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William Hope Hodgson. The House on the Borderland....
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William Hope Hodgson. The House on the Borderland. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1908.8vo. 4 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, blind-stamped as such on the title page.
H.P. Lovecraft, master of the horror, supernatural, and weird fiction, considered this title, "perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works..." (Lovecraft, p. 82). Barron writes, "it definitely strikes what its admirer H.P. Lovecraft sought to define as 'the true note of cosmic horror'" (Horror Literature). Bleiler calls it, "one of the classics of supernatural fiction."
With the bookplate of Adrian Homer Goldstone (1897-1977), noted bibliophile and bibliographer, especially known for his bibliographies of Arthur Machen and John Steinbeck.
Condition: Spine sunned and spine ends pushed; minor edgewear and a few bumps; minor abrasion to front free endpaper.
References: Barron, Fantasy and Horror, 4-70; Barron, Horror Literature, 3-92; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 815; Currey, p. 243; Locke I, p. 114; Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, pp. 82-83; Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, p. 225.
Provenance: Adrian Homer Goldstone (bookplate); The Ventura Collection (Heritage Auctions, 17 April 2007, lot 26229); The Gary Munson Collection (Heritage Auctions, 8 June 2023, lot 45101).
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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