Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1965. Octavo. ix, 413 pp. First edition, first printing, one of 3,500 copies as stated in the colophon. Publisher's Holliston Black Novelex cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket unclipped with $6.50 price intact. Binding square and firm; black cloth clean and spine gilt bright, with only minor rubbing and extremity wear. Interior clean with mild age-toning; small previous owner's ink notation at upper corner of front free endpaper.
An important Arkham House collection bringing together the shorter and more macabre fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, supplemented by his influential critical essay Supernatural Horror in Literature. Published nearly three decades after Lovecraft's death, the volume formed part of Arkham House's foundational effort to preserve his fiction in permanent hardcover editions. M1.
. Near Fine. Item #1046
Price: $250.00