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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales.: Selected and with an Introduction by August Derleth.
by LOVECRAFT, H. P
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House,, 1965. First edition, first printing, of the first hardback appearance of "Dagon". This title also includes Lovecraft's seminal essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature", first published in 1927, and an introduction by August Derleth, co-founder of Arkham House. Arkham House, named after Lovecraft's fictional New England city, was founded two years after the author's death in 1937 to produce hardback editions of Lovecraft's fiction, which had first appeared in pulp magazines. The publishers have since gone on to become specialists in the "weird fiction" subgenre. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, grey endpapers. With dust jacket. Occasional rubbing to extremities of bright jacket, couple of smudges to front fold, light marks to rear panel: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.
Synopsis
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales is a collection of stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1965 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,471 copies. The collection was revised in 1986 by S.T. Joshi replacing the introduction by August Derleth for one by Joshi and another by T. E. D. Klein. The bulk of the tales were also reordered chronologically, while some tales were moved to appendices. It was released in an edition of 4,023 copies.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162928
- Title
- Dagon and Other Macabre Tales.
- Author
- LOVECRAFT, H. P
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House,
- Date Published
- 1965
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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