[Selected Sonnets in the Fungi from Yuggoth cycle]. [Cover title:] Poems / Lovecraft

by Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]

$10,000 · Offered by Biblio

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[N.p., Providence and North Montpelier, Vermont, 1933. 11 sonnets: five printed poems (two in proof) and six typescript leaves, signed in type ("H. P. Lovecraft" or "Howard P. Lovecraft", the second without such signature). 1 vols. 4to and smaller. Stapled in pink wrapper titled in black ink. A few chips and soilmarks, but fine. 11 sonnets: five printed poems (two in proof) and six typescript leaves, signed in type ("H. P. Lovecraft" or "Howard P. Lovecraft", the second without such signature). 1 vols. 4to and smaller. A nice private compilation of poems by H. P. Lovecraft, eleven sonnets in the Fungi from Yuggoth cycle, including his celebrated "Evening Star", "The Port", and "Antarktos". The eleven poems are stapled in a pink wrapper with manuscript title in black ink "Poems / Lovecraft / See also poem 'Revelation' in correspondence sheets," and signed Walter J. Coates, publisher of Driftwind, in which many Lovecraft works were printed. Comprising: 1) a leaf of Driftwind Press letterhead with three newsprint clippings mounted ("The Well," "Night-Gaunts," and "The Dweller," all published in The Providence Journal in the spring of 1930. 2) "The Port," typescript (ribbon), "Ten miles from Arkham I had struck the trail...", first published in Driftwind, Nov. 1930. 3) "XV. ANTARKTOS," typescript (ribbon), first published in Weird Tales, Nov. 1930. 4) "The Canal" and "The Gardens of Yin," proofs, headed Driftwind, p. 34, on the verso of a half sheet of Driftwind letterhead, inscr

• Year: 1933
• Printing: later
• Binding: unknown

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