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[LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips (1890–1937), editor]. –– HOAG, Jonathan E. The Poetical Works of… New York: [privately printed], 1923.
8vo. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Hoag. Original gilt–lettered blue cloth (spine a touch sunned).
FIRST EDITION (“Author’s Edition”), PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HOAG to Fred and Mary Taylor. “While editing Hoag's Poetical Works, Lovecraft, along with Samuel Loveman and James F. Morton, revised some of Hoag's poetry. The book, privately printed at Hoag's expense in 1923, constituted THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF A WORK BY LOVECRAFT IN HARDCOVER,” who contributed the preface and six poems (Currey catalogue note). Joshi I–D–i–2.