{"id":25325,"date":"2025-08-21T10:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25325"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:39:47","slug":"library-additions-three-hippocampus-weird-tales-writers-reference-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25325","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Three Hippocampus Weird Tales Writers Reference Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three more books from that Facebook seller:<\/p>\n<li>(Howard, Robert E.) Derie, Bobby. <b>Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Other<\/b>. Hippocampus Press, 2019. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Bought for $5.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Derie-Weird-Talers-689x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"669\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Derie-Weird-Talers-689x1024.png 689w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Derie-Weird-Talers-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Derie-Weird-Talers-768x1142.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Derie-Weird-Talers-1033x1536.png 1033w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Derie-Weird-Talers.png 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>(Lovecraft, H.P.) Mariconda, Steven J. <b>H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality<\/b>. Hippocampus Press, 2013. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Near Fine+ copy with a trace of light staining to page block edges and few light spots of staining to first few pages, and a trace of wear at points. Bought for $10.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mariconda-Lovecraft-Art-689x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"669\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mariconda-Lovecraft-Art-689x1024.png 689w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mariconda-Lovecraft-Art-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mariconda-Lovecraft-Art-768x1141.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mariconda-Lovecraft-Art-1034x1536.png 1034w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mariconda-Lovecraft-Art.png 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Smith, Clark Ashton, and George Sterling (David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, editors). <b>The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith<\/b>. Hippocampus Press, 2019. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Sterling was the California poet who mentored and championed the work of the young Clark Ashton Smith. Bought for $10.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CA-Smith-Sterling-Shadow-Unattained-674x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CA-Smith-Sterling-Shadow-Unattained-674x1024.png 674w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CA-Smith-Sterling-Shadow-Unattained-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CA-Smith-Sterling-Shadow-Unattained-768x1166.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CA-Smith-Sterling-Shadow-Unattained-1011x1536.png 1011w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CA-Smith-Sterling-Shadow-Unattained.png 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty good at picking up the Hippocampus Press hardbacks before the sell out, but I don&#8217;t pick up every trade paperback on publication (and when I do pick them up, they tend to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/PB.html\">hang around<\/a> in Lame Excuse Books stock). These were all at good prices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three more books from that Facebook seller: (Howard, Robert E.) Derie, Bobby. Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Other. Hippocampus Press, 2019. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Bought for $5. (Lovecraft, H.P.) Mariconda, Steven J. H. P. Lovecraft: [&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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56],"tags":[1973,533,1405,1983,2771,693,1406,1979,1273,44,1070,499,1559],"class_list":["post-25325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","tag-books","tag-clark-ashton-smith","tag-david-e-schultz","tag-fantasy","tag-george-sterling","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-hippocampus-press","tag-horror","tag-print-on-demand","tag-robert-e-howard","tag-s-t-joshi","tag-small-press-publishers","tag-weird-tales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325","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=25325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25398,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325\/revisions\/25398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}