Re: Complete Poetry & Translations in paperback
Posted by:
Knygatin (IP Logged)
Date: 10 December, 2012 11:06AM
Oh, I wish I still had the photos of a CAS painting I copied from an Ebay auction. I've lost them. I think it must have been "A Jungle of the Indies". Well, it sounds on the video as if it is Joshi who is opposed to using CAS's artwork, not the Penguin staff (I doubt if they have even seen any of it). If Joshi had seen those photos he might have been inspired into some ideas for a colorful and lush CAS-art cover.
However, I am honestly not convinced a CAS cover, even at its best, would be the most commercially successfull to use. For this first Penguin book of Clark Ashton Smith, I think the most important thing is that it sells as much as possible. I would be willing to sacrifice for that. Not a cheap sensationalist cover that attracts only the rabble, but still something that will draw a large audience. It is very important.
(Oh my, what has it all come down too?! Has my soul finally turned into a speculative materialistic dealer? :/ *shuddering*)
"The City of the Singing Flame", I regret they will only use the first half in Penguin. I have always seen the first and second parts together as one whole story, and I found both parts equally good. I think Arkham House made a mistake when they cut it in half, and removed the second part for the A Rendevous In Averoigne book. I really can't understand it. They form an integrated story together.
Glad to hear about the Lovecraft/Smith letters; that was what I suspected. Rather do it well worked through, than rushed.