[Rarebooks] FS: Clark Ashton Smith's First Collection of Stories, INSCRIBED, 1933, price greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $450,      Now $300

SMITH, Clark Ashton. THE DOUBLE SHADOW AND OTHER FANTASIES. [Auburn, 
CA]: [Auburn Journal Print], [1933]. First Edition. Tall octavo (8-1/2" 
x 11-1/2") in original printed gray wraps. An early title by Smith, and 
his first short story collection, one of 1000 copies privately printed. 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the Contents page: "Dear Allen Lucy:/I hope you 
will/enjoy some of these fantasties. [sic]/Cordially,/June 13th, 1933. 
Clark Ashton Smith." Several pencil corrections in the text by the 
author and a brief allusion to Poe which appears also to be in the 
author's hand. Laid in is a small sheet of contemporary paper with a 
symbolic shorthand text in ink in an unknown hand within a triangle 
shape. Also laid in is a 1987 invoice for the book from a bookseller. 
Fair amount of wrinkling to covers. Still Very Good. (#011179)        
$300.00

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