- The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
Infobox Book
name = The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
title_orig =
translator =
image_caption = cover by Andrew Smith of "The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith"
author =Clark Ashton Smith
illustrator = Andrew Smith
cover_artist = Andrew Smith
country =United States
language = English
series =
subject = Notebook,Memoir
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publisher =Arkham House
release_date =1979
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media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages = xv, 141 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-087-4
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followed_by ="The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith" is a transcription of a notebook that was kept by author
Clark Ashton Smith . It was released in 1979 byArkham House in an edition of 2,588 copies. The book was transcribed from Smith's notebook byDonald Sidney-Fryer and R.A. Hoffman. Appended to the transcription are two memoirs of Smith by George F. Haas.Contents
"The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith" contains the following:
# "Foreword", by Marvin R. Hiemstra
# "The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith"
#* "A Note on the Text"
#* "Explanation of Editorial Devices"
#* "Index by Title"
#* "The Black Book" of Clark Ashton Smith"
#* "Excerpts from "The Black Book"
#* "Appendix of Finished Poems"
#** "Song of the Necromancer"
#** "Dominium in Excelsis"
#** "Shapes in the Sunset"
#** "Don Quixote on Market Street"
#** "Soliloquy in an Ebon Tower"
#** "The Isle of Saturn"
#** "The Centaur"
#** "Ye Shall Return"
#** "Thebaid"
#* "Appendix of Published Epigrams and Pensées"
# Two Memoirs of Smith by George F. Haas
#* "As I Remember Klarkash-ton"
#* "Memories of Klarkash-ton"References
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