Steve Behrends Editors (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition Thus. Brown/beige pictorial wraps with trace edgewear. Stapled binding sound, interior clean. Not illustrated. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 32 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has light wave from improper storage but has flattened out nicely in our book press, appears unread. No bumps, creases, owner marking of any kind or other depredations.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Lt. pink pictorial wraps w/black illustration in relief, lt. shelf wear. Pages fine. Saddle-stitch bind, fine. Rare final issue. A collection of fantastic articles on Ashton Clark Smith, a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith was one of "the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. It has been said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." He was a member of the Lovecraft circle, and Smith's literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. His work is marked chiefly by an extraordinarily wide and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor.Vintage horror arkham weirdness. 36 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Wilson, Gahan (Cover Art) (illustrator).…