TRIALS & remnants
It took a month to tidy, sort & organize all the remnants of this project. Having done so, there are a few artifacts that might be of interest to anyone who was unable to acquire a copy of the book. Please write if interested in any item listed below. Prices exclude shipping. While the Canada Post strike has ended, it will take a few weeks for the backlog to be cleared out. Orders will be invoiced and shipped in early 2025.
1. Broadside w/ aquatint
Edition of 13 copies (shown at top of this page), signed and numbered by Briony Morrow-Cribbs, featuring the jawbone aquatints included at the start of HM’s The Dunwich Horror. Printed on Arches 120 g wove paper (10 x 13 inches), this is the first time HM and Briony have combined our printing on the same sheet. Would be mailed flat in stiff packing, and include a copy of the poster showing some of the ornamental tailpieces created as chapter endings for The Dunwich Horror. US$150
2. A History of Necronomicon – overprints
Fifteen copies of A History of the Necronomicon, which was included as an appendix in The Dunwich Horror, have been sewn into Barcham Green handmade paper wrap (approx 250 g). These include a facsimile of a page from the 17th century Latin edition. [5] p. + cover. US$75
Copies 1 – 3 (shown above) are issued in a slipcase, accompanied by a portfolio containing a set of the eight aquatints created for the book, printed on Arches rag paper; a copy of the book’s title page; the prospectus; a copy of the thorn etching used to cover the boards in the edition; & a broadside showing some of the ornamental tailpieces created for the book. US$250
Copies 4 & 5 (above) are issued in a slipcase, accompanied by a portfolio containing first state proofs (etchings) of the eight prints included in the book, printed on kitikata; a copy of the book’s title page; the prospectus; a copy of the thorn etching used to cover the boards in the edition; & a broadside showing some of the ornamental tailpieces created for the book. US$250
4. The Shadow Over Innsmouth w/ A History of the Necronomicon
The 2020 Collected Edition (176 pages, 5 x 7.5 inches) of 16 copies bound in quarter leather with leather fore-edge by Claudia Cohen.
This book combines two publications related only by their author. Sixteen sets of extra sheets from HM’s 2005 edition of The Shadow Over Innsmouth were found when the bindery closed. These are extras from the Batrachian issue, printed on Mohawk paper by David Clifford at Black Stone Press, Vancouver.
Some years after publishing Innsmouth, several dozen copies of a pamphlet reprinting A History of the Necronomicon were presented to HM from the estate of the original printer, with the invitation to put them to some use. The family asked only that the person behind the publication remain anonymous. The exact print run is not known, but as it was done by an amateur printer for distribution to fellow enthusiasts (which the family confirmed), it cannot have been a large number. Apparently some flaw in the printing or text was discovered shortly after its production, and few copies were distributed. The pamphlet has been combined with the discovered Innsmouth sheets, for this Collected Edition.
The original colophon from Innsmouth was been removed, and replaced with proofs of Shinsuke Minegishi’s wood engravings pulled from the blocks at Heavenly Monkey, February 2020. They were printed on gampi paper made by Reg Lissel.
Shinsuke’s signature appears in these copies under the frontis engraving, which opens out to show a map of Innsmouth that can be used to track the narrator’s travels through its streets. Cdn$4,000