Chambers, Robert - A Little Yellow Book Of Carcosa And Kings
By any other name, “The King In Yellow”.
Most have either read this book, or own it, or plan to do one or the other.
Consequently, I shall talk about this particular edition, issued by Borderlands Press.
The boards are a sickly yellow, altogether fitting, with faded gold endpapers. The frontispiece is a 1900 photo of the Dragon Court, since demolished. The book itself is small sized, easy to hold and easy to hide, should the need arise.
The four sections of the book are generously footnoted. Those annotations are my chief problem and eye-rolling lament. The numbers don’t always match up. Usually, the notes appear below the text, sometimes in the text itself.
The notes themselves range from helpful to trifling.
Said errors, picayune as they are, ought to have been caught / corrected.
This is an increasingly common complaint, but I do wish presses would muster extra eyes to examine galley proofs.