THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM AND OTHER REVISIONS
by LOVECRAFT, H. P., et al
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1970. First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. ix, 383 pp. Fine copy, in fine dust jacket by Gahan Wilson.
First edition, first impression. "A collection of what was at that time believed to be all the known "revisions" by Lovecraft of weird tales for a variety of professional clients, taken largely from previous Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft miscellany." -- Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, p. 96. Contributors include August Derleth, Elizabeth Berkeley, Sonia Greene, and many others. The one unrevised, original contribution is the story by Wilfred Blanch Talman, "Two Black Bottles," first published in Weird Tales for August 1927. BLEILER 1054;
JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 109.
First edition, first impression. "A collection of what was at that time believed to be all the known "revisions" by Lovecraft of weird tales for a variety of professional clients, taken largely from previous Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft miscellany." -- Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, p. 96. Contributors include August Derleth, Elizabeth Berkeley, Sonia Greene, and many others. The one unrevised, original contribution is the story by Wilfred Blanch Talman, "Two Black Bottles," first published in Weird Tales for August 1927. BLEILER 1054;
JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 109.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 525
- Title
- THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM AND OTHER REVISIONS
- Author
- LOVECRAFT, H. P., et al
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Occult, horror, Cthulhu mythos,
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