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Smith , Clark Ashton.. Lost Worlds.. Arkham House, WI., 1944.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition , first printing , 1944 , WI. A very good book in the original binding. Clean with contents solid. Without the dust jacket. Classic horror by Smith.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, 1944.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 1st printing of this collection. 7.5x5.5", 419 pp. Bumped corner, pages yellowed, else clean, solid, VG in Good dj with light chipping and yellowed spine.
Seller: Aardvark Book Depot, Shorewood, WI, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. LOST WORLDS. Arkham House, 1944.
Price: US$232.00 + shipping
Description: LOST WORLDS, Arkham House, 1944, first edition, upper corner tips bumped (noticable in the text block), slight wear to the head of the spine, else about vg in near vg dust-wrapper with some wear and tear. 1/2,043 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, 1944.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, one of 2,000 copies bound in black cloth with gold spine lettering. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. There is a mild bump to the rear cover's upper right corner near the spine. The front cover has a rub at its lower edge. Light dusting to the top edge of page block else content is fine. The dust jacket has rubs and tiny chips to its corners and the spine tips. Rubbing to the folds. Tanning to the spine and dust soiling to the rear panel.
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. LOST WORLDS. Arkham House, 1944.
Price: US$394.40 + shipping
Description: LOST WORLDS, Arkham House, 1944, first edition, age toning to the page edges, else a tight, bright vg+ copy in a vg dust-wrapper exhibiting some of the author/artist's sculptures. 1/2,043 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. LOST WORLDS. Arkham House, 1944.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Smith's second collection from Arkham. 2043 copies printed. Corners are very slightly bumped. DJ is price clipped and mildly faded on the spine and back panel and edges. There is light wear to one corner and the heel of the spine of the dj. A very decent copy of an uncommon book.
Seller: Tim's Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. LOST WORLDS. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Smith's second Arkham House collection limited to only 2043 copies. Small dulled patch to black cloth at head of spine with little bleed to reverse of the dust wrapper else nice and fresh with no darkening to the end papers. Dust wrapper illustrated with photos of Smith sculptures; spine titles little tanned else fine.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1944.
Price: US$485.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in black cloth, gilt stamped spine, jacket art by Burt Trimpey. 2nd collection of Smith 's stories - 23 stories. 2043 Copies. Laid in: stamped addressed envelope with return address from Smith dated 1915 or 1916, but with no letter inside. Sauk City: Arkham House (1944), 419 pages. A Fine copy with bright gilt titling, clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name Paul W. Smith on f.f.e. Tight straight binding, soft spine ends. Good unclipped ($3.00) jacket has wear and rubbing, sun faded spine, small chips/tears at tips and extremities.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H. P.. Marginalia [Association Copy]. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.
Price: US$486.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: S. T. Joshi's copy of Marginalia with his signature on the rear paste down. This copy has significant cosmetic wear. The binding is solid and pages are clean. The titles have faded from the cloth binding. spine ends are frayed and there is some soiling to the covers. Jacket is torn and shipped all around. A unique copy. Marginalia was collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. 1944. pp. x., 377. $3.00. 2035 copies. The jacket design is a reproduction of Virgil Finlay's illustration for H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shunned House," from Weird Tales, October 1937. Derleth first introduced Marginalia on the back of Clark Ashton Smith's book Lost World published by Arkham House the same year. He writes that "this third book by the late H.P. Lovecraft is one of many surprises. Admittedly a "loose ends" book, it contains early prose by the master, certain ghost-written pieces, revisions, and essays, together with fragments. Here are The Thing in the Moonlight, Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, Medusa's Coil; here are appreciations of H.P.L. by Frank Belknap Long and others; there are photographs of Lovecraft, his study, his script, his drawings, making Marginalia an associational item you cannot afford to be without. CONTENTS: ï Foreword by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei ï Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by Houdini ï Medusa's Coil by Zealia Brown (Reed) Bishop ï Winged Death by Hazel Heald ï The Man of Stone by Hazel Heald ï Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction ï Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction ï Lord Dunsany and His Work ï Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms ï Some Backgrounds of Fairyland ï Some Causes of Self-Immolation ï A Guide to Charleston by South Carolina ï Observations on Several Parts of North America ï The Beast in the Cave ï The Transition of Juan Romero ï Azathoth ï The Book ï The Descendant ï The Very Old Folk ï The Thing in the Moonlight ï Two Comments ï His Own Most Fantastic Creation by Winfield Townley Scott ï Some Random Memories of H. P. L. by Frank Belknap Long ï H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation by T. 0. Mabbott ï The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H.P. Lovecraft in Florida by R.H. Barlow ï Lovecraft and Science by Kenneth Sterling ï Lovecraft as a Formative Influence by August Derleth ï The Dweller in Darkness by Donald Wandrei ï To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Clark Ashton Smith ï H. P. L. by Henry Kuttner ï Lost Dream by Emil Petaja ï To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Francis Flagg ï H.P. Lovecraft by Frank Belknap Long ï Elegy: In Providence the Spring by August Derleth ï For the Outsider: H.P. Lovecraft by Charles E. White ï In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft by Richard Ely Morse with illustrations, photographs, and drawings by Lovecraft with a reproduction of Lament for H. P. L. by Alfred Galpin.
Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lost Worlds by Clark Ashton Smith (First Edition) Tight copy except a few minor bumps along bottom. Previous owner's stamp to front pastedown. Sharp except for minor edgewear. Mild fading. Clear protective cover. Not price-clipped. First edition. Original $3.00 price point. 2043 copies printed. 419 pages. Contains tales from the Hyperborea, Atlantis, Averoigne, Zothique and Xiccarph story cycles. Black cloth boards. Gilt on spine.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Lost Worlds by Clark Ashton Smith (First Edition) Minor edge wear. Small "Crime Book Center" Chicago bookseller ticket to pastedown. Minor rubbing to the dust jacket extremities, slightly sunned spine and flaps. Original $3.00 price intact on flap. Clear protective cover. 2000 copies printed, stated (reportedly 2043 copies actually). Second Arkham House collection of the author's work.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 2043 copies printed. 1 vols. 8vo. Classic collection of Smith's science fiction and fantasy, including tales of Averoigne, Hyperborea, Atlantis, and more. The companion to his 1942 Arkham House collection, Out of Space and Time. Clark's story, "The Plutonian Drug", first published in Amazing Stories in 1934, is notable for employing the name "plutonium" for an imaginary drug from Pluto of startling effects, several years in advance of the discovery of the radioactive element that now bears the name. Attractive copy of a cornerstone work. Currey 2002 p. 368; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion 7; Tymn, Horror Literature 4-202 Black cloth. Some minor shelfwear, near fine in very good dust jacket illustrated with photos of Smith's sculpture by E. Burt Trimpey (unclipped, some rubbing to edges of front panel, spine panel with small scuffs at ends, yellowing at folds) First edition, one of 2043 copies printed.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lovecraft, H. P.. Marginalia. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944.
Price: US$648.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. 1944. pp. x., 377. $3.00. 2035 copies. The jacket design is a reproduction of Virgil Finlay's illustration for H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shunned House," from Weird Tales, October 1937. Derleth first introduced Marginalia on the back of Clark Ashton Smith's book Lost World published by Arkham House the same year. He writes that "this third book by the late H.P. Lovecraft is one of many surprises. Admittedly a "loose ends" book, it contains early prose by the master, certain ghost-written pieces, revisions, and essays, together with fragments. Here are The Thing in the Moonlight, Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, Medusa's Coil; here are appreciations of H.P.L. by Frank Belknap Long and others; there are photographs of Lovecraft, his study, his script, his drawings, making Marginalia an associational item you cannot afford to be without. CONTENTS: ï Foreword by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei ï Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by Houdini ï Medusa's Coil by Zealia Brown (Reed) Bishop ï Winged Death by Hazel Heald ï The Man of Stone by Hazel Heald ï Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction ï Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction ï Lord Dunsany and His Work ï Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms ï Some Backgrounds of Fairyland ï Some Causes of Self-Immolation ï A Guide to Charleston by South Carolina ï Observations on Several Parts of North America ï The Beast in the Cave ï The Transition of Juan Romero ï Azathoth ï The Book ï The Descendant ï The Very Old Folk ï The Thing in the Moonlight ï Two Comments ï His Own Most Fantastic Creation by Winfield Townley Scott ï Some Random Memories of H. P. L. by Frank Belknap Long ï H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation by T. 0. Mabbott ï The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H.P. Lovecraft in Florida by R.H. Barlow ï Lovecraft and Science by Kenneth Sterling ï Lovecraft as a Formative Influence by August Derleth ï The Dweller in Darkness by Donald Wandrei ï To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Clark Ashton Smith ï H. P. L. by Henry Kuttner ï Lost Dream by Emil Petaja ï To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Francis Flagg ï H.P. Lovecraft by Frank Belknap Long ï Elegy: In Providence the Spring by August Derleth ï For the Outsider: H.P. Lovecraft by Charles E. White ï In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft by Richard Ely Morse with illustrations, photographs, and drawings by Lovecraft with a reproduction of Lament for H. P. L. by Alfred Galpin.
Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1944.
Price: US$725.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 8vo., 419pp. Beautiful First Printing of this collection of 15 stories, Smith's second Arkham anthology. One of only 2043 copies printed, (Jaffery, p.18). Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a touch of softness to the heel cloth. Remarkably well-preserved. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper, ($3.00), has very light toning to edges and spine panel as is quite common but less than most. Fresh and bright with no creasing chipping or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, 1944.
Price: US$741.77 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo, cloth. 2043 copies printed. The second collection of Smith's short fiction to be published by Arkham House. 'The Seven Geases', and two tales of Zothique: 'The Empire of the Necromancers' and 'Necromancy in Naat. A fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket with pages not yellowed or toned. No inscriptions square spine and corners no inscriptions. A better copy not to be found.
Seller: Trinity Books, Boyle, ROSCO, Ireland
Smith, Clark Ashton. LOST WORLDS. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1944.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 2043 copies printed. The second collection of Smith's short fiction to be published by Arkham House. "Equally varied and colorful material can be found in Lost Worlds, which includes the best of Smith's Hyperborean grotesques, 'The Seven Geases', and two of the nastiest tales of Zothique: 'The Empire of the Necromancers' and 'Necromancy in Naat.'" -Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-182. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1485. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-202. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, age tanning to spine panel and along edges of rear panel and flaps. (21756)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1944.
Price: US$833.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first UK edition of this collection of short science fiction and horror stories from Clark Ashton Smith. Including 'The Empire of the Necromancers', 'The Holiness of Azedarac', 'The Maze of Maal Dweb' and many others. With a bookseller's label to the front pastedown. In a black cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with just some light shelfwear. Dustwrapper is sound, though with some edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, and quite clean, with just a few instances of foxing. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Smith, Clark Ashton. LOST WORLDS. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1944.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 2043 copies printed. The second collection of Smith's short fiction to be published by Arkham House. "Equally varied and colorful material can be found in Lost Worlds, which includes the best of Smith's Hyperborean grotesques, 'The Seven Geases', and two of the nastiest tales of Zothique: 'The Empire of the Necromancers' and 'Necromancy in Naat.'" -Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-182. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1485. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-202. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a few rubs to the lower front panel edges, usual toning to rear panel and flap edges, toning to spine panel. A nice copy. (29312)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1944.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Smith on a laid-in envelope addressed to his long-time correspondent Samuel Loveman. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly rubbed at the edges, toned at the back panel. Black buckram, bumped at the top corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, faint stains at the edges, clean internally. The empty envelope is written in Smith's hand with his signature and address in the upper-left. Smith and Loveman were friends and correspondents between 1913 and 1941. The work "Born under Saturn: The Letters of Samuel Loveman and Clark Ashton Smith" by Joshi and Schultz presents an annotated history of their correspondence.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.