THE AVEROIGNE CHRONICLES: The Complete Averoigne Stories of Clark Ashton Smith.

First collected edition and first edition with these illustrations, first printing. Limited Edition. Signed by the author of the afterword, the illustrator and the editor. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the David Ho illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge red. Illustrated with 12 double page full colour artworks for each story, eight black and white full page plates and numerous in-text illustrations by David Ho. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a bump to the bottom of the spine, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears.

Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies, this example is numbered 189 and signed by the illustrator David Ho, editor Ron Hilger and author of the afterword Donald Sidney-Fryer in black ink on the colophon. The colophon also contains the facsimile signature of Clark Ashton Smith. Comprising 'A Night in Malneant', 'The Maker of Gargoyles', 'The Holiness of Azedarac', 'The Colossus of Ylourgne', 'The Enchantress of Sylaire', 'The Beast of Averoigne', 'Mother of Toads', 'A Rendezvous in Averoigne', 'The Mandrakes', 'The Satyr', 'The Disinterment of Venus' and 'The End of The Story'.