Still more items from that Heritage lot. Three 8 1/2″ x 11″ items that are all related to H.P. Lovecraft: one Lovecraftian art portfolio (plus an additional critical chapbook), one prose portfolio, and one fiction chapbook, the latter two from members of the extended Lovecraft circle.
Day, Gene. Richard Upton Pickman: A Portfolio with Dirk W. Mosig’s H. P. Lovecraft: Psychological Realist. Stellar Z. Publications, 1977. First edition chapbook originals (for each), a Near Fine+ copy of the portfolio, with slight bending at the corners, and a Fine copy of the smaller Mosig critical chapbook. 10 art prints based on Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model,” plus a chapbook from a psychologist who has done a lot of essays on Lovecraft. There’s not a lot of Internet hits on either of these, and the few hits on the portfolio don’t appear to have the Mosig chapbook. I’m not sure what the print run on this was. I even reached out to Mosig himself (who’s still alive and teaching at a university) to ask the print run, but he didn’t know.
(Though the seem the same size (the blog image default size), the Mosig chapbook is a much smaller trim size, which makes sense given it probably shipped inside the portfolio.)
Eddy, C.M. and Muriel E. Erased from Exile. Stygian Isle Press, 1976. First edition chapbook original, #234 of 300 copies signed (on stickers) by Muriel E. Eddy and illustrator Gene Day, a Near Fine+ copy with slightly bumped corners and two small black lines near top front outer corner. Stories and poetry by two members of Lovecraft’s circle, with illustrations by Day. Day, who did a lot of work for underground comics and role-playing games, died at the very untimely age of 31.
Searight, Richard F. The Sealed Casket. The Strange Company, 1975. First edition prose portfolio (wrappers containing loose pages for the story), one of 100 copies, a Fine- copy with a touch of bumping or creasing at the points. Short story from another Lovecraft circle writer, and Hippocampus Press published a volume of their correspondence (combined with Lovecraft correspondence with E. Hoffman Price), one copy of which I have available for sale through Lame Excuse Books.
I tend to pick up obscure Lovecraftian chapbooks when I see them and they’re cheap, and as I noted before, there are few cheaper price points than “you’ve already bought it.”
