{"id":14754,"date":"2015-07-18T06:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T03:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=14754"},"modified":"2015-07-18T06:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T03:32:44","slug":"tharr-she-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/07\/18\/tharr-she-blows\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tharr she blows!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft&#8217;s copy of the famous novel <em>Moby Dick<\/em> has been found, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/americanantiquarian.org\/\">Dan Boudreau<\/a> of the American Antiquarian Society.  The Society has <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/aRXyq\">found the book<\/a> in its collections.  One wonders what else of his may have been sent their way, by Barlow or Lovecraft&#8217;s aunt.<\/p>\n<p>The inscription shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/07\/22\/lovecraft-and-moby-dick\/\">I was right to think<\/a> that Lovecraft may have had a copy from his bookseller friend Kirk in the Spring of 1925.  Lovecraft read the 1892 Dana Estes &amp; Co. edition in its 1919 reprinting by the Page Company, which added four rather uninspiring illustrations by A. Burnham Shute (taken from Arthur Stedman&#8217;s United States Book Company edition).  Unfortunately there appears to be no online facsimile scan of this edition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/nzmnjou.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/nzmnjou.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"nzmnJoU\" width=\"529\" height=\"529\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/qsuvkjc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/qsuvkjc.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"qSUVkJc\" width=\"529\" height=\"705\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14757\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mluujzb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mluujzb.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"MlUuJZB\" width=\"529\" height=\"705\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14756\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft&#8217;s copy of the famous novel Moby Dick has been found, thanks to Dan Boudreau of the American Antiquarian Society. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/07\/18\/tharr-she-blows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}