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LOVECRAFT (H.P.)
The Shunned House... with a Preface by Frank Belknap Long, Jr., FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 300 COPIES], Athol, Mass., Published by W. Paul Cook, The Recluse Press, 1928

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LOVECRAFT (H.P.)

The Shunned House... with a Preface by Frank Belknap Long, Jr., FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 300 COPIES], eight unbound gatherings (the first seven gatherings with 8 pages each, the final gathering with 4), printed on paper watermarked 'Canterbury Laid', with the cancel copyright notice inside the upper cover, some toning, plain printed wrappers, preserved in chemise and slipcase lettered in gilt on upper cover, 8vo, Athol, Mass., Published by W. Paul Cook, The Recluse Press, 1928

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FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. This copy is one of approximately 50 unbound copies distributed by Arkham House in about 1959. The cancel copyright notice, pasted over the the original copyright notice on the verso of the title-page, lists copyrights for 1936, 1937, 1939, and 1947, and is the first state of the notice with the book and magazine titles set in bold face (later copies being in italic). "Cook had wanted to publish SH in the first issue of The Recluse, but, perhaps because of space limitations, did not do so, and thus decided to print the story as a small book ... Cook printed approximately 300 copies in mid-1928 but bound none. In 1934 [R. H.] Barlow [Lovecraft's literary executor] received about 225 copies of the unbound sheets. It is rumored that he bound only eight copies... Barlow apparently distributed only about 50, having found some unusable ... Arkham House, when obtaining the remainder of the unbound sheets, bound or distributed 150 as follows: 50 unbound copies bear a printed label pasted over the original copyright notice [as this copy]; 100 are bound in black cloth bearing the printed copyright notice ... The former were distributed ca. 1959; the later ca. 1961" (S.T. Joshi, I-A-5).

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