Signed // Lee Brown Coye in addition to being a prominent artist for "Weird Tales", also produced a number of striking dust-jacket covers for Arkham House books.This letter from August Derleth dated 19 September 1963 notes the publisher's indecision regarding a proposed volume of tales by H. P. Lovecraft to be illustrated by Coye. The book was finally realized from Arkham House in 1967 in a limited printing entitled, "3 Tales of Horror". However "The Inhabitant of the Lake" by Ramsey Campbell did not feature a Coye cover, but rather, one by Frank Utpatel. Brief letter but interesting reading with Utpatel woodcut illustrated writing-paper. Signed with August Derleth squiggle.

Rare Copy of Bound Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936?)

Starting Bid: $1500.00 !!

Seller States: LOVECRAFT, H[oward] P[hillips] (1890-1937). The Shadow Over Innsmouth.Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by Frank A. Utpatel. First and last leaves are used as front and rear pastedown endpapers. Scarce printed errata slip laid in. Original black cloth, lettered in silver on front cover and spine (the present copy with lettering on the front cover in upper and lower case letters, one of two known bindings with no priority established). In the rare publisher's dust jacket, white paper with silver lettering on the front panel and spine matching that from the cloth binding, with no illustration. Condition: A few small areas of cloth slightly soiled, else a fine, bright copy in a like dust jacket. h.p. lovecraft's first published book and the only published during his lifetime, preceded only by the pamphlet The Sunned House (1928). According to publisher William H. Crawford, of the approximately 400 copies printed, perhaps 200 copies were bound with the remainder destroyed at a later date. Adding to the scarcity of the present copy, Crawford notes that the dust jacket and errata slip were prepared after publication, and copies are often found with one or both lacking. "No writer since Poe has had more influence on the field of macabre fiction than Howard Phillips Lovecraft. His tales of Cthulhu-malevolent beings from another dimension bent on invading our world and destroying mankind-have inspired dozens of writers (among them August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and J. Ramsey Campbell) to perpetuate the mythos with tales of their own. However, Lovecraft also wrote other types of horror and supernatural stories, some of the best of which are Poesque in design and effect." (Pronzini, Malzberg & Greenberg, Great Tales of Horror & The Supernatural, page 177).

Rare Lovecraft Volume of The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The seller states: LOVECRAFT, H[oward] P[hillips] (1890-1937). The Shadow Over Innsmouth.Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by Frank A. Utpatel. First and last leaves are used as front and rear pastedown endpapers. Scarce printed errata slip laid in. Original black cloth, lettered in silver on front cover and spine (the present copy with lettering on the front cover in upper and lower case letters, one of two known bindings with no priority established). In the rare publisher's dust jacket, white paper with silver lettering on the front panel and spine matching that from the cloth binding, with no illustration. Condition: A few small areas of cloth slightly soiled, else a fine, bright copy in a like dust jacket. h.p. lovecraft's first published book and the only published during his lifetime, preceded only by the pamphlet The Sunned House (1928). According to publisher William H. Crawford, of the approximately 400 copies printed, perhaps 200 copies were bound with the remainder destroyed at a later date. Adding to the scarcity of the present copy, Crawford notes that the dust jacket and errata slip were prepared after publication, and copies are often found with one or both lacking. "No writer since Poe has had more influence on the field of macabre fiction than Howard Phillips Lovecraft. His tales of Cthulhu-malevolent beings from another dimension bent on invading our world and destroying mankind-have inspired dozens of writers (among them August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and J. Ramsey Campbell) to perpetuate the mythos with tales of their own. However, Lovecraft also wrote other types of horror and supernatural stories, some of the best of which are Poesque in design and effect." (Pronzini, Malzberg & Greenberg, Great Tales of Horror & The Supernatural, page 177). A key title to any collection of fantasy, horror and supernatural fiction.

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1975 (Whispers)

Whispers Vol. 2, No. 2-3 (June 1975) Double-Issue Stuart David Schiff (Editor)
Stuart David Schiff, Fayetteville, NC, 1975. Perfect Bound Wraps. Book Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Cover art by Frank Utpatel.
Solid contents include: One Day in the Life of H.P. Lovecraft by Frank Belknap Long; An Autobiographical Letter by Robert E. Howard; A Letter to H. Warner Munn by Farnsworth Wright; Story-writing, a letter from H.P. Lovecraft; Anthropology, Folkways of Fandom by E. Hoffman Price. Also, fiction by Fritz Leiber, Carl Jacobi, Hugh B. Cave, Henry Hassee, Manly Wade Wellman, Karl Edward Wagner, Joseph Payne Brennan. Poetry by James Wade, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, L. Sprague de Camp, H. Warner Munn. Art by Virgil Finlay, Denis Tiani, Lee Brown Coye, others. 132 pages!

1936 copy of The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Seller States:

H. P. Lovecraft: Shadow Over Innsmouth. (Everett: Visionary Publishing Company, 1936), first edition, 158 pages, four illustrations by Frank A. Utpatel, original black cloth with silver titles, 12mo (5.25" x 7.25"), with rare dust jacket variant on white paper with silver lettering on the front panel and spine matching that from the cloth binding, with no illustration. The second variant dust jacket with illustration is also included. The copy at hand has the lettering on the cover in upper and lower case letters, one of two known bindings with no priority established. According to publisher William H. Crawford, of the approximately 400 copies printed, about 200 copies were bound with the rest destroyed at a later date. Also according to the publisher, the printed dust jacket and errata slip were prepared after publication both of which are present with this copy. A few small areas of cloth slightly soiled, else a fine, bright copy with two crisp, bright dust jackets. This copy comes housed in an attractive black leather slipcase with gilt lettering on the banded-leather spine. A key title to any collection of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction. From the Ventura Collection.