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Title: A Posthumous Collection of rare and important Lovecraft books, catalogues and paper items, primarily from the Library of W. Easton Louttit, noted collector and Brown University archivist Author: Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] (1890-1937) Place: Sauk City, WI; New York, et al. Publisher: Date: 1939-1999 Description: Comprises: Arkham House publications (nearly all with W.E. Louttit’s bookplate), 14 volumes & contains: The Outsider and Others. Jacket (art by Virgil Finlay). First printing. 1939. The first book published by Arkham House, with only 1268 copies printed. A landmark in the history of weird fiction and of American publishing. Assembled by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. This was the first of three projected volumes of Lovecraft’s works, this title was designed to include his best stories along with his monograph ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’ (1927), which appears here for the first time in its’ fully revised state” – Joshi, Sixty Years, p.22. [Joshi I-A-15]; Bleiler 1040. * Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Jacket (art by Burt Trimpey). First printing. 1943. Assembled by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Only 1217 copies printed. “The second Lovecraft omnibus, containing his remaining fiction, an array of his ‘revisions’…and an extensive selection of his poetry…[and] two previously unpublished short novels, The Case of Charles Dexter War and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, of whose whereabouts…[were] not known when compiling The Outsider” – Joshi, Sixty Years, p.25. [Joshi I-A-17]; Bleiler 1041. Offsetting to rear endpaper due to related newspaper clipping (which is included in this collection – kept outside of book). * Marginalia. Jacket (art by Virgil Finlay). First printing. 1944. Only 2035 copies printed. “Contains a number of important articles and memoirs about Lovecraft…the best are perhaps those by Scott (the first biographical essay on Lovecraft), Mabbott (the leading Poe scholar of his generation), and Barlow” – Joshi, Sixty Years, p.29-30. [Joshi I-A-19]; Bleiler 1042. * The Lurker at the Threshold by Lovecraft & Derleth. Jacket (art by Ronald Clyne). First printing. 1945. Only 3041 copies printed. The first of sixteen “posthumous collaborations” between Derleth and Lovecraft, in which Derleth wrote tales around fragments and plot-germs found among Lovecraft’s papers. [Joshi I-C-33]. No bookplate. * Something About Cats and Other Pieces. Jacket (art by Ronald Clyne). First printing. 1949. Only 2995 copies printed. “A rich selection of works…and memoirs of him fill this volume…clearly the most important is that by [his] ex-wife Sonia H. Davis; the text was revised…by…Scott for its first appearance (August 1948)…and further revised here by Derleth” – Joshi, Sixty Years, p.54-55. [Joshi I-A-25-a]. * The Survivor and Others by Lovecraft & Derleth. Jacket (art by Ronald Clyne). First printing. 1957. Only 2096 copies printed. Seven “posthumous collaborations.” [Joshi I-E-i-22 & I-A-46]. * The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces. Jacket (art by Richard Taylor . First printing. 1959. Only 2527 copies printed. “The third Lovecraft miscellany volume…containing an abundance of interesting matter” – Joshi, Sixty Years, p.67. [Joshi I-A-32]. * Dreams and Fancies. Jacket (art by Richard Taylor . First printing. 1962. Only 2030 copies printed. “A selection of Lovecraft’s letters describing his vivid dreams” – Joshi, Sixty Years, p.75-6. [Joshi I-A-33]. * The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces. Jacket (art by Frank Utpatel). First printing. 1966. Only 3460 copies printed. “Another interesting collection of Lovecraft miscellany” – Joshi, Sixty Years, p.95. [Joshi I-A-43]. * The Arkham Sampler. Wrappers. 4 issues. Vol. I, Nos. 1-4. Entire 1948 year. 100 pages each. Each 1 of 1200 copies printed. “A fine mixture of tales, articles, poems, and reviews. Derleth’s decision to serialize Lovecraft’s Dream-Quest over the first four issues of the Sampler was presumably a means of keeping the short novel i