Poems for Midnight
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1964.
Octavo. 68[1] pp. Publisher's original black cloth boards. Interior clean, square, and tightly bound. Faint pencil signature/erasure to the upper corner of the front free endpaper. Dust jacket unclipped, with some toning to the spine and edges, and minimal shelfwear at the head and foot of the spine panel.
First edition, one of 700 in the colophon. Co-founder of Arkham House and a central figure of the H. P. Lovecraft circle, Donald Wandrei assembled sixty-one of his finest macabre verses for this definitive collection, prominently featuring his influential cycle "Sonnets of the Midnight Hours," which directly inspired Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth. Featuring surrealist pen-and-ink illustrations by the author's brother Howard Wandrei. L5.
Price: $250.00