Item #E20160 The Shadow over Innsmouth. H P. Lovecraft.

The Shadow over Innsmouth

West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1977. Second edition. Softcover. Perfect bound in illustrated stiff wrappers. 122 pp. Cover, frontis and one interior illustration by Jason Eckhart. Near fine, frsh example with some slight vfade to the upper inch or so of the front wrap. With introduction, notes on the text, a discarded draft of the piece and publication history. Lovecraft wrote "The Shadow over Innsmouth" in late 1931 and told some his correspondents that he would not submit it anywhere for publication. At the urging of August Derleth, in 1933 he submitted it to "Weird Magazine" but despite the fact that the editor found it fasciating, it was rejected. It was eventually published as a small book in an edition of only 400 copies in 1936 and an abridged version appeared in "Weird" in 1942. Near Fine. Item #E20160
ISBN: 0940884666

Price: $30.00

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