GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES
by Smith, Clark Ashton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Lower corners bumped else a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild age tanning to spine panel and slight crease to bas
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1948. First edition. Lower corners bumped else a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild age tanning to spine panel and slight crease to base of spine panel (14978). Octavo, cloth. The author's third collection of fiction from Arkham House. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1486. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-201. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182.
Synopsis
Genius Loci and Other Tales is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by author Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1948 and was the author's third book published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 3,047 copies. The stories were written between 1930 and 1935. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne and Zothique.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14978
- Title
- GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES
- Author
- Smith, Clark Ashton
- Book Condition
- Used - Lower corners bumped else a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild age tanning to spine panel and slight crease to bas
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Horror . SC
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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