TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in the Jeffrey K. Potter illustrated dustwrapper. With full page, black and white illustrations by Jeffrey K. Potter throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of rubbing to the spine and very light bumping to the extremities on the lower board. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original pictorial dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, lightly creased to the folds and very lightly rubbed to the top edge. Not price-clipped ($23.95 to the upper front flap).

The publisher's 'Golden Anniversary Anthology' edition and the revised edition of 'Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos' by H. P. Lovecraft '& divers hands'. Considered the first Cthulhu Mythos anthology, 'Tales of' was originally published by Arkham House in 1969 and was edited by August Derleth, who contributed two stories here. This later edition replaces short stories by original contributors and Lovecraft correspondents J. Vernon Shea and James Wade, and replaces Brian Lumley's original contributions, with 'The Terror from the Depths' by Fritz Leiber, 'Rising with Surtsey' by Brian Lumley, 'My Boat' by Joanna Russ, 'Sticks' by Karl Edward Wagner, 'The Freshman' by Philip José Farmer, 'Jerusalem's Lot' by Stephen King, and 'Discovery of the Ghooric Zone' by Richard A. Lupoff. The term "Cthulhu Mythos" was invented by correspondent and friend of Lovecraft, August Derleth, and describes the fictional universe depicted in Lovecraftian short stories.