Scott Connors Wrote:
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> groovista Wrote:
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> > Greetings!
> >
> > I am a long-time fan of CAS and have over the
> > years acquired a modest collection of his
> works,
> > as a well as a few other items from other
> favorite
> > authors.
> >
> > 1) A signed 1st edition of "Out of Space and
> > Time",
> > with a 'well-loved' Hannes Bok dust jacket,
> > inscribed
> >
> > "To Ben, with
> > profound admiration
> > of his volcanic and
> > glacial genius,
> > from Clark.
> >
> > Aug. 1st 1942"
> >
> >
> > 2) A signed 1st edition of "The Dark Chateau",
> > inscribed
> >
> > "Dear Eff-Jay:
> > Some of my own favorite
> > verses are in this.
> > Klar-Kashton
> >
> > Pacific Grove, Cal.
> > Nov. 26th, 1959"
> >
> > (I think this was Forrest J. Ackerman's copy,
> > judging from the inscription,
> > and I tried to give it to him for his last
> > birthday, but his ride arrived
> > before I could arrange matters.)
> >
>
> This is definitely Ackerman's copy. He sold off
> most of his signed CAS books when he was thinning
> out the Ackermansion.
>
> You lucked out on the first book. I am pretty
> sure that the "Ben" referred to is Benjamin
> DeCasseres, who wrote the "Emperor of Shadows"
> piece that prefaces SELECTED POEMS.
>
> Scott
Wow! Thanks very much for the information. May I say that I'm delighted at the depth and quality of the discussions and content here on The Eldritch Dark. Worthy of the Sorcerer of Auburn.
Sadly, I hadn't the wit to contact Mr. Ackerman before his passing; I contacted a friend of his
when I learned of his recent 92nd birthday party and offered "The Dark Chateau" as a gift, but too late
(on this plane, anyway). I did include the text of "The Sorcerer Departs" in my condolence email.
Not familiar with Mr. DeCasseres; the brief Wikipedia article on him has some choice quotes;
the first of which is really good and the second of which is baffling:
Quote:Wikipedia
"It is the sense of the Irrational as principle of existence.
It is the divination of Chance. It is the apotheosis of the Intuitive.
The Irrational is the groundwork of all existence"
"I never read women writers...because I think in the arts women 'do not belong.'
Sex is their art; let them stick to it." ("A Self-Interview" Contempo I.9 Sept. 15, 1931. p. 1)
Oh, well, we're all daft. Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, C. J. Cherryh and Marion Zimmer Bradley
are great favorites of mine, and I believe they write passably well.
Groovium ~ art, magic, wonder ~ www.groovium.com
"Gerunding adverbly, Noun verbed."