First Edition: 175 pages, woodcut printer's device on the title page, original black cloth titled gilt along the spine, staining on the endpapers from moisture in the boards at the time of printing, a very good copy in the dust jacket - the jacket is printed on thick stock paper and spirit varnished, designed Ronald Clyne, with the price $3.00 at the top of the front flap.
The colophon on the final unnumbered page reads, 'Twelve hundred copies of this book have been printed by The Collegiate Press, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, from Linotype Garamond on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex.'
The bibliography records 1217 copies as the total edition the extra copies being explained as printer's overruns.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Yig_(book), 'The Curse of Yig is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories and essays by American writer Zealia Bishop. It was issued in 1953 and was the author's only collection published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 1,217 copies. The three stories had originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales and were co-written by H. P. Lovecraft. The stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (193 mm x 138 mm)
