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Auction #131 begins on 21 May 2026

Lovecraft (H.P.) and Derleth (August)

THE SURVIVOR AND OTHERS

Published: Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $100

Approximately:

Estimate: $125/150

Bidding opens: 21 May 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 28 May 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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First edition: (viii), 161, (i colophon) pages, woodcut printer's device on the title page, original black cloth titled gilt along the spine, light foxing on the top edge and offsetting on the endpapers, contents bright, a very good copy in the dust jacket designed by Ronald Clyne - the jacket is printed on thick stock paper and spirit varnished, it is sunned to light brown on the spine and it is not price clipped with the price $3.00.

Editor's note on the dust jacket: 'These are tales of terrifying witchcraft, of cosmic horror, of quaint magic, such as only H. P. Lovecraft could have conceived. Here in these pages Great Cthulhu walks again, the Dunwich-Arkham country lives once more, and, in a final allegory, Lovecraft himself is portrayed in a quasi-autobiographical manner. August Derleth's completion of these stories was a labor of love. Perhaps no other contemporary writer has so closely emulated the Lovecraft style as he - as these stories testify.'

The colophon on the final unnumbered page reads, 'Two thousand copies of this book have been printed by The Collegiate Press, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, from Linotype Caledonia Garamond on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex,'

The bibliography records 2096 copies as the total edition the 96 copy difference being explained as printer's overruns.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (191 x 131 mm)


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