Rare books from Lame Excuse Books

Biting Dog Press, 2012. Hardback. Fine. Folio Edition of the first edition broadsheet, one of 50 copies so issued, a Fine copy, with one broadsheet on each side of an oversized folio case with accompanying slipcase. This thing is huge, about 16 1/2" high by 14 1/2" wide. This is about the point where it stops being a book and starts being a fetish object. I've got a pictures of it here. I only have one for sale, and it's out of print from the publisher.

Alternate Routes with Forced Perspectives with Stolen Skies. Charnel House, 2018-2022. First edition hardback, each #56 of 150 signed, numbered copies, all Fine copy in boards embossed in gold, in polybag, sans dust jackets, as issued. I think the first two books are out of print from the publisher. Only have one set. A beautiful production.

First edition hardback, a Very Good copy with a long crease running down the middle part of the spine and traces of wear to cloth, front hinge just starting at bottom, slight bumping at head and heel and page blocks dusty, in a Very Good dust jacket with faint soiling to front and rear, a 1/2″ x 1/8″ chip at rear heel join, shallow chipping at head, and crease to top front corner. Inscribed twice by Smith (the first apparently with a fountain pen, the second with a ballpoint): "Clark Ashton Smith/Auburn, Cal/Nov. 27th, 1912" then "For Harry Rosenberry/with sincere compliments/of Clark Ashton Smith/Apr. 14th, 1961," which was exactly four months before his death. Poetry collection, and Smith's first book. Joshi/Schultz/Conners, Clark Ashton Smith: A Comprehensive Bibliography A.1.a. Bleiler Checklist (1978), page 181. Sidney-Fryer, Emperor of Dreams, page 128. Note: The line of white at the bottom of the dj scans is glare from the dust jacket protector, not any loss of material.

First edition oversized (11 1/2" x 8 9/16") chapbook original, a Fine- copy with what looks like two very small stray fountain pen marks on either side of "and" on front cover (possibly from Smith), some mild phantom creasing along rear cover near spine, and a trace of edgewear, hand corrected (but not signed) by Clark Ashton Smith. Of the two copies of this that has passed through my hands, this is by far the nicer copy, and the handwritten corrections look just like the ones in my copy, so I feel confident in judging them to be Smith's. (Also, not all of them are the same as the ones in my copy.) Though1000 copies were printed, this is a fragile item, and I can't imagine that terribly many have survived at all, much less in such nice condition.

First edition hardback, letter E of 26 signed lettered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine traycase (though, as is common for this edition, the paper spine label is starting to peel at top and bottom; I ended up gluing the one on my personal copy back on with a touch of archival paper glue), sans dust jacket, as issued. Hap and Leonard novel. This is one case where the lettered edition is much more attractive than the numbered edition, featuring beautiful marbled boards. No other copies online as of this writing. Isajenko, The World Lansdalean, A017aii.