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LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips (1890–1937). The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Introduction by George T. Wetzel. Buffalo: Shroud, 1955.
8vo. Original printed orange wrappers reinforced with brown tape on spine as issued [Currey binding A]; original pictorial dust jacket on white paper stock printed in red and black (some light sunning to extremities, small stain to upper corner of front panel, tiny chip near head). Provenance: indecipherable signature (Robert A.?) dated 1956.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 1341 of 1500 copies, first collected in 1943 in Lovecraft’s Beyond the Wall of Sleep. This is the EARLIEST DISTRIBUTED COPY in the rare first state dust jacket (see Currey for priority). Currey, p. 322; Joshi I–A–31.