Odes and Sonnets

by Clark Ashton Smith

$500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1918. Slim 4to. 30 pages. Blue-grey boards, tan muslin backstrip with printed paper label. Backstrip label browned, light diagonal mark on upper board, spotting to lower board, contents clean and bright. Very good copy of a fragile book, hard to find in acceptable condition. Bookplate of Rosa Walter Meertief. § First edition, copy #242 of 300 copies, with a preface by George Sterling. The very scarce second book of the

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