What are my options for a nice leather bound Lovecraft bundle?

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What are my options for a nice leather bound Lovecraft bundle?

1snottlebocket
May 2, 2022, 1:58 am

Hey all, sometimes I like to luxuriate with a nice leather-bound book, a good drink and a comfortable chair. I'm slowly replacing the books that I've read many times over the years with as nice an edition as I can find. Franklin library, old Folio Societies etc.

I've been looking for a nice leather-bound Lovecraft bundle but as far as I can tell, Franklin never made one. The Easton Press one is an option but having Lovecraft's entire body of work in one book does make it a bit hard to handle (I know, picky). I've seen the cheap Barnes and Noble version but I've heard mixed things about the quality and it's also a bulky complete work. Not to mention a little tacky looking.

Any options I'm missing?

2ScoLgo
May 2, 2022, 2:27 am

>1 snottlebocket: I suggest asking this question over at The Weird Tradition. They are a very knowledgeable bunch regarding this type of thing.

Likely not what you are looking for but I recently bought the 2016 Chartwell Books edition, (The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft). It is a paper-bound hardback with paper dust-jacket, (so not leather-bound). Despite the title, the book does not contain 'every' Lovecraft story - but it does have most of them, which makes it rather hefty at 1,112 pages and nearly four pounds, (1.75 Kg).

3Maddz
Edited: May 2, 2022, 2:52 am

Gollancz did a couple of Lovecraft editions in their collector's editions:

https://www.librarything.com/work/5113500

and

https://www.librarything.com/work/10955528

These may be what you're after. They're both coming up in an Amazon.co.uk search.

4Volt875
May 2, 2022, 10:37 am

>3 Maddz: They’re in Amazon US too. I had a copy of the first one a while back and was going to suggest it.

5snottlebocket
May 3, 2022, 2:01 am

Thank you for all of your suggestions.

6humouress
May 23, 2022, 10:59 pm

Not leather bound and I don’t remember if they have a Lovecraft edition but Flametree Publishing do some beautiful looking books.