Machen Arthur Intro (18 results)

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 433 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate signs of use. Light markings in text. Light staining on front and back cover. Light foxing around edges. No dj.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition thus. Ltd to 333 copies. This one unnumbered Dust Jacket spine a trifle sunned. Uncommon . Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 1869955293. ISBN/EAN: 9781869955298. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23222.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). Third Edition by Publisher. 219 pages. "A trip backward into evil by the master of the occult!" CONTENTS - 1-The Great God Pan; 2 - The White People; 3 - The Inmost LIght; 4 - The Shining Pyramid; 6 - The Great Return. >> Cover creasing & scuffing; spine slant; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good - Cash. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. The covers/corners have some creasing. Small tears in the corners of the spine. Notations, highlighting and a few drawings to the pages. Previous owner's name inside. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Sm octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. Complete in three (3) volumes, uniformly bound in color illus. wraps, slipcased. 1st thus, reprinting the original 1932 edition. xxxvi,750 + viii,751-1491 + viii,1492-2216 pp. Slipcase shows just a hint of tanning, slight shelf wear, nicely preserved. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hando, Fred J. (illustrator). Hard cover in good condition, with an unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Dust jacket is marked, including notable tanning, creasing and wear. Fold points are chipped, with large open tears to front and rear head, smaller open tears at various points across the edges. Blue cloth boards are sunned, bumped corners, wear to edges. Pageblock tanned, this leading into pastedown edges. Within, pastedowns are illustrated; 'The Pleasant Land of Gwent', and the content is punctuated with Hando's b/w drawings. Pages are tightly bound, and content is unmarked. CN.

Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 9 pages. Errata laid in. Uncommon . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26243.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Great Britain: The Tartarus Press, 2007. NEW. Limited to 300 copies. From the Publisher (see image) : "Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands". First Complete Edition/Limited. Hard Cover/Wibalin Cloth/Sewn. New/New. Illus. by Frontispiece. 8vo size - over 9¼" tall.

Limited edition, number 474 of 1250 signed and numbered copies. A collection of fifteenth-century stories translated from French by Robert B. Douglas. Signed by Arthur Machen on the limitation statement and by Tice under the frontispiece. Volume 1 (of 2) only. Publisher's ornately blindstamped cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, in the original dustjacket. [2], xxv, 279 pp. 8 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. Frontispiece and 7 plates after Clara Tice. Good; slight loss to lower corner of p. 73/74, dustjacket worn with some substantial loss at head, one clumsy tape repair, ring stain to rear panel.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful example of the scarce first edition of this collection of poems from Robert Silliman Hillyer, with an introduction from Arthur Machen. A scarce first edition.An early volume of poems from American poet and professor of English literature Robert Hillyer, who won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934.Poems include 'Alone', 'Never Fear', and 'Black Magic'.With an introduction from Arthur Machen, the writer best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards. Externally, excellent, with a touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, and minor rubbing to board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth, cover and spine titles in gilt. Minor foxing, boards lightly splayed and little discoloration to front board else about VG, free of any former owner markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 24 x 16.5 cm. xiii. 415 pp. Near Fine, unclipped jacket. Book is Fine: entirely clean and square with A1 binding. No issues.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Arthur Machen's masterful collection of fourteen supernatural tales, in the vibrant original dust wrapper. A 1965 printing of a work first published in 1949.In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.Fourteen tales by Machen are included in this anthology, including 'The Great God Pan', 'Children of the Pool', and 'The Terror'.With the blind stamp of architecture collector and cardiologist Dr Derek Gair Gibson (1935-2021), to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Minor area of paper residue to front board tail, with tide mark and handling marks to rear board. Small tide mark to front board tail. Blind stamp to front free endpaper. Light tidemark to fold over rear joint of dust wrapper. Light chipping to dust wrapper back strip head and tail. Two small closed tears to head of rear wrap. Rubbing to joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo., [2], 314, [4] pp. In publisher's orange cloth binding with black lettering to spine. In the original unclipped dust jacket. No other stated printings. **CONDITION: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Foxing to fore-edge of text block visible when book closed. Otherwise clean, with no inscription. Dust jacket has dust-soiling and some closed tears to top edge. ** An odd assortment of British writers combine to make this anthology of short stories published between the wars strangely compelling. The writers were connected in real life (e.g. John Gawsworth gave Hugh MacDiarmid a place to stay in London, and was a huge admirer of Arthur Machen), but as writers they showcase a wide array of styles: MacDiarmid writes Scots dialect in a modernist style worthy of Joyce's Molly Bloom, Machen sees ancient ritual in the streets of modern London, and T.F. Powys creates a study of a marginalized Eleanor Rigby-like woman, tending to an abandoned church. The introduction by John Rowland insists that these works thus assembled convey a "message", discernible by the "sensitive reader". Every reader will no doubt have their own response to these sometimes unsettling vignettes, whose shared characteristic is of lives lived on the edge.** Editor John Herbert Shelley Rowland (1907-1984) was the author of a number of detective novels such as "Death on Dartmoor" (1936), "The Cornish Riviera Mystery" (1939), and "Gunpowder Alley" (1941). A scarce title. (AJ). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Clara Tice (illustrator). First Edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. Pp. xxv, 279; xv, 272. With 8 illustrations in each volume. In publisher's gilt lettered green cloth with blind stamped floral design on front and rear panels. Wrapped in beige dust jackets. This edition limited to 1250 copies signed and numbered by Arthur Machen who wrote the introduction. This is copy no. 97. Also signed by illustrator Clara Tice on the frontispiece in volume 1. These 15th century stories are translated from the French by Robert B. Douglas. Board corners very lightly bumped and rubbed spine ends, else clean and tight volumes in poor dust jackets with heavy chipping and wear, and some tape along the joints. Signed by Illustrator and Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. Publisher's black cloth, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine; 12 volumes, 8vo; each with a frontispiece by Rockwell Kent with tissue-guard printed in red. Number 965 from a limited edition of 1000 sets, with type derived from a 15th century Italian handwrought face, and specially made and watermarked paper to reproduce an early Italian handmade paper. All volumes with gently bumped spine tips and corners; some very faint rubbing on boards; internally nice and clean. A handsome set, the bright gilt spines display very nicely.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Elkin Mathews, London in 1926. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition with the original black cloth-backed boards, grey paper to sides, and gilt titles to the spine. A little pushing and rubbing at the spine tips. Light bumping and rubbing to the edges and corners. One previous owner's penned details to the upper blank end-paper. Early easing of the front lower hinge. Toning to the text-block and page edges due to the quality of the paper stock used. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. Some loss at the corners and spine ends. The cover panels have become detached from the spine panel and one piece of the upper spine has become detached. The pieces however come together and present well in the removable Brodart archival cover. Some toning to the edges and the spine. The PORTFOLIO was published by John Gawsworth, London in 1936. The portfolio is in Very Good++ condition in printed brown/grey wrappers with the forty illustrations loosely inserted, as issued. Some light creasing and some short closed tears to the portfolio wrapper edges. Some light age related markings to the wrappers. The complete set of the 40 woodcut proofs on japon are each captioned, numbered, and signed by Frederick Carter in pencil. The illustrations are exactly the same as those appearing in the book. Some of the plates are a little creased at the edges and have some sporadic light spotting and toning to the edges. A very scarce copy of Carter's book of alchemical illustrations, with the rare large format portfolio which is one of only 25 such sets issued. Frederick Carter (1883-1967) started producing prints in 1908, and illustrated various books and periodicals between 1914 and 1937 including 'The Cafe Royal Cocktail Book'. 'The Dragon of the Alchemists' was first published by Elkin Mathews as a collection of esoteric essays elucidating the symbolic illustrations, accompanied by an Arthur Machen introduction: 'The only way of telling the truth is by means of the symbol: the part that is put for the whole; that whole which for our lips is ineffable. The world is a cypher. He does best who hints most closely at the secret message latent in the signs exhibited to us.' Frederick Carter became a mystic symbolist artist, involved with Aleister Crowley and worked on illustrations for D.H. Lawrence's 'Apocalypse'. He was also a friend of Austin Osmond Spare and helped with his theories of automatic drawing. From 1922 he taught etching at Liverpool School of Art and during the 1930's he abandoned printmaking for writing but continued to paint until the late 1950's. His work is in the collections of the British Museum and The V&A. As a friend of D. H. Lawrence, he sent the manuscript of 'The Dragon of the Alchemist's to Lawrence for his comments. (Horne p. 138). Complete portfolios such as this one are extremely scarce and rarely appear on the market. More images available on request. Ashton rare Books welcomes direct contact.