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H.P. Lovecraft. The Shadow Over Innsmouth....
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H.P. Lovecraft. The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936.Small 8vo. Illustrations by Frank A. Utpatel. Publisher's black cloth stamped in silver; original illustrated dust jacket lettered in silver.
FIRST EDITION OF LOVECRAFT'S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK. With the errata leaf laid in. In the uncommon dust jacket variant of white paper lettered in silver, without the frontispiece illustration repeated on the front panel; this variant unrecorded by Currey. Also with a small ad, printed on orange paper and laid in, announcing Visionary Publishing Company's publication of The Titan, written by P. Schuyler Miller. The ad bears a postmark dated 12 December 1939 and includes an advertisement for a first edition of The Shadow Over Innsmouth and notes "only four hundred copies have been printed and most are already distributed." The Titan, advertised as "in the process of publication," was never published by Visionary; the first appearance in book form would not be until Fantasy Press published the title in 1952.
According to the publisher, 400 copies of the book were printed, though only about 200 were bound and the remainder destroyed. Both Currey and Joshi note that the book was distributed without a dust jacket, which was later printed and sent to most who had previously purchased it. After the initial publication of the book, the errata slip (present here) was prepared and circulated.
Condition: Spine ends just pushed; text unusually bright; errata leaf with a touch of wrinkling. Dust jacket unclipped (no price listed as issued); small stains to rear flap fold; otherwise jacket is unusually bright.
References: Currey, p. 324 (this dust jacket variant not recorded); Joshi I-A-11.
Provenance: The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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