WANDREI, Donald (1908-87). The Web of Easter Island, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1948, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.

WANDREI, Donald (1908-87).  The Web of Easter Island. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948. 8vo (184 x 130mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on the title. Original black cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the dust-jacket by Audrey Johnson with the price of $3.00 unclipped. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. A printed note at the end states: "Three thousand copies of this book have been printed from linotype Baskerville by the Collegiate Press, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin. This book is printed on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex." The book bears a printed dedication by the author to H. P. Lovecraft, who is mentioned on the front turn-in: "Of The Web of Easter Island, read in manuscript, the late H. P. Lovecraft wrote: 'You will like this novel - especially the poetically cosmic second half, one chapter of which is a masterpiece of underground horror'." Please note that the original dust-jacket has been photographed in its modern protective archival Mylar wrapper, thereby avoiding any risk of damage through its temporary removal. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (1983) 1657; Jaffery The Arkham House Companion (1992) 32.