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Hay, George (editor); Wilson, Colin.
Necronomicon. The Book of Dead Names [Signed].
Publisher: Neville Spearman, Jersey;
Date of Publication: 1978
Stock Code: 12706
Octavo, pp. 184. With black and white illustrations by Robert Turner and Gavin Stamp. Bound in publisher’s black cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers. In the publisher’s unclipped patterned dust-jacket. A near fine book in a very good dust-jacket, signed boldly to the title-page by editor George Hay. Cloth clean and gilt bright, small chip to rear paste-down. Contents clean, crisp, and free from ownership marks, inscriptions and annotations. Dust-jacket slightly creased and worn to edges with two miniscule nicks.
George Hay’s imaginative interpretation of the occult grimoire; or textbook of magic. Widely considered one of the best Necronomicons, Hay’s book serves as an indispensable guide to the world of Lovecraftian fiction and includes many more illustrations than Clark Ashton Simon’s version. Contains an extensive introduction by Collin Wilson as well as additional essays by Angela Carter, Christopher Frayling, and L. Sprague de Camp. £95.00