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Smith, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci And Other Tales. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover Art; This edition limited to 3000 (3047 according to the Arkham House Companion) copies. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some lightish bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page, and an ink stamped name and address of a publisher (Wehmen Bros. ) at the bottom edge of the title page. The dust jacket is in generally clean condition, but has some light rubbing to the spine ends and corners, and the reverse of the front spine joint has tape residue (but no tape now) where a previous owner had strengthened the joint. (there are no tears) . The book includes the short fiction : Genius Loci, The Willow Landscape, The Ninth Skeleton, The Phantoms of the Fire, The Eternal World, Vulthoom, A Star-Change, The Primal City, The Disinterment of Venus, The Colossus of Ylourgne, The Satyr, The Garden of Adompha, The Charnel God, The Black Abbot of Puthuum, and, The Weaver in the Vault. "At the beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than a hundred short stories between 1929 and 1934, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction. Like Lovecraft, he drew upon the nightmares that had plagued him during youthful spells of sickness. Brian Stableford has written that the stories written during this brief phase of hectic productivity "constitute one of the most remarkable oeuvres in imaginative literature". He published at his own expense a volume containing six of his best stories, The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies, in an edition of 1000 copies printed by the Auburn Journal. The theme of much of his work is egotism and its supernatural punishment; his weird fiction is generally macabre in subject matter, gloatingly preoccupied with images of death, decay and abnormality. " (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. Genius Loci and Other Tales. Arkham House, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of 2000cc. Blindstamp on fron flyleaf.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci and other tales. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$174.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A square solid tight clean unread copy. Age toning to the edges of the text block, light toning to end papers front and rear, light board edge wear. The 3.00 priced jacket has some light rubbing, light edge wear, light chipping to head and heel of the spine, light soil, fading to extremities. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. 3000 copies.
Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cloth.8vo.228 pages.fine copy in fine DUST JACKET. LTD edition to 3000 copies.scarce.original Price ($3.00).Present.
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.
SMITH, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES.. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition of 3047 copies. Mild bit of darkening to fixed endpapers and at edges of text block, NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE jacket with lightly tanned spine. A very pleasing collectors copy of this book.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI and Other Tales. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo. 7.75 x 5.5". 228pp. Black cloth. The author's third collection of weird tales published by Arkham House. Limited to around 3000 copies. Nice bright dust jacket has a darkening and little wear to spine.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Genius Loci and Other Tales by Clark Ashton Smith (First Edition) Minor edge and surface wear. Owner's bookplate to pastedown. Some offset tanning to endpapers. Evenly tanned textblock edges. Some toning and shallow loss to spine head and foot and corner tips of the jacket. Not price-clipped, original $3.00 price intact. Fresh protective clear Brodart cover. First edition and first printing, not stated. 3000 copies printed, stated. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Collects 15 stories.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. Genius Loci and Other Tales. Arkham House, 1948.
Price: US$233.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD condition DUST JACKET: Minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very minor chipping to top corners of spine and bottom center of same, bottom outside corners, and top edge of back panel. Sun darkening to spine, folds and top edge of flaps. Stressing to folds. BOARDS: Very good condition. Wear to crown and foot of spine. A couple of very small bumps, both boards. Shelf rubbing to bottom edges. BOOK: Very good condition. Age toning/offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. More pics available on request. ******************************************* Here on offer is a very nice copy of Clark Ashton Smith's volume of short stories, Genius Loci and Other Tales, a supernatural journey into the macabre in 18 stories. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Arkham House in 1948. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ******************************************** "The weirdest realms in fantasy ***** Here again in these sixteen stories are the gorgeous, luxuriant, and feverishly distorted visions of infinite spheres and multiple dimensions which have made of Clark Ashton Smith's work something unique in the annals of the macabre. In this collection there are tales of Hyperborea, Zothique, Averoigne, Atlantis, Xiccarph, and other vanished worlds of Smith's unparalleled creation. Here are such unforgettable tales as Vulthoom, The Colossus of Ylourgne, The Charnel God, The Black Abbot of Puuthuum, The Weaver in the Vault, and others. ***** 'None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living' - H.P. Lovecraft ***** 'He had a monstrously vivid imagination, a keenly ironic sense of humour, and an uninhibited bent for the macabre.' - L. Sprague de Camp" //////////////////////////////////////// Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". ///// Smith was one of "the big three of Weird Tales, with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", though some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. The fantasy writer and critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse". Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle, and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. His work is marked by an extraordinarily rich and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor. ///// Of his writing style, Smith stated: "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation." ********** The above text was taken from, respectively, Panther Books Ltd. and Wikipedia.
Seller: Second-handsome Books, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. The author's third collection of fiction from Arkham House. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1486. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-201. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. Lower corners bumped else a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild age tanning to spine panel and slight crease to base of spine panel (14978)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
SMITH, Clark Ashton.. Genius Loci and Other Tales.. , 1948.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Description: First edition (only 3000 copies printed). Arkham House, Sauk City, USA. 1948. Hardback with DW. Bottom margin of front board is slightly bumped. Endpapers are a little browned o/w a very nice copy with exceptionally clean wrapper.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Smith, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Black cloth "Novelex" binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5" x 7 ?"). 228pp. *** 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 concerning "Genius Loci" - a classical term meaning "guardian spirits of places". This sums up the atmosphere of these stories nicely, with their aura of brooding presences somewhat akin to Algernon Blackwood's famous story, "The Willows". *** The dust jacket design is by American artist Frank Wakefield. *** Condition: A Near Fine, fresh copy with no ownership marks or underlining, in a Near 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, 1486; L.W. Currey: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, page 453. Nielsen 36.
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci and Other Tales. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1948.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 228pp. Beautiful First Printing of this collection of 15 stories, Smith's third Arkham anthology. One of only 3,047 copies printed, (Jaffery, p.43). Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Perhaps a hint of off-setting to end-papers but quite minor. Very attractive unclipped wrapper, ($3.00), has a bit of wear to the tips and very minor toning to folds and flap edges. Still, fresh and bright with no creasing chipping or tears. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci and Other Tales. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1948.
Price: US$283.25 + shipping
Description: Small Octavo. . 228 pages. Derleth writing in the English Journal traces the cosmic horror themes which he feels is among the best, agreeing with what Lovecraft had written earlier. This book represents that Lovecraftian concept. Jaffrey #35 reports 3,047 copies, the colophon incorrectly reports only 3,000 copies. A near fine copy bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Frank Wakefield with some toning and chipping to spine.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES / ASSOCIATION COPY. Arkham House, 1948.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES, Arkham House, 1948, first edition, vg in like pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear. Formerly the copy of fellow science fiction author Hal Clement with his bookplate on the f.p.d. Nice association thus. 1/3,000 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. Genius Loci and Other Tales. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1948.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. $3.00 price intact. Some toning to spine of dust jacket. Some toning to front/rear paste downs. One of 3,000 copies printed. Beautiful copy!
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Description: [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 228; [1], Limitation; [1], blank. publisher's advertisements. Publisher's black cloth, simply titled in gilt to the spine, dust-wrapper designed by Frank Wakefield priced at $3.00/. A fine copy in near fine jacket. 3000 copies printed. One of Smith's finer collections of metaphysical mayhem.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
SMITH, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci and Other Tales. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Limited to 3000 copies. Small bump on rear panel with tiny owner names on bottom page edge and on the title page along with date, near fine in bright dustwrapper with tiny scrape on rear panel, along with subtle ink marks real and real flap, near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3047 copies printed. The author's third collection of weird tales published by Arkham House, containing fifteen tales from his most productive period, the first half of the 1930s. The settings include his two recurrent imaginary realms, French Averoigne and the futuristic Zothique, a post-civilizational wasteland where magic reigns. " . the best [of the Zothique stories] are possessed of an unparalleled dramatic surge which carries them helter-skelter through a mass of bizarre detail to devastating conclusions." - Brian Stableford, in St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 530. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1486. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-201. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-141. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A sharp copy. (#141403)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3047 copies printed. The author's third collection of weird tales published by Arkham House, containing fifteen tales from his most productive period, the first half of the 1930s. The settings include his two recurrent imaginary realms, French Averoigne and the futuristic Zothique, a post-civilizational wasteland where magic reigns. " . the best [of the Zothique stories] are possessed of an unparalleled dramatic surge which carries them helter-skelter through a mass of bizarre detail to devastating conclusions." - Brian Stableford, in St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 530. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1486. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-201. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-141. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. Tiny book label of Ned Brooks affixed to the front paste-down. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of tanning to spine panel. A very nice copy. (#159781)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3047 copies printed. The author's third collection of weird tales published by Arkham House, containing fifteen tales from his most productive period, the first half of the 1930s. The settings include his two recurrent imaginary realms, French Averoigne and the futuristic Zothique, a post-civilizational wasteland where magic reigns. " . the best [of the Zothique stories] are possessed of an unparalleled dramatic surge which carries them helter-skelter through a mass of bizarre detail to devastating conclusions." - Brian Stableford, in St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 530. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1486. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-201. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-141. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A sharp copy. (#162623)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wis, 1948.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Currey, p. 453 Black cloth, printed dust jacket. Slight toning to pastedowns. Fine copy in near fine yellow dust jacket (some toning to spine panel)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. Genius Loci and Other Tales. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing in original, unclipped, jacket in protective sheet. Containing fifteen short stories of the humorous and strange. Jacket design by Frank Wakefield. Jacket has very light rubbing and a short (1mm) tear at tail of spine; otherwise in fine condition. Black cloth over boards with gilded lettering on the spine. Strong, solid, and clean binding. The interior is clean and clear. Overall a very fine copy. Pages:(6) 228 (1) Dimensions:7â x 5â x ¾.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1948.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, illustration by Frank Wakefield, cloth. Author's third collection of fiction from Arkham House. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1486. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-201. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Wandrei library label laid in. A sharp copy. (15587)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton.. GENIUS LOCI. Arkham House., Sauk City:, 1948.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. 3047 copies printed. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: Kathmandu Books, Winter Park, FL, U.S.A.
SMITH, Clark Ashton. GENIUS LOCI. Arkham House, 1948.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A twice-signed, copy, the year of the book's publication inscribed, and corrected copy throughout, with nine corrections in the author's hand. The inscription reads "For Don, the night after moving into the new home, sans Katzenjammer, Dec. 4th, 1948. Madam Mad No Whiskey, Dog Gone Madam Mad. Dry Shift." By explanation, CAS had met and been romancing Carolyn Jones Dorman, and moved into her home in Pacific Grove, California. Carolyn had three children from a previous marriage. CAS enjoyed the pleasures of alcohol sometimes overdoing it, but Carolyn here, was wasn't allowing it. There are nine-handwritten corrections to this copy, in addition to the author's full-signature on the half-title page. Signed copies of this title are scarce, but corrected copies are rare. Some dullness to the cloth, moderately soiled, d.j., with signs of aging, and some darkening to the spine-panel of d.j. Still a very good copy in very good d.j.
Seller: Terence McVicker, Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.