Klarkash-ton and Monstro Ligriv

Previously unpublished poems and art by Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) and Virgil Finlay (1914-1971)

Published by Gerry de la Ree, 1974.
[limited to 550 copies, 50 bound in hard covers]

Front of Hardcover

Front of Softcover

Back of Softcover

Contains the following Finlay black and white artwork
(in the order of appearance)

• Cover, no title given, 1945
• Inside cover: 'Clay', a 1932 linoleum cut
• PLASTESINE MASK, pencil sketch done May 1, 1932
• SELF PORTRAIT, sketch, 'Finlay in a bad mood', 1931
• DIMITRI, Pencil sketch for Thorp McClusky's 'The Thing on the Floor', March 1938, Weird Tales
• MARESCHA, Pencil sketch done August 1937, for March 1938, Weird Tales story 'Incense of Abomination' by Seabury Quinn
• HELEN, a 1954 pencil sketch for a painting never completed
• SCENE FROM AVOVE, Artist an model are viewed from a height in this 1933 pen and ink drawing
• Back cover, PURITY, a 1933 linoleum cut

Also contains:

• Photo taken on July 23, 1969: FINLAY WITH HIS FIRST COVER, painting 1936 for Weird Tales, but not used until Summer, 1973 issue
• A letter dated May 15th, 1937 from Clark Ashton Smith to Virgil Finlay
• A letter dated June 13th, 1937 from Clark Ashton Smith to Virgil Finlay
• A letter dated Sept. 27th, 1937 from Clark Ashton Smith to Virgil Finlay

And:

• Maened, poem
• So deep a dream, poem

Maened

So deep a dream