Assembled from the best pictures on various listings, here’s a closer look at the fine detail and penmanship of the pleasing Frank Utpatel cover for the Arkham Press edition of Lovecraft’s Collected Poems (1963).

In Photoshop I’ve repaired a couple of bits of edge-wear and de-saturated some tobacco staining.

The scene must evoke Lovecraft on his favourite bluff above York Pond in Providence, overlooking the real River Seekonk. Though here the view of opposite bank of the wide river is more akin to Ulthar than to the humdrum East Providence.

And here’s a look at the full dustjacket, in which we see the full curve of the tree…

Of course, today you can obtain a fine edition of the complete poetry in its second edition, for which I recently made a free back-of-the-book index. It’s missing only one newly-discovered early poem from 1912, which was recently printed in the Lovecraft Annual and is on the Brown Repository here if you want to print it out and slip it in the back of the book.

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Also, newly listed on Honest Abe’s site is an apparently “scholarly” Lovecraft ‘zine from the 1970s…