Most Treasured.....

Kevin

Kevin

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Which is NOT the same as the most valuable. Or maybe it is....

Anyway, at the moment mine is the Silver Scarab edition of 'Songs,' signed by TL himself during a brief correspondence a few years ago.

The feel of it in my hand, along with the memory, never fails to satisfy.

Thanks Tom!
 
Quite possibly the copy of Crypt Of Cthulhu #68 which Wilum Pugmire gave to me a while back. (To the aforementioned: I am, as ever, in your debt!) Or the hardback copy of TAROVFAOGT, which was long ago a Christmas present from my father. How he got it, I do not know, but it is both lovely and valuable.

On the more ironic side of things, I hold an odd sort of affection for the bedraggled, mouse-nibbled secondhand hardback copy of SOADD I have. It pains and disappoints me that such a fine book has come to such outward dismay (some, inadvertantly, at my own hands), and yet I find such supreme satisfaction in cracking the miserable beast open to find not only such exceptional prose, but such strangely pristine pages...
 
Ah, a hardcover VF. Nice!

Which SOADD are you referring to? The Silver Scarab version?

Anyway, to keep things going, my new fave is the lettered edition of MWINYD. Now THAT'S what limited editions are all about! Glorious!
 
At the moment, I consider all books signed/inscribed by Tom to be my most treasured. Also, a letter I acquired not too long ago by TL to the editor of Dagon.

Outside of Ligotti works, my other two precious volumes are Reggie Oliver's The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini due to their rarity and the extremely involved quest I had to undertake to get these.
 
Besides the few books signed or inscribed by TL I possess, my treasure (my preciousss!) is it the H.P. Lovecraft's personal copy of A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Revised Standard Edition of 1881, Albert Harkness - New York, Appleton and Company, 1889.
The old, slightly damaged book is inscribed, and between its pages I found some thin paper strips used as bookmarks, a couple of them covered on both sides with the HPL's tiny handwriting in slight pencil.

I would prefer to starve rather than sell it...


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I have a special shelf just for my rare Ligotti editions and collectibles, but perhaps the most unique and prized artifact is a polaroid of Tom (also signed).

As far as non-Ligotti items go, I would have to say my most treasured book is my copy of Andrew Chumbley's masterpiece, Azoetia.

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