The Statement of Randolph Carter in The Vagrant. Number Thirteen, May 1920

by H. P. Lovecraft, W. Paul Cook

$5,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Athol, MA : W. Paul Cook, 1920. First edition. 56-73, 20-48 pp. Bound in publisher's slate blue side-stapled wraps lettered in black. Near Fine. A fantastic copy. This marks the first appearance of Lovecraft's most common recurring Dream Cycle character, Randolph Carter, featured on p. 41-48 in the short story The Statement of Randolph Carter. Loosely modeled after Lovecraft himself, Carter is a melancholic

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