S. T. Joshi has generously allowed me to "piggyback" on to his tour promoting the new Penguin Books edition of Lord Dunsany, so I will be signing copies of SELECTED LETTERS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH at the following times and locations:

March 20 2pm San Francisco CA
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia Street

March 21 2pm Berkeley CA
Dark Carnival (Ron Hilger will be there also.)
3086 Claremont Avenue

March 22 5pm Berkeley CA
Change of Hobbit
2020 Shattuck Avenue

Bring along your copies of RED WORLD OF POLARIS and I'll sign them also!

Incidentally, according to supplement 12 of Jack Chalker's Index to the Science Fantasy Publishers, "only half the first printing were bound and these sold out on publication; additional copies to complete the first edition were ordered and received in late January, 2004." I can't get verification of that from AH, but it sounds about right. CAS' star is definitely on the ascendent!
Best,
Scott

Scott, do you think Penguin would ever do a CAS volume?

"Ever" covers a long time! Unfortunately, the current editorship at Penguin does not consider Smith to be a suitable candidate for inclusion in the 20th Century Classics series at this time. However, we are working on correcting this misperception. Scott

IMO opinion, it's probably going to be a more fruitful venture to see a volume of his poems through publication with Penguin than otherwise. At least the Dunsany volume has come through, but now for a Machen one....

voleboy wrote:

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At least the [Penguin] Dunsany volume has come through, but now for a Machen one....

I agree with you regarding CAS's poetry and Penguin, and, to be candid, I would rather see that than a volume of his tales. As for a Penguin 20th Century Classics Machen collection, I doubt that we'll see one--at least, not under Joshi's editorship, since Chaosium is publishing his efforts in this vein, I believe.

Kyberean Wrote:
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> voleboy wrote:
>
Quote:At least the Dunsany volume has come
> through, but now for a Machen one....
>
> I agree with you regarding CAS's poetry and
> Penguin, and, to be candid, I would rather see
> that than a volume of his tales. As for a Penguin
> 20th Century Classics Machen collection, I doubt
> that we'll see one--at least, not under Joshi's
> editorship, since Chaosium is publishing his
> efforts in this vein, I believe.

Au contraire. S. T. is valiantly attempting to convince Penguin to publish annotated editions of Machen's stories, or at least of THE HILL OF DREAMS. He doesn't consider this to be competition to his Chaosium editions because they are not annotated.

Best,
Scott

[quote]He doesn't consider this to be competition to his Chaosium editions because they are not annotated.[/i]

I wondered about that. I thought that Chaosium might consider them to be competition, but I suppose that, from a legal perspective, that doesn't matter? At any rate, Machen's tales don't seem to me to scream out for annotation, the way that Poe's or Lovecraft's do, but a new edition of The Hill of Dreams would be intriguing, and most welcome.

I'd be happy to see any Machen come out, even if it's only because my bibliography will swell out by an entry or two more.

I'm just hanging out to get my hands on a copy of the SELECTED LETTERS, so I can check what Machen references are there, in part.

Phillip