Virgil Finlay

Published by Donald M. Grant, West Kingdom, Rhode island, USA, 1971.
[1225 copies.]

Back of Dust-jacket

Spine

Front of Dust-jacket

Contents:

• Copyright statement, page 4.
• Dedication, page 5.
• 'Preface' by Donald M. Grant.
• Selected Illustrations by Virgil Finlay, pp. 11-63.
• Virgil Finlay An Appreciation by Sam Moskowitz, pp. 65-94.
• A Virgil Finlay Checklist by Gerry de la Ree, pp. 95-153.

Blank pages appear on pages 6, 8, 10, 12, 64, 66, 96, and pp. 154-162. End papers not illustrated.

Drawing on the front of the dust-jacket also appears on the frontispiece on page 3. Neither of these illustrations is named, but the drawing is in fact the top right part of a two page spread for 'Incomplete Superman', 1951.

Next to the cover drawing, 'Virgil Finlay' contains four color reproductions and 37 black & white drawings in the section titled 'Selected Illustrations by Virgil Finlay'.

• page 3 (frontispiece): unnamed illustration.
• page 13: 'Old Cornish Litany' (1937), from Weird Tales, February 1938.
• page 14: 'The Ark of Fire' (1938), Interior illustration for John Hawkins story in The American Weekly.
• page 15: 'The Shunned House' (1937), illustration for H.P. Lovecraft's story in Weird Tales, October 1937.
• page 16: 'Her Ways are Death', illustration for Jack Mann's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1952.
• page 17: 'Fabulous Oriental Hoards', from a 1939 issue of The American Weekly.
• page 19: 'A Brand New World', color. Cover for a Ray Cumming's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, September 1942.
• page 21: 'The Goddess Awakes' (1937), illustration for Clifford Ball's story in Weird Tales, February 1938.
• page 23: 'Creep Shadow', color. Cover for A. Merritt's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, August 1942.
• page 25: 'The Black Stone Statue' (1937), illustration for Mary Elizabeth Counselman's story in Weird Tales, December 1937.
• page 27: 'The Spot of Life', color. Cover for Austin Hall's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, February 1941.
• page 29: 'Transgalactic Twins', illustration for George O.Smith's story in Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1948.
• page 31: 'Palos of the Dog Star Pack', color. Cover for J.U. Giesy's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1941.
• page 33: 'Roads' (1937), illustration for Seabury Quinn's story in Weird Tales, January 1938.
• page 34-35: 'Dreadful Sleep' (1937), illustration for Jack Williamson's story in Weird Tales, March 1937.
• page 36: 'Taurus', illustration for Astrology magazine, May 1970.
• page 37: 'Kubla Khan' (1937), illustration for Weird Tales, January 1938.
• page 38: 'Burn Witch, Burn!', illustration for A. Merritt's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1942.
• page 39: 'People of the Pit', illustration for A. Merritt's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, January 1941.
• page 40-41: 'Dwellers in the Mirage', illustration for A. Merritt's story in Fantastic Novels magazine, September 1949.
• page 42-43: 'A God named Kroo', illustration for Henry Kuttner's story in Fantastic Story magazine, Summer 1954.
• page 44: 'A Fog Was Blowing', illustration for Stanton A. Coblenz's story in Weird Tales, May 1953.
• page 45: 'Reclining Medusa', Virgil Finlay's first drawing sold the Weird Tales, December 1935.
• page 45: 3 small unnamed drawings.
• page 46-47: 'The Red Dust', illustration for Murray Leister's story in Fantastic Novels magazine, May 1949.
• page 48: 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (1937), from the poetry page of Weird Tales, April 1938, illustrating the poem by Keats.
• page 49: 'Skeleton In Armour' (1937), illustration for Longfellow's story in Weird Tales, June 1938.
• page 50: 'Psychopompos' (1937), illustration for H.P. Lovecraft's story in Weird Tales, September 1937.
• page 51: 'The Citadel of Fear', illustration for Francis Stevens' story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, February 1942.
• page 52-53: 'The Purple Sapphire', illustration for John Taine's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, August 1948.
• page 54: 'The House of the Living Dead' (1937), illustration for Edmond Hamilton's story in Weird Tales, January 1938.
• page 55: 'The Bird of Time', illustration for Wallace West's story in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1952.
• page 56-57: 'Black Butterflies', illustration for Elmer Brown Masosn's story in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, April 1949.
• page 58: 'The Hairy Ones Shall Dance' (1937), illustration for Gans T. Field's story in Weird Tales, February 1938.
• page 59: 'Portals of Illusion', illustration for H. Bedford-Jones's story in The American Weekly, 1938. Drawing contains a personal inscription from Virgil Finlay to H. Bedford-Jones.
• page 60: 'A Million Years to Conquer', illustration for Henry Kuttner's story in Fantastic Story Quarterly, September 1952.
• page 61: 'Sagittarius', illustration for Astrology, December 1967.
• page 62: 'The Curse of Carthage', illustration in Argosy magazine, August 1947.
• page 63: 'A Virgil Finlay self-portrait', 1961.

The number of 1225 copies is taken from the essay 'The Legend Grows' by Gerry de la Ree in the The Third Book of Virgil Finlay.