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The Abominations of Yondo
by Smith, Clark Ashton
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1960 Hardcover. Black "Novelex" cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5 ⅛" x 7 ¼"). 227pp. *** Publisher Arkham House was established in 1939 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei specifically to publish stories by H.P. Lovecraft and others whose works had mostly been printed in the "Weird Tales" magazine and remained unavailable in book form. *** Clark Ashton Smith was a poet and a sculptor, before gaining popularity as a short-story writer for "Weird Tales". This collection contains stories of adventurers seeking their fortune only to be confounded by harsh reality, and ends with some Kafka-esque tales of wistful regret. Includes the story "The Third Episode of Vathek", which completes a fragment by the author William Beckford, author of the early Gothic novel with Arabian setting, Vathek (1786). *** The dust jacket design is by Ronald Clyne and Wynn Bullock. *** Condition: A Fine, fresh copy with no ownership marks or underlining, in a Fine dust jacket, now protected in mylar. Binding tight. Bookplate of renowned bibliophile Richard Manney to front pastedown. Richard Manney was famous for buying the best copies he could, from Shakespeare folios to Arkham House collectibles. A portion of his library was sold at Sotheby's in 1991. *** Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1487; L.W. Currey: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, page 453. Nielsen 60.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Ronald Clyne; Wynn Bullock.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8834
- Title
- The Abominations of Yondo
- Author
- Smith, Clark Ashton
- Illustrator
- Ronald Clyne; Wynn Bullock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1960
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Now entering our eighteenth year, Dark and Stormy Night Books is an online bookstore carrying Rare, Antiquarian and other interesting finds. Alasdair and Alexandra Johnson, Proprietors. Alasdair, from Edinburgh, Scotland has a colorful heritage including the salvage of shipwrecks off the English coast, and transportation of an eighteenth-century revolutionary relative to Australia. When not swashbuckling through the world of electronics and other gizmos as a lad, he scared himself silly with science-fiction, ghost stories and gothic novels. His partner, Alexandra, is a third-generation book dealer, whose family had the smallest of small-press workshops in the family barn. She is a graduate in history and art history from Bowdoin College, with a particular interest in the Far East and the China trade, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement. She also spent some years working for a nationally known early-American antiques dealer. They make their home in historic Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. Visit our website: www.darkandstormynightbooks.com
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