{"id":44970,"date":"2021-02-11T05:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=44970"},"modified":"2021-02-11T05:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:58:47","slug":"new-book-old-world-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/11\/new-book-old-world-footprints\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Old World Footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new David Goudsward publication. He has made Old World Footprints<\/a><\/em> available again in a new Kindle ebook edition at a modest price.<\/p>\n

In 1928, Mrs. William B. Symmes gave her family and friends 300 copies of her 32-page travelogue. The book’s printer was amateur pressman W. Paul Cook … Mrs. Symmes’ nephew, Frank Belknap Long is credited for the preface, actually ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft proofread the book for Cook, and may have edited it as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The work is a very minor footnote in Lovecraft’s life and writing. But many will still welcome this new edition which is annotated and has photos. <\/p>\n

It’s presented in 58 pages. I’m uncertain what “revised” means. The Amazon listing has it that it’s a “Print Replica” and “revised”. My guess is that “revised” may mean that errors of fact may have been corrected via the annotations? Or perhaps it’s just an Amazon thing, a way to get a clean listing so that Amazon’s idiot-bots don’t confuse it with the original?<\/p>\n

Lovecraft’s ghost-written preface can also be found in Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Volume 5: Philosophy; Autobiography<\/em>. David Goudsward’s article “Cassie Symmes: Inadvertent Lovecraftian” was in The Fossil<\/em>, April 2017, and presumably the new book builds on this and provides the definitive version of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new David Goudsward publication. He has made Old World Footprints available again in a new Kindle ebook edition …<\/p>\n

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