Formerly in FBI Evidence
West India Lights
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946. First US edition.
Notes: Supernatural stories collected from Weird Tales, Strange Tales, and Amazing Stories. According to Joshi, the story The Trap was revised by H. P. Lovecraft.
3,037 copies. Cover art by Ronald Clyne. [vi], 368, [2:blank] pages.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 18; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 20.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first and only Arkham House printing). A near fine or better copy in a very good dust jacket that is tanned and has small damp spots on the spine. Shallow snag at the top of the front panel. With the Lovecraft-inspired letterpress bookplate of the James Strand estate on the front pastedown.
This copy came from the important Arkham House collection assembled by James Strand of Portland, Oregon. After his death, in August 2023, his house was looted and most of his books were stolen. The FBI recovered this copy from a storage unit in Oregon City; the original evidence tag is laid in.
Item No: #365480
Price: $125