Clark Ashton Smith – THE BLACK DIAMONDS (2002) – Arabian Nights Adventure

Clark Ashton Smith – THE BLACK DIAMONDS New York – Hippocampus Press (2002) 1^st ed. Wraps. (vi), [7]-181, (i). In original pictorial thin card covers.

Condition : Fine

About : A previously unpublished novel by CAS written when the author was only 14 and here published under the skilful editing of S T Joshi. A story of seventeenth-century Bagdad involving two mysterious black diamonds and the conflict they engender between an Arab family and the powerful thief who seeks to regain them. One better suited for a CAS completist.