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Library Addition: The Gentleman from Angell Street hardback (Lovecraft)

Monday, October 13th, 2025

Here’s a Kickstarter I backed all the way back in March of 2024 that finally came in.

(Lovecraft, H.P.) Eddy, Muriel E. & C.M. The Gentleman from Angell Street. Helios House Press, 2025. Third edition, first hardback and first thus, a greatly expanded version of the Fenham Publishing trade paperback of 2001 (which I also have), a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Biographical memoir of Lovecraft by two of his neighbors, now filled out with information gleaned from unearthed correspondence. Backed on Kickstarter for $65.

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Library Additions: Three Lovecraft-Related Chapbooks

Friday, July 21st, 2023

Still more items from that Heritage lot. Three 8 1/2″ x 11″ items that are all related to H.P. Lovecraft: one Lovecraftian art portfolio (plus an additional critical chapbook), one prose portfolio, and one fiction chapbook, the latter two from members of the extended Lovecraft circle.

  • Day, Gene. Richard Upton Pickman: A Portfolio with Dirk W. Mosig’s H. P. Lovecraft: Psychological Realist. Stellar Z. Publications, 1977. First edition chapbook originals (for each), a Near Fine+ copy of the portfolio, with slight bending at the corners, and a Fine copy of the smaller Mosig critical chapbook. 10 art prints based on Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model,” plus a chapbook from a psychologist who has done a lot of essays on Lovecraft. There’s not a lot of Internet hits on either of these, and the few hits on the portfolio don’t appear to have the Mosig chapbook. I’m not sure what the print run on this was. I even reached out to Mosig himself (who’s still alive and teaching at a university) to ask the print run, but he didn’t know.

    (Though the seem the same size (the blog image default size), the Mosig chapbook is a much smaller trim size, which makes sense given it probably shipped inside the portfolio.)

  • Eddy, C.M. and Muriel E. Erased from Exile. Stygian Isle Press, 1976. First edition chapbook original, #234 of 300 copies signed (on stickers) by Muriel E. Eddy and illustrator Gene Day, a Near Fine+ copy with slightly bumped corners and two small black lines near top front outer corner. Stories and poetry by two members of Lovecraft’s circle, with illustrations by Day. Day, who did a lot of work for underground comics and role-playing games, died at the very untimely age of 31.

  • Searight, Richard F. The Sealed Casket. The Strange Company, 1975. First edition prose portfolio (wrappers containing loose pages for the story), one of 100 copies, a Fine- copy with a touch of bumping or creasing at the points. Short story from another Lovecraft circle writer, and Hippocampus Press published a volume of their correspondence (combined with Lovecraft correspondence with E. Hoffman Price), one copy of which I have available for sale through Lame Excuse Books.

    • I tend to pick up obscure Lovecraftian chapbooks when I see them and they’re cheap, and as I noted before, there are few cheaper price points than “you’ve already bought it.”

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    Library Additions: Non-Fiction Books from Cold Tonnage’s £5 Sale

    Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

    A follow-up to yesterday’s post, here are the non-fiction books I bought in that Cold Tonnage £5 sale:

  • Adams, Douglas and John Lloyd. The Deeper Meaning of Liff. Pan Books, 1990. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
  • Carr, Terry. Fandom Harvest. Laissez Faire Productions AB, 1986. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. According to Chalker/Owings (1991), page 538, only 250 hardbacks were done.
  • (Hitchcock, Alfred) Paul Condon and Jim Sangster. The Complete Hitchcock. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy.
  • (Lovecraft, H.P.) Eddy, Muriel, and C.M. Eddy, Jr. The Gentlemen from Angell Street: Memories of H. P. Lovecraft. Fenham Publishing, 2001. First edition trade paperback original thus, containing additional material not in the 1961 edition, a Fine copy.
  • Tymn, Marshall B. American Fantasy and Science Fiction: Toward a Bibliography of Works Published in the United States, 1949—1973. Fax Collector’s Editions, 1979. Paperback original, a Very Good+ copy with spine creasing and wear along the spine. Though Tymn authored or co-authored a number of important reference works, this, an attempt to update Bleiler’s Checklist with modern works, limited only to those published in hardback, is generally not numbered among them, as it was largely superseded by Currey and Reginald the same year of publication. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 178, are not kind: “Alas, it’s useless, one of the most worthless pieces of bibliography in the past 20 years or so.” There was a hardback, but Chalker/Ownings says it was just attaching a premade casing to the paperback. Not in Keith L. Justice’s Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Reference.
  • Wake, Paul, Steve Andrews and Ariel (yes, just “Ariel,” no last name; I can only assume it’s edited by the mermaid from that Disney movie). Waterstone’s Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Waterstone Guides, 1998. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. There are some good contributors in here (like John Clute), but the author entries are distributed somewhat randomly. Waterstone’s is a UK bookstore chain, and I imagine these are pretty common on the other side of the pond. Here? Not so much.

    Hipster Ariel

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