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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Outsider and Others. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1939. 8vo. With frontispiece portrait of Lovecraft. xiv, [1]-[555], [3, blank] pp. Publisher’s full black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s unclipped (“$5.00”) dust jacket (minor rubbing, thumbsoiling to binding, front board bumped at upper edge and corner, endleaves toned, and occasionally soiled, upper corner of text lightly bumped with faint creasing). Fine. FIRST EDITION OF ARKHAM HOUSE’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK; LEGENDARY ARTIST HANNES BOK’S (1914-1964) PERSONAL COPY WITH HIS PERSONALLY-DESIGNED BOOKPLATE ON FP AND PENCIL NOTES THROUGHOUT (in his notes on pp. vi and vii, Bok rates Lovecraft’s stories with his written guide to his ratings, and other incisive notes throughout). One of 1,200 copies printed by Arkham House, the first published collection of Lovecraft’s stories. Housed in a modern quarter dark blue morocco clamshell case. A rare modern horror book with an incredible association.