Lovely fragile things...
Today Sarah's 3rd (wedding) anniversary present to me showed up in the mail. The anniv doesn't fall till June 11th
but we decided to get stuff early. My gift to Sarah was a whole mess of wool, that I am told is quite good, and will be miraculously transmogrified into all manner of stick magicky things, so presents will continue to be created from this weeks from now. My present (by definition the thing that Sarah empowered me to buy) Is a signed Clark Ashton Smith chapbook from 1933 "The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies", here's an image of the envelope addy panel that was laid in. http://www.flickr.com/photos/46961281@N00/2514725533/ The cb is inscribed "For W. H. Miller Jr- best regards and wishes of Clark Ashton Smith June 9th 1936" (just 2 days before Smith's friend Robert E. Howard committed suicide). It's largish (larger than say a pulp) with a plain gray stiff cover with an elegant device on the cover between the tittle and CAS's name. There are 6 stories, including the tittle piece, crammed very tightly into it's 30 stapled pages. I am always so amazed at how fragile little pretties like this survive, this was not something expected to last that long. There were 1000 copies printed at the time, but that's 1000 crappy lil' (construction not contents) chapbook copies as opposed to say somewhere between 1500 and 3000 hard covered Arkham house copies, so wow!
Stay eldritch
GT
but we decided to get stuff early. My gift to Sarah was a whole mess of wool, that I am told is quite good, and will be miraculously transmogrified into all manner of stick magicky things, so presents will continue to be created from this weeks from now. My present (by definition the thing that Sarah empowered me to buy) Is a signed Clark Ashton Smith chapbook from 1933 "The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies", here's an image of the envelope addy panel that was laid in. http://www.flickr.com/photos/46961281@N00/2514725533/ The cb is inscribed "For W. H. Miller Jr- best regards and wishes of Clark Ashton Smith June 9th 1936" (just 2 days before Smith's friend Robert E. Howard committed suicide). It's largish (larger than say a pulp) with a plain gray stiff cover with an elegant device on the cover between the tittle and CAS's name. There are 6 stories, including the tittle piece, crammed very tightly into it's 30 stapled pages. I am always so amazed at how fragile little pretties like this survive, this was not something expected to last that long. There were 1000 copies printed at the time, but that's 1000 crappy lil' (construction not contents) chapbook copies as opposed to say somewhere between 1500 and 3000 hard covered Arkham house copies, so wow!
Stay eldritch
GT