The Curse of Yig
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1953. Jacket art by Ronald Clyne. First edition. Hardcover with unclipped jacket, ($3.00). Black boards with gold titles on the spine. Dove gray endpapers. Octavo. Collects three stories, The Curse of Yig; Medusa's Coil; The Mound, all largely revised by H. P. Lovecraft, and profiles of Lovecraft and August Derleth."Includes photos of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, and a reproduction of Virgil Finlay's Lovecraft drawing from the rear panel of the dust jacket of the Selected Letters series." Neilson, Arkham House Books, A Collector's Guide 49. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-24; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 171; Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-20. Very good. Some glue staining coming through inside the front and back cover and a book mark may have been neatly removed from inside the front cover. / Very good. Jacket is very bright with light soiling to the back cover. Small chips to top and bottom of spine. Item #542
Price: $250.00