Selected Poems by Clark Ashton Smith - 1971

Arkham House. 1971. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8x5.5", xix+403 pp. Light perfume odor in pages, else clean, tight, VG in VG dj with very light edge wear, slightly yellowed spine. .

arkham, 1971, first edition ,, . fine, never used jacket only, NO BOOK

Arkham House, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES, TEXT UNMARKED

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Sauk City, WI:Arkham House. 1971. 1st edition, limited to 2000 copies. xix+403pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good, clean condition. Gilt on spine still bright. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is in very good, clean condition with just very minor soiling and nominal wear to edges. It is not price clipped.  

Arkham House, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. First printing of 2000cc. Dust jacket edgeworn.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1971 1st edition, limited to 2,000 copies. Tight and VG (light soiling to the panels and along the fore-edge) in a very crisp, price-intact, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 403 pgs.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. First edition. Near fine / near fine.. Black cloth, gilt spine. xx,403 pp. First edition, edition limited to 2118 copies. Small bump at lower fore-tip, else near fine, in bright, near fine Gary Gore designed dust jacket with only slight use at tips.  Introductory appreciation essay by Benjamin DeCasseres entitled, "Clark Ashton Smith: Emperor of Shadows." This omnibus collection of the poems of  Smith, containing over five hundred selections, reproduces  entire volumes of verse long out of print as well as complete cycles of poems never before published. "Smith prepared this volume between 1944 and 1949 but never saw it published; instead, it was delayed until eight years after his death. It is the only Arkham House poetry volume published up to this time to receive a 'normal,' rather than a limited print run -- and justly so, for Smith is far and away the leading weird poet in English and would have been recognized as a major American poet of the… Read More

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 9997546156 . Limited to 2000 copies (actually 2118 copies) . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some beginning rubbing to the spine edges. "Though Smith primarily considered himself a poet, having turned to prose for the meager financial sum it rewarded, his prose might best be appreciated as a "fleshed" out poetry. In this light, plot and characters are subservient to the milieu of work: a setting of cold quiet reality, which, mixed with the erotic and the exotic, places his work within its own unique, phantasmagoric genre. While he also experimented in painting, sculpture, and translation, it is in his written work that his legacy persists. During his lifetime, Smith's work appeared commonly in the pulps alongside… Read More

SELECTED POEMS, Arkham House, 1971, first edition, faint stain to a small section of the upper margin of the rear cover, else a fine copy in a vg/vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. 1/2,000 copies.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A lovely first edition collection of the poetry of prolific writer Clark Ashton Smith, published by Arkham House. This is a first edition, with just over two thousand copies published.Contains a number of translated poems, his early poetry, haiku experiments and satires.Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was an American writer and poet. His works were highly regarded by H. P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury. He was renowned for his weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos tales, publishing his work in Weird Tales magazine. In the publisher's original full cloth binding, with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper has just some slight wear to the head and tail of the spine in particular, with a small tear running down the front board. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine