First edition, first printing, association copy with an ALS from Henry S. Whitehead (1882-1932). This is the copy of sci-fi and fantasy author Robert Hayward Barlow (1918-51), who wrote the biographical preface to this title in which he describes Whitehead as a member of "the serious Weird Tales school". Like Whitehead, Barlow was based in Florida. He has pinned a photograph of Whitehead facing the preface, and tipped in to the rear pastedown an autograph letter signed from Whitehead to Barlow, dated March 11 1932, in which Whitehead remarks that "It is always a stimulating experience to find a new friend." Barlow was a close friend and acolyte also of H. P. Lovecraft with whom he had been friends since the age of 13. The pair collaborated on six stories, and Barlow was named Lovecraft's literary executor. Barlow was also an author and poet in his own right, as well as a sculptor, and an expert in Mexican culture and language (described as "the T. E. Lawrence of Mexico"). William Burroughs studied the Mayan Codices under Barlow in Mexico in 1950, where Barlow lived and worked until committing suicide by barbituate overdose in 1951, leaving pinned on his door in Mayan pictographs "Do not disturb me. I want to sleep a long time." Jumbee, though posthumously published, was Whitehead's first published work, printed in an edition of 1559 copies. A great Lovecraft-Arkham association copy.
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