Lovecraft, H. P. | First edition of Lovecraft's first published book

Lovecraft, H. P. 

The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936

8vo (172 x 127 mm). 4 illustrations by Frank A. Utpatel, with the errata slip laid in. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver; text block lightly shaken. Yellow-green pictorial dust jacket with silver lettering; flaps lightly but unobtrusively soiled, price clipped, a fine example.  

First edition of Lovecraft's first published book

Publisher William L. Crawford claimed 400 copies of the book were printed, 200 of them bound and the remainder later destroyed. The book was originally issued without a dust jacket. When the jacket was eventually printed, it was sent to most who had purchased it earlier.