Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Original gray cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 3500 copies printed. [207] pp. Lacking the title page. Small sticker pull on front endpaper, very small dampstain to cloth near top edge of front panel. A good, sound copy... More
[No Place]: Xoanon, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Full variegated natural linen with colour printed dust jacket. 106 pp, 32 illustrations in full colour, plus additional black & white images. 740 copies printed. A fine copy, as new in dust jacket. ¶ The face of the magical order... More
United Kingdom: Atramentous Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original buckram cloth, two colour foil block to front and back, gold foil block to spine, head and tail bands, natural wibalin endpapers, ribbon book marker. 250 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 777 copies. A fine copy... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original two-tone cloth. 236 pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "Always best wishes to Carmen - Elmore Leonard Sept. 1969". A very good copy. Slight corner bumps, cloth with rubbing / wear... More
Chicago: Privately Printed; The deLaurence Company. 1937. First Edition Thus. Hardcover, Sewn Binding, Black Cloth. Reprint of the 1898 London edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt titles on spine and front panel, black endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece, xv + 296pp. Illustrated throughout with full page plates, plus... More
Pacific Grove, CA: Roy Squires and Clyde Beck, 1962. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, original light brown wrappers printed in green on upper cover. 390 copies printed, of which this is one of 175 copies issued in boards with black cloth spine titled in gilt. 175 were paperbound in printed... More
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original gold-stamped buff boards in dust jacket. [100] pp. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "Clark Ashton Smith, Auburn, Cal. Nov. 27th, 1912". With a later inscription by the author on the same leaf, dated... More
Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. A VIRTUALLY FINE COPY IN THE MOST DESIRABLE DUST JACKET AND WITH THE ERRATA SLIP. Octavo, original black cloth titled in silver. Of two known bindings, this copy has the title in upper and lower case letters. 158... More
UK: The Society for Esoteric Endeavour, 2018. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this edition, the first Hardcover Edition of a work first issued in paper wrappers in 1895. Afterword by Christopher Josiffre. 139 pp. Octavo, original black cloth titled and decorated in white, decorative embossed endpapers. 193 copies... More
Typed Letter Signed, on Mrs. Clark Ashton Smith's Letterhead, Dated Five Days Before the Author's Death and Detailing His Medical Condition. 117 - 9th Street, Pacific Grove, California. Dated Aug 9?/61. Addressed to "My very Dear Harry, Sophia" [Harry Rosenberry, Manager of the Auburn branch of the Bank of California]... More
Chicago: The De Laurence Company, Inc., [1948]. Hardcover. Third printing (stated). Quarto, original smooth-grained light brownish-red cloth titled in gold on spine panel, magic square design on front panel. 268 pp. Although dated 1948, this volume was likely published somewhat later than that (De Laurence never updated copyright or date... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Large crown octavo, original black cloth titled and decorated in gilt on spine. 3004 copies printed. 474 pp. Attractive bookplate on inner front cover, page edges slightly browned, small corner bumps, gilt on spine bright and unrubbed; a very good, bright... More
Redwood City, CA: 1937. TYPED LETTER SIGNED [TLS] on the author's Letterhead, to Adolphe de Castro, dated March 31, 1937. One sheet, typed on one side, signed "EHP" at base of page. Approx 485 words. A very interesting an poignant letter from one close member of the "Lovecraft Circle" to... More
London: The Folio Society, 2017. First Edition Thus. Quarto, bound in full black eco simulated leather blocked with a design in blind and gilt by Dan Hillier, hand-marbled endpapers by Jemma Lewis, all edges blacked. 417 pp. Issued in an edition of 750 hand-numbered copies, this being copy No. 306... More
Three Hands Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall Quarto, full green cloth with color dust jacket. 560 pp., over 275 original illustrations specifically commissioned for this book, 12 full-page color plates. Calligraphy by Gail Coppock. Containing: Magical Correspondences, Ethnobotany, Folklore & Chemistry; Charts, Tables, Diagrams and Lexica of Magical Botany;... More
Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press. 1973. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. One of 500 numbered copies bound in full cloth, this being copy No. 15. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper, as new. More
UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2018. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Quarter Vellum over black cloth boards. The Special Fine Edition, limited to 72 hand numbered copies, this being copy No. 69. Octavo, hand bound in quarter vellum, black cloth boards, custom marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bookmark, housed in a.... More
No Place: Xoanon Publishing, 2018. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, bound in full carmine cloth with letterpress dust jacket, limited to 496 hand numbered copies. 160 pp., with 10 illustrations by Jim Dunk. A fine copy, new in dust jacket. ¶ ‘Crooked Path Sorcery’ is a term originating within... More
Boston: Little,Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition [stated]. Octavo, original tan cloth titled in green on spine, publisher's device in blind on upper cover, top edges stained green. 406 pp. With a short non-authorial inscription on the front free endpaper "to Pat, With Love, Xmas... More
![THE MASTER OF THE CRABS [in] WEIRD TALES Magazine. March, 1948 issue. CANADIAN EDITION. Clark Ashton SMITH.](/pictures/thumb/310964.jpg?v=1539365011)
Toronto: The American News Company, 1948. First Canadian Edition. The First Appearance in Print of this Short Story. This issue corresponds to the same monthly issue as the US edition (Vol 40, No. 3), but with Canadian ads. Paper off-white and creamy, small edgetears, small marks on rear covers; an... More
Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2016. First Edition, First Impression. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 200 copies signed by Donald Ho, Ron Hilger, Donald Sidney-Fryer (and by Smith in facsimile), this being copy No. 154. Quarto - large format, 11 inches tall. Original black cloth titled in gold on spine... More
Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2017. First Edition, First Impression. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 300 copies signed by Conners (and by Smith in facsimile), this being copy No. 298. Quarto, original black cloth embossed in blind on front cover, spine panel titled in white and yellow, marbled gold endpapers... More
London: W. Collins & Co Ltd., [1930]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, later issue & binding. Octavo, original black cloth titled in red on spine and front panel, border in red on front panel. 269 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. The ads are for "NEW 7/6 DETECTIVE NOVELS"... More
London: Geoffrey Bles. [1953]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original red boards titled in black on spine [224] pp. Small marks to covers, a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. ¶ Classic tale of crime and detection with Dr. Lancelot Priestley as detective. More
Toronto: Dodd, Mead & Company (Canada) Limited, [1933]. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian Edition. Octavo, original mauve cloth titled in black on spine and front cover. 301 pp. Likely, these are the same sheets and binding as the US edition, with new preliminaries. Faint cup rings to the cloth;... More