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SMITH, Clark Ashton (1893–1961). Out of Space and Time. [Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1942.
8vo. Original black cloth, gilt–lettered spine; original dust jacket (partially clipped–price, spine gently sunned, some very light edgewear). Provenance: Richard Manney (book label), one of the most famous book collectors of the 20th century who was known for the best examples on the market. A selection of his library was sold at Sotheby’s in 1991, amassing a total of over $3.9m which was the first multimillion–dollar library assembled in the 1980s to come up for auction.
FIRST EDITION of Smith’s first major collection of stories and the third book published by Arkham House that is now “extremely difficult to obtain” (Jaffery). Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 1484; Currey, p. 453; Jaffery 3.