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LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips (1890-1937). A group of 7 titles, including:
Marginalia. 1944. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Bleiler 1042; Jaffery 8. -- Something About Cats and Other Pieces. 1949. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Bleiler 1047; Jaffery 38; Joshi I–A–25a. -- Dunwich Horror and Others. 1963. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Jaffery 69; Joshi I–A–37a. -- Dreams and Fancies. 1963. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Jaffery 64. -- Collected Poems. 1963. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Jaffery 70. -- 3 Tales of Horror. 1967. Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Laid in with a Donald Wandrei bookplate, author and co-founder of Arkham House. Jaffery 99.-- Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by S.T. Joshi. 1995. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, both 8vo, both published by Arkham House in Sauk City, Wisconsin, both in original bindings and dust jackets, condition 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.