Author: SMITH, CLARK ASHTON
Title: Other Dimensions
Description: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1970. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited to 3000 copies (actually 3144 copies). This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright. Condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Most of Smith's weird fiction falls into four series set variously in Hyperborea, Poseidonis, Averoigne and Zothique. Hyperborea, which is a lost continent of the Miocene period, and Poseidonis, which is a remnant of Atlantis, are much the same, with a magical culture characterized by bizarreness, cruelty, death and postmortem horrors. Averoigne is Smith's version of pre-modern France, comparable to James Branch Cabell's Poictesme. Zothique exists millions of years in the future. It is "the last continent of earth, when the sun is dim and tarnished". These tales have been compared to the Dying Earth sequence of Jack Vance. In 1933 Smith began corresponding with Robert E. Howard, the Texan creator of Conan the Barbarian. From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met. The writer of oriental fantasies E. Hoffmann Price is the only man known to have met all three in the flesh." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: Horror Clark Ashton Smith Short Stories Macabre Fiction Arkham House Limited Editions
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Title: Other Dimensions
Description: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1970. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited to 3000 copies (actually 3144 copies). This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright. Condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Most of Smith's weird fiction falls into four series set variously in Hyperborea, Poseidonis, Averoigne and Zothique. Hyperborea, which is a lost continent of the Miocene period, and Poseidonis, which is a remnant of Atlantis, are much the same, with a magical culture characterized by bizarreness, cruelty, death and postmortem horrors. Averoigne is Smith's version of pre-modern France, comparable to James Branch Cabell's Poictesme. Zothique exists millions of years in the future. It is "the last continent of earth, when the sun is dim and tarnished". These tales have been compared to the Dying Earth sequence of Jack Vance. In 1933 Smith began corresponding with Robert E. Howard, the Texan creator of Conan the Barbarian. From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met. The writer of oriental fantasies E. Hoffmann Price is the only man known to have met all three in the flesh." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: Horror Clark Ashton Smith Short Stories Macabre Fiction Arkham House Limited Editions
Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 48089
- Book number: 48089
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