CONVERSATIONS WITH THE WEIRD TALES CIRCLE Lovecraft many masters First Ed! New!

Description: First Ed! New CONVERSATIONS WITH THE WEIRD TALES CIRCLE Lovecraft many masters! FREE INSURANCE Better than fine--pristine. Only removed from original shipping box to photograph for this listing. Marker ribbon never taken out of its original placement. Spine never cracked--never fully opened, tight as originally manufactured, no cracking of glue or anyting in binding, etc. Tight pages, all clean, good as it gets. Just a beauty of a book, and the absolute top of modern book-making craft. This copy is unsigned...it was presented to one of the contributors, who asked me for help in selling. He wrote the piece of appreciation on writers Donald Wandrei and Carl Jacobi. Centipede Press, first edition, August, 2009. Limited to 200 copies. No dustjacket, as issued. Like many Centipede Press books, it's big: 8" X 12" X 3"; weight six pounds. Publisher's description: Conversations with the Weird Tales Circle is a massive, oversize, celebration of the lives of H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Seabury Quinn, E. Hoffmann Price, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Lee Brown Coye, Hannes Bok, August Derleth, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and many others. Each writer has their own section in the book, complete with a custom drawing of the author by noted artist Alex McVey. The sections contain letters and essays by the writers, with many interviews and memoirs about the writers, often by other writers from the Circle. With dozens of color and black & white photographs, and many of the articles never before reprinted (several coming from 1930s and 1940s fanzines that are now very difficult to find), this is an important and illuminating look at a group of people that defined an era. There is also a lengthy article on Weird Tales cover art with full-color reprints on nearly fifty Weird Tales covers, many of them printed at full page size. Essential for every fantasy and horror fan. The book is a large sewn hardcover measuring 7 × 12 inches, over two inches thick, with 754 pages, with an image by Stephen Hickman printed on the front cover cloth, and black cloth on the spines and back. The book is rounded, with head and tail bands, and a ribbon marker, with black endsheets. Limited to 200 copies.Original portraits of all major authors by Alex McVey.Loaded with color and black & white illustrations.Color reproductions of many Weird Tales covers.Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, printed cloth panel, three-piece cloth construction. NOTES ON BOOKS: That contributor is a longtime friend who's gotten to the same place I have re the books that we've edited, read, collected, written...over the past half century. We're scaling down, way down. Watch for many, many desirable books to be listed here in the next few weeks or months. There are many fine volumes coming up, and some absolute treasures to be found, too, especially in the horror/fantasy field. Thanks. I am paying FULL INSURANCE COST on the FINAL VALUE PRICE--book and shipping. INSURANCE IS INCLUDED. Important: the book you see featured in this listing is THE EXACT SAME BOOK you will receive if you are the winner of this auction. Thank you for looking.

Price: 1599 USD

Location: Sewickley, Pennsylvania

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