Marginalia
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1944. First Edition. Very Good / Very Good. Item #65
Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. 1944. pp. x., 377. $3.00. 2035 copies. The jacket design is a reproduction of Virgil Finlay's illustration for H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shunned House," from Weird Tales, October 1937.
Derleth first introduced Marginalia on the back of Clark Ashton Smith’s book Lost World published by Arkham House the same year. He writes that “this third book by the late H.P. Lovecraft is one of many surprises. Admittedly a "loose ends" book, it contains early prose by the master, certain ghost-written pieces, revisions, and essays, together with fragments. Here are The Thing in the Moonlight, Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, Medusa's Coil; here are appreciations of H.P.L. by Frank Belknap Long and others; there are photographs of Lovecraft, his study, his script, his drawings, making Marginalia an associational item you cannot afford to be without.
CONTENTS:
Foreword by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by Houdini
Medusa's Coil by Zealia Brown (Reed) Bishop
Winged Death by Hazel Heald
The Man of Stone by Hazel Heald
Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction
Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction
Lord Dunsany and His Work
Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms
Some Backgrounds of Fairyland
Some Causes of Self-Immolation
A Guide to Charleston by South Carolina
Observations on Several Parts of North America
The Beast in the Cave
The Transition of Juan Romero
Azathoth
The Book
The Descendant
The Very Old Folk
The Thing in the Moonlight
Two Comments
His Own Most Fantastic Creation by Winfield Townley Scott
Some Random Memories of H. P. L. by Frank Belknap Long
H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation by T. 0. Mabbott
The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H.P. Lovecraft in Florida by R.H. Barlow
Lovecraft and Science by Kenneth Sterling
Lovecraft as a Formative Influence by August Derleth
The Dweller in Darkness by Donald Wandrei
To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Clark Ashton Smith
H. P. L. by Henry Kuttner
Lost Dream by Emil Petaja
To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Francis Flagg
H.P. Lovecraft by Frank Belknap Long
Elegy: In Providence the Spring by August Derleth
For the Outsider: H.P. Lovecraft by Charles E. White
In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft by Richard Ely Morse with illustrations, photographs, and drawings by Lovecraft with a reproduction of Lament for H. P. L. by Alfred Galpin.
Price: $600.00