TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY by Smith, Clark Ashton - 1964

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964. 256 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; gray endpapers. Dustjacket art by Frank Utpatel. Lightly rubbed at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy and horror, Clark Ashton Smith was one of H. P. Lovecraft's closest friends, a member of the Lovecraft Circle and one of the top three Weird Tales writers, along with Lovecraft, of course, and Robert E. Howard. This story collection contains: Clark Ashton Smith: A Memoir by E. Hoffmann Price; Master of the Asteroid; The Seed from the Sepulcher; The Root of Ampoi; The Immortals of Mercury; Murder in the Fourth Dimension; Seedling of Mars; The Maker of Gargoyles; The Great God Awto; Mother of Toads; The Tomb Spawn; Schizoid Creator; Symposium of the Gorgon; The Theft of Thirty-nine Girdles; and Morthylla.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Frank Utpatel;. 8vo.