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“The Star-Treader and Other Poems” by Clark Ashton Smith (A.M. Robertson, 1912, 1st edition, 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" original tan boards with decorative gilt stamping, title page printed in black and red). Good condition with no dust jacket. The author’s first book, fifty-five poems, 100 pages. In this time period it was common practice for publishers to only bind up as many copies as they had orders for, then sit on the printed sheets until they got enough orders to bind up another batch of copies. Hence the variant bindings of the author's first book (next bindings were gray or blue paper-covered boards). Of the original 2000 copy edition 1000 were lost due to fire. CONDITION: Good/very good with age tanned spine and some edge browning; light bump at base of back cover spine; (1920) gift inscription on first free end paper (see photo); two poems checked-marked with a small “X” next to the titles on the Contents Page, and those two poems (“Nero” and “Ode to the Abyss”) have diagonal slash “/” mark annotations (probably for reading aloud – see page 18 scan for an example) and one other poem, “The Medusa” also has slash mark annotations. Smith is considered one of the big three of “Weird Tales” along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft and was a member of the H. P. Lovecraft circle. Please see our other auctions for rarely offered Arkham House, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long and A. Merritt material (including “Fanciful Tales of Time and Space” #1) plus “Weird Tales” and “Boys’ Friend Library” pulp magazines and happy to combine postage on multiple wins. ABOUT US: We've had our store, Hollywood Movie Posters (located in Hollywood, California) for over 40 years. Many of you may be familiar with us because of our 1992 book, "Graven Images: The Best of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Film Art from the Collection of Ronald V. Borst". If you are in the Los Angeles area, you're welcome to visit our store plus by special arrangement, you can pick up auction wins personally at our store which is open 3 days a week (Friday, Saturday and Monday) from 1:30pm to 5:00pm.. Otherwise, we are happy to combine multiple wins when shipping. Thanks for looking and good luck bidding! --Ronald V. Borst & Margaret Borst TERMS: Please remit payment no later than 5 days from date of Invoice (unless other arrangements were made prior to end of auction) and if you’ve won multiple items please wait for us to send a combined Invoice. Tax will be calculated and added automatically by eBay based on State tax rates. Send your payment via methods approved by eBay through their managed payments program. USA: We strive to ship the following business day after receipt of cleared payment using the U.S. Postal Service which includes Delivery Confirmation. International: NO International shipping at this time. Upon receipt of your win, if you are not 100% happy (for any reason) please contact us BEFORE leaving negative or neutral feedback so we can work to resolve any problem.