Nero: An Early Poem

Overview:

  • Title: Nero: An Early Poem
  • Author: Clark Ashton Smith
  • Year: 1964
  • Publisher: Roy A. Squires
  • Price: $1.00
  • Pages: [4]
  • Binding: unknown
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: Nero: An Early Poem
  • Notes: Colophon states about 450 copies were printed. Chalker/Owings gives the price as $5.00 and states that 307 unnumbered copies were printed on Warren's Olde Style and glued into a Tweedweave Dusty Red or Andorra Tan wrapper; 74 copies on Chroma and glued into a Chroma Gray wrapper of which 50 copies were numbered. 381 copies total. They also state that 218 copies have a tipped-in portrait of Smith with "proof copy" handwritten into the other 24. They do not state which bindings have the portrait or why the numbers do not add up to the stated total number of copies. The price may refer to the numbered state as it differs from the price quoted by Sidney-Fryer. Month of publication and price from Donald Sidney-Fryer's Emperor of Dreams. Page count from Worldcat. Tuck states 8 pages.