Smith, Clark Ashton, translator. [Charles Pierre Baudelaire]

SONG OF AUTUMN [CHANT D'AUTOMNE]

Auburn, CA [about 1930]. Manuscript. Fine. Item #42734

Original final draft two page typed manuscript of Smith's translation of Baudelair's poem, Chant d'automne. Smith's signature in full under last line of verse. Referenced in Donald Sidney-Fryer's, Emperor of Dreams; A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography, page 118. First published in the October 1935 issue of Weird Tales. Published again in Spells and Philtres, Arkham House, 1958 and in Selected Poems, Arkham House, 1971. From the collection and estate of Raymond L.F. Johnson. Mild toning and very light folding creases in thirds to the pages [for mailing], else fine.

Price: $675.00