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LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips (1890-1937). The Outsider and Others. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1939.
8vo. Half–title. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; original unclipped dust jacket designed by Virgil Finlay (few very tiny spots of surface wear to rear panel and near joint, else fine). Provenance: Richard Manney (book label), one of the most famous book collectors of the 20th century who was known for the best examples on the market. A selection of his library was sold at Sotheby’s in 1991, amassing a total of over $3.9m which was the first multimillion–dollar library assembled in the 1980s to come up for auction.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED AT ARKHAM HOUSE IN A PRISTINE DUST JACKET. One of only 1,268 copies printed by the legendary publisher of weird fiction and horror. In “ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE DUST WRAPPERS IN THE MODERN FANTASY FIELD” (Jaffery). Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 1040; Currey, p. 324; Jaffery 1; Joshi I–A–15.