Autograph Postcard to E. Hoffmann Price with Mentions of Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and Weird Tales Magazine

by Lovecraft, H[oward]. P[hillips]. (1890-1937)

$5,750 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

Milwaukee: E. C. Kropp Co, 1933. Single card. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2. Very good, with mild age toning and a few minor creases. Housed in a custom tri-fold sleeve with printed title on front.. Color photograph of Napoleon Bonaparte House, New Orleans, to front. A wonderful handwritten postcard from H. P. Lovecraft to E. Hoffmann Price, in which Lovecraft mentions Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, various works by all four writers, their primary outlet at the time--Weird Tales Magazine--its editor, Farnsworth Wright, and much more. The card is postmarked from Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, RI on June 9, 1933. Here is the transcript of Lovecraft's handwriting on both sides of the card: _____________ [back of card, main message area]: "Keep me posted on your programme. Around July 1st & afterward I may be in N.Y. City attending a convention, but I guess we can make the chronology & geography come out all right with a little care. Congratulations on your current work! By the way-why bother about copying The Silver Key? The carbon is all corrected & it would be easy to switch it to Wright from its present rounds. He knows us well enough not to insist on ceremony. No-I haven't heard anything about payments delayed by the bank holiday . . . . tho' nearly everyone complains of delay of some sort. Just had a circular from the Am. Fiction Guild (to which I do not belong) with considerable data about the recent Clayton difficulties. ¶ Glad your toil is reasonably punctuated by diversion

• Publisher: E. C. Kropp Co
• Year: 1933
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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