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Clark Ashton Smith. Out of Space and Time. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1942.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition in black cloth, gilt stamped spine. Collection of stories with an introductory essay by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. 1054 Copies. Laid in: stamped addressed envelope with return address from Smith dated 1919, but with no letter inside. Sauk City: Arkham House (1942), 370 pages. A VG copy with some rubbing to cloth; still strong gilt and straight spine. A clean unmarked interior with a small bookstore stamp on rear pastedown. No jacket.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME. Arkham House, [Sauk City, Wisconsin], 1942.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 1054 copies printed. The third Arkham House book. Smith's first major collection of dark fantasy tales and the first Smith book published by Arkham House. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1049. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1484. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 44. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-204. Inked design and neat date to front free end paper, light damp stain to lower page edges and to lower cloth edges, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a small closed tear and chip to upper right front corner, closed tear to lower left front corner, mild wear to the spine ends with spine panel age darkened, tanning to edges of rear panel, damp stain to the verso of the lower edge with faint bleed through at spine and lower right rear edge. (28756)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Clark Ashton Smith. Out of Space and Time. Arkham House, 1942.
Price: US$999.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. 1054 copies printed. A good copy in good dust jacket, now in new removable protective cover. Jacket is not price clipped ($3). Dust jacket has tiny chips at flap folds, with 30 mm closed tears at top and bottom between front and spine panels, and 5 mm (bottom) and 10 mm (top) closed tears between back panel and spine panel. In addition, there are 4 other small (less than 5 mm) closed tears at top of dust jacket, and mild fade to the green lettering on the spine panel, and just a bit of tanning to the edges of the rear panel and the flap folds. Black cloth binding with gold titles on the spine. Prior owners' names and dates on front free end page. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Arkham House hard cover with dust jacket, first edition, first printing August 1942, 370 pages, cover art by Hannes Bok. 8vo (5.25" x 7.5") The third Arkham House book. Smith's first major collection of dark fantasy tales and the first Smith book published by Arkham House. There are eighteen stories in this collection - all were first published between 1931-37 in pulp magazines. The majority were published in Weird Tales. Contents: The End of the Story; A Rendezvous in Averoigne; A Night in Malneant; The City of the Singing Flame; The Uncharted Isle; The Second Interment; The Double Shadow; The Chain of Aforgomon; The Dark Eidolon; The Last Hieroglyph; Sadastor; The Death of Ilalotha; The Return of the Sorcerer; The Testament of Athammaus; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan; Ubbo-Sathla; The Monster of the Prophecy; The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis; From the Crypts of Memory; The Shadows. SHIPS WITH SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION.
Seller: Basically SF Books, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1070.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Robert Hayward Barlow (1918-1951) was 13 when he started corresponding with pulp magazine writers H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. But he already had the instincts of a preservationist -- he convinced Lovecraft to stop throwing away his scrawled manuscripts after a story was published; Barlow offered to type the stories and send Lovecraft the typed copies if he could keep the autograph manuscripts. Barlow was attempting to write fantasy tales; Lovecraft -- who traveled to Florida for several extended visits -- undertook to tutor the youth in fiction writing. The two collaborated on six stories, including "The Night Ocean" (which new research has shown to be almost entirely Barlow's.) Barlow went on to write superb short stories without Lovecraft's help, including "A Dim-Remembered Story," "The Root-Gatherers," and "Return by Sunset." The older members of Lovecraft's coterie took offense when they learned he'd named young Barlow -- then 19 -- his literary executor. Barlow donated all the original materials to the John Hay Library at Brown. But Lovecraft disciples August Derleth and Donald Wandrei wanted to collect the master's stories in a book; they were not amused when Barlow published Lovecraft's commonplace book in a letterpress edition of 75 copies. They spread rumors that Barlow had pilfered books from Lovecraft's library. The macabre writer and artist Clark Ashton Smith responded by sending Barlow a note: "Please do not write me or try to communicate with me in any way. I do not wish to see you or hear from you after your conduct in regard to the estate of a late beloved friend." Barlow wrote the effect of the letter "was of cutting out my entrails with a meat cleaver," notes Paul La Farge in The New Yorker (March, 2017). He had been exiled from the literary universe that had been the focus of his life. He thought about killing himself, but instead decided to pursue an (apparently unrelated) interest in anthropology, ending up at Berkeley, where he studied under Alfred Kroeber, whose work with Ishi, the last of California's Stone Age Indians, had made him famous. Barlow's poignant memoir of Lovecraft, "The Wind That Is In the Grass" can be found in "Marginalia" (Arkham House, 1944.) In 1942, when Barlow was finishing up his degree at Berkeley, he wrote "Poems for a Competition," which won both the 26th Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize for the best unpublished verse submitted by an undergraduate, AND the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Prize. After accepting a teaching position at the City College of Mexico, where he became a noted expert on the Nahuatl language and was appointed head of the Anthropology Department, he produced a second book of verse, "View from a Hill" (1947.) Lovecraft biographer S.T. Joshi describes both volumes as "scintillating." But where are they? Afraid of being outed as a homosexual by a disgruntled student (he probably would have lost his job & could even have been prosecuted), Barlow committed suicide in 1951. Though Barlow wrote numerous learned papers, and the book "The Extent of the Empire of the Culhua Mexico" (U. of Calif., 1949), the only books of general interest in his known bibliography are the two slim volumes of verse, "Poems for a Competition" (Fugitive Press, 1942) and "View from a Hill" (Azcapotzalco, 1947). Look for them, and all you'll learn is that "their entire contents are reprinted in 'Eyes of the God,'" a 2002 anthology. Of the originals, no trace. Except that two copies of "Poems for a Competition," a 16-page octavo on quality paper in brown wraps, turn out to have been neatly hand-taped into boards and stored away in the archives of the University of California, stamped "July 31, 1942," with the words "UNIV OF CALIFORNIA" neatly hole-punched to the title pages. These were archival copies, not lending copies; they bear no card-holders or date due slips. This one is labeled "Cop. 2." In some years of looking, it's the only original we've ever found. Here reduced from $4,500.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 370 pages. In Very Good condition, with Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with tan lettering. Dust jacket shows age toning, chipping to head and tail of spine, and rubbing to edges. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering. Price uncut: "$3.00" to top right-hand corner of front flap. Black cloth boards show light shelf wear overall with tear to top left-hand corner of back cover at hinge, red vertical pen mark underneath tear at hinge, bumping to corners and head and tail of spine, rubbing to edges and boards slightly cocked and shaken (but sturdy). Text block shows light age toning to interior and end pages, foxing to top edges, slight ink staining to bottom edges, and ownership marking penned to front paste down. LP Consignment. Shelved in Case 8. Arkham House's third published book, issued in a printing of 1,054 copies. 1283621. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME. Arkham House, 1942.
Price: US$1390.22 + shipping
Description: OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, Arkham House, 1942, first edition, age toning to the t.p.e.'s, else a tight, bright, vg+ copy in a bright vg Hannes Bok dust-wrapper save for some light wear and tear to the extremities of the bit lightened dust-wrapper spine and three short closed tears to the rear dust-wrapper panel. 1/1,054 copies. The 4th Arkham House title.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME. Arkham House, 1942.
Price: US$2422.75 + shipping
Description: OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, Arkham House, 1942, first edition, base of spine at lower left corner gently bumped, else a tight, fine copy in a near fine bright dust-wrapper save for some light dust-soiling to the rear dust-wrapper panel and a bit of touch up to the base of the dust-wrapper spine. 1/1,054 copies. Laid into this volume are a black and white photo of Clark Ashton Smith and Emil Petaja (unpublished ???) as standing full figures in a rural setting (probably taken in the mid 1950's) and an envelope dated 1919 addressed to fellow poet and Lovecraftian Samuel Loveman in Smith's hand as well as having Smith's holograhic signature and return mail address at the upper left corner of this same envelope. All in all, a nice little package.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1942.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 1054 copies printed. The third Arkham House book. Smith's first major collection of dark fantasy tales and the first Smith book published by Arkham House. Donald Wandrei library label laid in. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-182. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #1484. Jones and Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #44. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear to the upper right corner of the front panel (4 mm) and some fade to the green lettering of the spine panel, slight age toning to the edges of the rear panel. A sharp, superior copy. (17365)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME. Arkham House, [Sauk City, Wisconsin], 1942.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1054 copies printed. The third Arkham House book. Smith's first major collection of dark fantasy tales and the first Smith book published by Arkham House. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1049. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1484. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 44. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-204. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with tiny 4 mm closed tear at the upper right corner of the front panel and mild fade to the green lettering on the spine panel, and just a bit of tanning to the edges of the rear panel. A sharp, superior copy. Donald Wandrei library label laid in. (#155004)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME. Arkham House, [Sauk City, Wisconsin], 1942.
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. A contemporary presentation copy with signed inscription by Smith to Samuel Loveman on the front free endpaper: "For Sam, with / lasting affection, / from Clark / Aug. 31st, 1942." 1054 copies printed. The third Arkham House book. Smith's first major collection of dark fantasy tales and the first Smith book published by Arkham House. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1049. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1484. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 44. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-204. Mild bruises to lower corners (more inward curls than bumps), tiny nick to cloth at bottom edge of rear panel, faint, tiny stain to fore-edge of text block, a very good copy in good dust jacket with wear, closed tears and shallow chipping along top and bottom edges, mostly spine ends and corners, and age-darkening along spine fold and to spine panel. An important association copy. This book is rarely found signed by Smith. (#155513)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME. Arkham House, 1942.
Price: US$4805.50 + shipping
Description: OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, Arkham House, 1942, first edition, a vg/vg+ copy in a bright vg Hannes Bok dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. INSCRIBED by the author to Robert E. Howard enthusiast, publisher and Literary Executor, Glenn Lord. Obviously, a most desirable copy. 1/1,054 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Smith, Clark Ashton. OUT OF SPACE AND TIME *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***. Arkham House, 1942.
Price: US$5864.50 + shipping
Description: *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, Arkham House, 1942, first edition, fine in bright near fine Hannes Bok dust-wrapper save for a one inch long closed tear secured with tape on the verso near the base of each of the front dust-wrapper panel folds. INSCRIBED by the author and dated 1944 to F. Lee Baldwin, a member of the Lovecraft circle. Nice association thus. Obviously, a most desirable copy. 1/1,054 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.