This just in ...

I just got a copy of the Storisende Edition of Domnei/The Music from Behind the Moon IV.

I already owned a paperback of this precise text, in Lin Carter’s BAF edition, but every other month or so I buy one in original greenback.

What is your latest Cabell acquisition?

My latest is Smirt: An Urban Nightmare, listed here in January 20020.

>2 lansingsexton:
'Smith', the sequel to Smirt, is more or less a throwback to his fantasy style of the 1920s...

>1 wirkman:

I just got an extra 'greenback' of Figures of Earth for about $10 incl shipping.

Also copies of The Smart Set magazine from Feb and March 1904, both with early Cabell stories in them.

And a 1920 tls (typed letter signed) from Cabell to The Society of Midland Authors declining their invitation to address them.

>3 Crypto-Willobie: That I didn't know. I've read Smirt, acquired Smith later, and haven't gotten around to the second book on the assumption it would be much like the first. Now I may need to dive into the boxes where it lives. (Still don't have my JBC properly shelved since the last move.)

>4 Crypto-Willobie: Great stuff.

>5 paradoxosalpha:

Well, 'more or less' -- don't let me make you expect too much. I suspect some of it might be left over from unfinished Witch-woman stories...

>4 Crypto-Willobie:
>5 paradoxosalpha:

I don't own much literary ephemera of interest, but I do have at least one letter from an author and I've often thought LT is missing an opportunity in not making a higher profile case for cataloguing such items, and (the key thing) making them accessible to those interested in reviewing them.

There's been a good move toward cataloguing short stories, with various levels of "official" support. LT could be a fabulous archive for the non-published yet still relevant work of various authors.

>7 elenchus:

I agree that letters are a proper item for LT cataloguing. I tag them 'correspondence'. Aside from about fifty letters from Cabell, I also have catalogued letters from both of Cabell's wives; six from Cabell's editor Guy Holt; several from Don Bregenzer, and Montgomery Evans II; and singles from Arthur Machen, Edgar Saltus, A. Grove Day, David Garnett, Louis Untermeyer, and Carl Van Doren. In case it's not obvious, these others all have something to do with Cabell, even if only distantly.

ETA
Oops... 2 from Saltus.