Another George Wetzel Item

LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY, AMATEUR JOURNALIST: 1955

Details

North Tonawanda, New York: SSR Publications, 1952-1955, 1955. Large octavo, seven volumes, mimeographed from typewritten copy, printed wrappers, stapled. First edition. Limited to 75 numbered sets, this being copy number 56. Joshi I-A-28-a, III-B-35, and II-C-27. A legendary -- and very fragile -- production, with covers and text paper on very poor pulp-like paper stock. As is usually the case, the text paper is darkened and covers are tanned, but this is a remarkable, nearly fine issue. Individual issues are hard to come by, are rare, especially in this condition.
From Joshi
Volume V:
THE AMATEUR JOURNALIST / HOWARD
PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT / VOLUME FIVE / THE
LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY / EDITED
BY GEORGE WETZEL / [Yule] / SSR / 1955
Perfect-bound: [a-b] [i] ii-iii [4] 5-17 [18] 19-21 [22] 23-33
IB4-36] .
[a]: half—title and copy number; lb]: blank; [i]: title; ii:
acknowledgments; iii: contents list; [4]: blank; 5-6: "The Simple
Spelling Mania"; 7-10: “President's ‘Message” (from The National
Amateur, ]July 1923); 11-12: "Amateur Criticism"; 13-14: “The
Symphonic Ideal"; 15-17: ”The Professional Incubus"; [18]:
blank; 19-20: "A Reply to The Liagerer"; 21: “Concerning Persia--in Europe”; [22]: blank; 23-24: "Les Mouches Fantastiques"; 25—33: “Looking Backward" (abridged); [34-36]: