{"id":18991,"date":"2018-11-09T06:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18991"},"modified":"2018-11-09T06:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:42:37","slug":"vintage-portuguese-lovecraft-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/09\/vintage-portuguese-lovecraft-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Portuguese Lovecraft, 1941?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cover for <em>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward<\/em> in Portuguese translation, published from Lisbon in (apparently) 1941.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1941-portugal-the-case-of-charles-dexter-ward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1941-portugal-the-case-of-charles-dexter-ward.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"705\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18992\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Lovecraft bibliography<\/em> has this as &#8220;1958?&#8221;, but the eBay seller who provided this scan and who had the book to hand stated 1941. Colour covers during wartime seems a little unlikely, though.  But possibly they were expected on paperbacks in Brazil and wouldn&#8217;t sell well without colour?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarium.com.br\/artigos\/sombras\/simao06.html\">An article on Lovecraft in Portuguese<\/a> suggests &#8220;1956&#8221;, and &mdash; although that claim is unreferenced &mdash; the date does seem to match the illustration style and the use of colour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cover for The Case of Charles Dexter Ward in Portuguese translation, published from Lisbon in (apparently) 1941. The Lovecraft &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/09\/vintage-portuguese-lovecraft-1941\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18991","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=18991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}