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LOST WORLDS
by Smith, Clark Ashton
- Used
- first
- Condition
- 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 edg
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944. First edition. 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). 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.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29312
- Title
- LOST WORLDS
- Author
- Smith, Clark Ashton
- Book Condition
- Used - 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 edg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Fantasy . Horror . SC
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2017
Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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