Athol, Mass. Published by Paul Cook The Recluse Press, 1928.
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Hardcover. First edition. Preface by Frank Belknap Long. Black cloth. Spine lettering largely rubbed away as usual, a trifle foxed on the front endpapers, else about fine, issued without dustwrapper. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. Currey's Issue C 2 (sheets bound by Arkham House with cancel copyright notice). Lovecraft's first book, one of 100 copies bound up by Arkham House in 1961 from unbound sheets (a few sets of sheets had been bound up in 1936 and circulated only among a few of Lovecraft's friends). From the collection of John K. Martin, with his simple, tiny book label on the rear pastedown. John K. Martin founded the Black Sparrow Press and is perhaps best known for providing Charles Bukowski a guaranteed stipend that allowed Bukowski to leave his post office job in order to write. Martin's private collections are renowned for the superior condition of their material.
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