Poems in Prose
by Smith, Clark Ashton
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- Hardcover
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- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1965 Hardcover. SIGNED by artist, Frank Utpatel to front free endpaper. Black cloth "Novelex" binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5 ⅛" x 7 ⅜"). 54pp. *** 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 of "Prose Poems" consists of very short tales in the manner of Kafka or Lord Dunsany, and conjures up dreamscapes and visions of beauty and loss. *** The dust jacket design and 12 full-page illustrations are by Wisconsin artist, Frank Utpatel, who was a prolific book illustrator at Arkham House and elsewhere. *** 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. *** L.W. Currey: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, page 453. Nielsen 87.. Signed by artist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Frank Utpatel.
Synopsis
Poems in Prose is an illustrated collection of prose poems by Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1965 and was published by Arkham House in an edition of 1,016 copies. The book is a nearly complete collection of Smith's prose poetry.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8836
- Title
- Poems in Prose
- Author
- Smith, Clark Ashton
- Illustrator
- Frank Utpatel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1965
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