THE DARK CHATEAU AND OTHER POEMS
$750 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 563 copies printed. A selection of forty poems, ably showing off his brand of the fantastic, which was heavily influenced by the French Decadents. His sixth collection of poems and the first of three issued by Arkham House. Lyric poetry offered Smith as it did Lovecraft and, arguably Poe, as well a purer form for the expression of his chief literary
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