Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith
Sauk City: Arkham House, 2003.
Octavo. xxvii, 417 pp. Publisher's original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, patterned endpapers, dust jacket unclipped. Tight, square, and unread with crisp corners and clean page margins.
A contribution to the history of twentieth-century American speculative literature and the Weird Tales circle, Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith collects 276 annotated letters composed between 1911 and 1961. Smith exchanged intimate reflections on poetry, aesthetics, cosmic horror, sculpture, and financial hardship with prominent literary contemporaries such as George Sterling, Donald Wandrei, and Lovecraft himself. Published in a run of approximately 3,000 copies by Arkham House. L3.
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