10/27/06 FRI:
---Here today from Hippocampus:

Connors, Scott (ed) THE FREEDOM OF FANTASTIC THINGS: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith, Hippocampus ('06), (represents the most substantial volume of criticism of Smith’s work ever published, and includes both original and previously unpublished work by leading scholars on Smith), {hc avail. @ $49.95}, new 20.00

Kirk, Mara & S.T. Joshi (eds) LOVECRAFT'S NEW YORK CIRCLE: The Kalem Club, 1924-1927, Hippocampus ('06), 1st edn, (largely unpublished letters from bookseller George Kirk to his fiancée and letters by other members of circle, including Rheinhart Kleiner, Samuel Loveman, James F. Morton, Everett McNeil, Frank Belknap Long, and, of course, H.P. Lovecraft brings the Kalem Club alive as never before; Cannon preface), new 15.00

Pugmire, W.H. THE FUNGAL STAIN and Other Dreams, Hippocampus ('06), 1st edn, (many and multiform pleasures for Lovecraftians, including a hotly anticipated novelette set in author’s trademark locality, Sesqua Valley),new 15.00

---Here today from Stark House:

Brewer, Gil WILD TO POSSESS / A TASTE FOR SIN, Stark House Noir Classics, 10/06, 1st thus, ('59 & '61 pb originals; Gregory Shepard & Verlaine Brewer intros; Pronzini postscript reprinted from 1989 Mystery Scene), new 19.95