{"id":13498,"date":"2015-02-04T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13498"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T23:02:41","slug":"library-addition-h-p-lovecraft-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13498","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: H.P. Lovecraft: A Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found a copy of the definitive one-volume H. P. Lovecraft biography I could afford. <\/p>\n<p>(Lovecraft, H.P.) Joshi, S. T. <b>H. P. Lovecraft: A Life<\/b>. Necronomicon Press, 1996. First edition, one of only 250 signed hardbacks (the only hardback edition), a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a very tiny wrinkle at head. Widely considered to be the definitive Lovecraft biography until Joshi&#8217;s two volume expansion <b>I Am Providence<\/b> (which I also have) came out in 2010. The hardback of <b>H. P. Lovecraft: A Life<\/b> peaked around $500, but has since drifted down a bit. I bought this one from the publisher off eBay for $160. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lovecraft-A-Life.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lovecraft-A-Life-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Lovecraft A Life\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lovecraft-A-Life-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lovecraft-A-Life-686x1024.jpeg 686w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lovecraft-A-Life.jpeg 1869w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found a copy of the definitive one-volume H. P. Lovecraft biography I could afford. (Lovecraft, H.P.) Joshi, S. T. H. P. Lovecraft: A Life. Necronomicon Press, 1996. First edition, one of only 250 signed hardbacks (the only hardback edition), a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a very tiny wrinkle at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[1708,1973,97,693,1979,1064,1070],"class_list":["post-13498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","tag-biography","tag-books","tag-first-edition","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-horror","tag-reference-works","tag-s-t-joshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13521,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions\/13521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}