I'm seeking help with the Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography




I need a listing of the contents of the following titles (yes I have googled for them all with no luck).


1914
A Collection of Verse by California Poets. From 1849 to 1915
-Augustin S. Macdonold
A.M Robertson, Sna Fransisco, Ca

1917
Goldetn Songs of the Golden State
- Marguerite Wilkinson
A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, Il

1928
California State Series. Sixth Year Literature Reader
- LeRoy E. Armstrong
11th edition California State Printing Office

1931
The Book of American Poetry
- Markham, Edwin (ed.)
Brace Harcourt, 1st Printing US

1932
California Poets : An Anthology of 224 Contemporaries
- ??? (ed.)
Harrison, H/B, 1st Printing US

1933
Keep on the Light
- Christine Campbell (ed.)
Selwyn & Blount, H/B, 1st Printing UK

1946
And the Darkness Falls
- Boris Karloff (ed.)
World Publishing, H/B, 1st Printing US

1947
Tales of the Undead
- Elinore Blaisdell (ed.)
Thomas Y. Cromwell, H/B, 1st Printing US

1948
Strange Ports of Call
- August Derleth (ed.)
Pellegrini & Cudahy, H/B, 1st Printing US

Strange Tales of the Mysterious and Supernatural
- ??? (ed.)
?publisher?, ?format?, 1st Printing US

1949
My Best Science Fiction Story As Selected By 25 Outstanding Authors. Edited by Leo Margulies am Oscar J. Friend
Merlin Press Inc., New York October 1949.

1950
My Best Science Fiction Story
- Leo Margulies and Oscar J. Friend (ed.)
Merlin Press, H/B, 1st Printing US

1954
Beachheads In Space. Stories On A Theme In Science-Fiction.
Edited by August Derleth. Pellegrini & Cudahy
New York, September 1952. English edition: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, May 1954.

1959
The Macabre Reader
- D. Wollheim (ed.)
Ace, P/B, 1st Printing US

1963
Swords & Sorcery
- L. Sprague de Camp (ed.)
Pyramid Books, P/B, 1st Printing US

1965
Worlds of Weird
- Leo Marguiles (ed.)
Pyramid, P/B, 1st Printing US

The Unhumans. Paperback.
Edited by Marvin Allen Karp
Popular Library, New York, (c. October)


1967
A Feast of Blood
- Charles M. Collins (ed.)
Avon, 2nd Printing US

Nouvelles Histoires d'Outre-Monde
- Jacques Papy (ed.)
Casterman, 1st Printing France

1969
The Second Avon Fantasy Reader
- George Ernsberger & Donald A. Wollheim (ed.)
Avon Books, P/B, 1st Printing US

1970
The Pulps : Fifty Years of American Pop Culture
- Tony Goodstone (ed.)
Chelsea House, H/B, 1st Printing US


1971
The Spawn of Cthulhu : H. P. Lovecraft & Others
- Lin Carter (ed.)
Ballantine Books, P/B, 1st Printing US


1972
Eight Strange Tales
- Vic Ghidalia (ed.)
Fawcett Gold Medal Book, P/B, 1st Printing US

Haunting And Horrors: Ten Grisly TalesNorton
Alden H. (Editor)
Berkley X1674, 1972. Paperback. 6th printing

1973
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 1; HP Lovecraft & Others]
- August Derleth (ed.)
Ballantine Books, P/B, 3rd Printing US

1974
Gooseflesh!
- Vic Ghidalia (ed.)
Manor Books Inc., P/B, ??

1975
The Ancient Mysteries Reader
- Peter Haining (ed.)
Victor Gollancz, H/B, 1st Printing UK

The Ancient Mysteries Reader
- Peter Haining (ed.)
Doubleday, H/B, 1st Printing US

Christopher Lee's "X" Certificate No. 1
- Christopher Lee & Michael Parry (ed.)
W.H. Allen, P/B, 1st Printing US

1976
The Pulps : Fifty Years of American Pop Culture
- Tony Goodstone (ed.)
Bonanza Books, H/B, 2nd Printing US

Weird Tales: A Facsimile Selection from the World's Greatest Fantasy Magazine
- Peter Haining (ed.)
Neville Spearman, H/B, 1st Printing UK

1978
Histoires anglo-saxonnes de vampires
- ??? (ed.)
Librairie des Champs-Elysées, 1st Printing France

1980
The Pulps : Fifty Years of American Pop Culture
- Tony Goodstone (ed.)
Chelsea House, P/B, 3rd Printing US

Weird Tales 2
- Lin Carter (ed.)
Zebra Books, P/B, 1st Printing US


1981
Les Grands Contes Fantastiques
Librairie des Champs-Elysees, 1st Printing France

1988
Weird Tales: 32 Unearthly Terrors
- Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg & Robert Weinberg (ed.)
Crown/Bonanza Books, H/B, 1st Printing US


1990
Weird Tales: A Facsimile Selection from the World's Greatest Fantasy Magazine
- Peter Haining (ed.)
Xanadu, H/B, 2nd Printing UK

Weird Tales: A Facsimile Selection from the World's Greatest Fantasy Magazine
- Peter Haining (ed.)
Carroll & Graf, H/B, 1st Printing US

1998
Das grosse Lesebuch der klassischen Fantasy
Korber, Joachim; editor.
ISBN:3442248183 Munich: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1998, Munich, 1998. First Printing. Text in German.


Theses are all anthologies that contain the works of CAS.

I know it's quite a long list, but the list of contents I do have is several times longer. I have searched for each title on more than one occasion, and while I'm proberbly wrong in a couple of cases most of theses do no have listings on the net so i need the help of people who may own the titles.


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 28 Feb 06 | 01:30PM by Boyd.

Boyd, I have the one mentioned elswhere - but I may also still have
California Poets - one of those books you listed has Clark under his pseudonym, Timeus Gaylord - for those who don't already know this, the Timeus was his father's first name, and Gaylord his mother's maiden name.
Also for those who might not have run across it, The Timeus is Plato's
radical dialogue which contradicts most of his other stuff, and is where Atlantis is mentioned.
Dr. F

ps - I will try to get some contents to you,perhaps a piece at a time.

Boyd, you just need the table of contents?

I was surprised after looking at your list of titles, that it does not seem to include the Panther paperback editions from the 1970's. I own this collection. Were they left out because these ones were poorer in quality or already included in other compilations?

Julian L Hawksworth

NightHalo: Just the contents, follow the links to the bibliography to see how they are used.

Raven10: Look at the links provided they are the anthologies not already in the bibliography.

For starters:

1946
And the Darkness Falls
- Boris Karloff (ed.)
World Publishing, H/B, 1st Printing US

Contains: "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" (short story) 8 pgs by Clark A. Smith

Full contents list, please look at the bibliography.

I did look at the bibliography but chance would have it that it was a short story which had no "full contents."

Anyway, I will go pull that book out of the library again tomorrow and give you a list of all the authors and stories which are included in it. Please help me help you if this is wrong.

In two days a few other books will arrive from the NLRF.

Note: Please ignore the above about full-contents, I was going in circles(to other CAS books, hence my confusion).


I was able to find this tonight, if you need more details let me know:

1947
Tales of the Undead
- Elinore Blaisdell (ed.)
Thomas Y. Cromwell, H/B, 1st Printing US

"Carmilla" by J.S. Le Fanu.
"Brother Lucifer" by C.W. Whipple
"The Metronome" by A.W. Derleth
"Uncanonized" by Seabury Quinn
"The Feast in the Abbey" by Robert Bloch
"Clay-Shuttered Doors by Helen R. Hull
"Amour Dure" by Vernon Lee
"School for the Unspeakables" by M.W. Wellman
"The Adventure of the German Student" by Washington Irving
The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft
"Second Night Out" by F.B. Long
"Clarimonde" by Theophile Gautier
"The Seed from the Sepulcher" by C.A. Smith
"For the Blood is the Life" by F.M. Crawford
"The Story of Ming-Y by Lafcadio Hearn
"The Quick and the Dead" by Vincent Starrett
"Satan's Circus" by Eleanor Smith
"Miss Mary Pask" by Edith Wharton
"Septima" by Marcel Schwob
"Count Magnus" by M.R. James
"And He Shall Sing ..." by H.R. Wakefield
"Doom of the House of Duryea" by Earl Peirce
"The Room in the Tower" by E.F. Benson




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 1 Mar 06 | 10:04PM by NightHalo.

Thanks for that, probably best to send me any more lists of the forum

thanks,
B.

Okay I just sent you Strange Ports of Call's bibliography.

The Macabre edited by Donald Wollheim 1959 Ace #D-353

Contents:

Edited by Donald A. Wollheim

The Crawling Horror by Thorp McClusky

The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch

In Amundsen's Tent by John Martin Leahy

The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft

The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke

It Will Grow on You by Donald Wandrei

The Hunters from Beyond by Clark Ashton Smith

The Curse of the Yig by Zealia Brown Bishop

The Cairn on the Headland by Robert E. Howard

The Trap by Henry S. Whitehead

I'm curious about your operating premise. Since the bibliography concerns CAS, what's the importance of knowing what else is printed in an anthology other than the CAS work?

I've seen hundreds of bibliographies, but never one that lists, with regard to the subject-author's appearances in anthologies, the works of other writers. The contents list for some of the California poetry anthologies will run to dozens of entries. It's your project, so knock yourself out, but I don't get it. Of course, I don't get lots of things....

>Since the bibliography concerns CAS, what's the importance of knowing what else is printed in an anthology other than the CAS work?
The context may be relevent for some people.
It might not be the case here, but sometimes you deal with books that have never been properly content-listed anywhere. It's a good occasion to do it. That's what I tend to do whenever I can in my French CAS bibliography [www.klarkash-ton.org].

Phil

You know one of the most rewarding things about recording these bibliographies is to see the little notes before the poems about the poets. For example, here is a little jewel from the American Poetry anthology about Clark Ashton Smith:

"In the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas (in Auburn, California) this young lonely poet has his eyrie, where he has chanted his high Orphic songs. These are gathered into three volumes, two of which are The Star-Treader and Ebony and Crystal. He has an imagination, powerful, somber and far-flying. He loves to swing out into the wonders and terrors of the Void. He shows affinities with Poe, Baudelaire and Sterling. His Poem, The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil, has been called "the greatest poem in the literature of the grotesque," and he himself has been called (justly, I think) "America's boy-wonder."


Meanwhile, the note for poets like TS Eliot and Ezra Pound were bland to say the least. In my humble opinion, the fact that there was a point when poetry regarded poets like CAS higher than someone like TS Eliot is something very interesting and thought-provoking in light of the common "Poetic History" taught in institutions. I am not sure if that is what Boyd has in mind, but I do think the more roads the better, especially if somehow one of these little bibliographies opens a door to a forgotten poet or two.