Songs and Sonnets Atlantean
Publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. First Edition.
Notes: Poems and short prose pieces influenced by Clark Ashton Smith.
2045 copies. xxx, 135, [3] pages. Cover design by Gordon R. Barnett.
Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 117; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 122. Jaffrey cites two variants, one with and one without the "limitation page." I assume he means the colophon where the number of copies ordered is noted.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first and only Arkham House printing; colophon present). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With the Lovecraft-inspired letterpress bookplate of the James Strand estate on the front pastedown.
This copy came from the important Arkham House collection assembled by James Strand of Portland, Oregon. After his death, in August 2023, his house was looted and most of his books were stolen. Some were subsequently recovered by the FBI. This book was among those not taken by thieves.
Item No: #286110
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