The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen, First Edition (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG green cloth octavo hardcover in a VG dj. First edition. No names or markings to text. Moderate general wear to priced dj. 163pp. Anthology fl.

Condition: Good. 1970. First Edition. 163 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Some marginalia. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen (First Trade Edition) A firm copy with mild wear to spine edges and corners. Tanning to spine. Clean cover. Mild offset tanning to endpapers. Seller's label to rear pastedown. No jacket present. First trade edition. Title page dated 1925. Blue cloth with gilt lettering; top edge stained blue. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed; 189 pp. A collection of one novelette (the title story) and several essays. Title story firs t appeared in the May 1895 issue of "the Unknown World". BOOK.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Smith, Wallace (illustrator). first edition. Large octavp (6 1/2" wide by 9 1/2" tall) black cloth covers with gilt titles [xii] 241 pages. Edited, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett. Drawing by Wallace Smith. #378 of 875 copies. Former owner name on front free endpaper. 020922B.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 241 pp. Black cloth with gilt to front board and top edge, paper spine label. Very Good. Mild wear to extremities of boards, spine label toned. 1" x 2" spot of faint acidification to front paste down endpaper. Number 74 of 875 printed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Arthur Machen(Illustrator) Vincent Starrett (Editor)(Introduction) (illustrator). First Edition. The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen (First Edition & Limited) A firm copy with bright gilt. Minor wear to spine edges and corners; minor sunning to spine. No jacket present. The first edition, and a limited edition. No. 537/875. Tales and Essays, edited, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett, stated. Frontispiece illustration by Wallace Smith with spider-web patterned tissue guard. Companion volume to THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY. Black cloth with spine label and stamped gilt to cover and top edge. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen (First Edition & Limited) A firm copy. Corners mildly bumped. Minor tanning to spine label and pages. Fray to cloth at spine heel. Owner bookplate to front paste down. No jacket present. First Edition. Limited, #39/875, stated. Frontispiece illustration by Wallace Smith with spider-web patterned tissue guard. Companion volume to THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY. Black cloth w/spine label, stamped gilt to cover, and patterned endpapers. BOOK.

Wallace Smith (illustrator). Chicago: Covici-McGee:, 1923. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, Fine sans dust jacket as issued, 241 pp. Cover artwork by: Wallace Smith This edition limited to 875 numbered copies. A clean, straight and tight copy with modest overall toning, most notably to spine label. Frontispiece by Wallace Smith. A collection of 22 short stories, essays and asides. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, Fine sans dust jacket as issued,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. One of 250 numbered large paper copies signed by Machen. No dust jacket. A very good clean copy. See photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Trade Edition. First trade edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in publisher's blue cloth boards, with gold lettering to spine. Top edge stained blue, other edges untrimmed. COLLATION: 188, [4] pp. CONDITION: Very Good. Clean, bright covers. No inscriptions. Heavy foxing to first few pages and fore-edge of text block, as seems to be common with this edition. Some pages are unopened. Closed tear to one page, not affecting text. ** AUTHOR Arthur Machen (1863-1947), had a deep love of his native Wales and its Celtic past, and his early writings such as "The Great God Pan" (1894) evoked the horrors of a parallel world inhabited by demons and pagan unknowables, and the thin wall protecting us from them. ** "The Shining Pyramid" is a collection of previously published stories and essays, with an interesting history. The American author, Vincent Starrett, was an enthusiastic promoter of Machen, and compiled and published two volumes of Machen's "forgotten works": "The Shining Pyramid" (1923) and "The Glorious Mystery" (1924) - both published by the Covici-McGee Company of Chicago. Machen got to hear of this, and condensed the two volumes into one, which was published by Martin Secker in London under the title "The Shining Pyramid". This has an introduction by Machen explaining the publication history, and his comments on looking back on his works. He is generally quite critical of his own writing, but shows his enduring love of his homeland in Gwent, Wales. ** CONTENTS (with original date published, from ISFDB): Introduction by Machen, "The Shining Pyramid" (1895), "Out of the Earth" (1915), "The Happy Children" (1920), "The Secret of the Sangraal" (1924 - contains lengthy introduction, with Machen's thoughts on the original essay), "The Mystic Speech" (1924 - but originally published as "A Secret Language" in 1916), "In Convertendo" (1908), "The Martyr" (1907), "Education and the Uneducated" (1907). ** An interesting "sampler" of Machen's works, from his early medieval pastiches, to his horror stories and essays. ** REFS: Goldstone & Sweetser (1973) 31b, p. 52.

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-9 [10-12] 13-188 [189] [190: printer's imprint] [191-192: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First British edition. One of 250 numbered large paper copies signed by Machen. Published in December 1924, preceding the British trade issue published in February 1925. Collects eight short stories and articles. A story and two articles, one revised and expanded for this edition, are collected here for the first time under this title, the remainder appeared earlier in the 1923 Covici-McGee edition. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural fiction 1080. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-158 (citing the U.S. edition). Reginald 09468. Goldstone and Sweetser 31a. Just a hint of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, else a fine copy. The dust jacket it not present. (#170222).

Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-241 [242-244: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Wallace Smith, original decorated black cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, decorated endpapers. First edition. Limited to 875 numbered copies, this copy not numbered. Collects twenty-two short stories, essays, and sketches with 3-page introduction by editor Vincent Starrett. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural fiction 1077. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147 (citing the British edition). Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-158. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Goldstone and Sweetser 23a. Spine label tanned, else a fine copy. Scarce. (#167473).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. None (illustrator). First edition. The first trade edition of this collection of short stories and articles by author and mystic Arthur Machen. The first trade edition of this work, published in February 1925. A signed limited edition preceded this, and was published in December 1924.In the remnants of the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This work collects eight short stories and articles, some of which had previously appeared in print.Machen is remembered for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Light spotting to fore edge of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper lacking the front wrap, and majority of back strip. Retaining the rear wrap and front and rear flyleaf, with each portion detached from the others. Dust wrapper lightly age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book.

First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-9 [10-12] 13-188 [189] [190: printer's imprint] [191-192: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. One of 250 numbered large paper copies signed by Machen. Laid into this copy is a small photograph of Machen. Published in December 1924, preceding the British trade issue published in February 1925. Collects eight short stories and articles. A story and two articles, one revised and expanded for this edition, are collected here for the first time under this title, the remainder appeared earlier in the 1923 Covici-McGee edition. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural fiction 1080. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-158 (citing the U.S. edition). Reginald 09468. Goldstone and Sweetser 31a]. Slight wear to the spine ends, a nearly fine copy without the dust jacket. (23961).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Four page introduction by Machen. Original gilt stamped blue cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped, price is on spine). Very good-fine. 190 pages. No signatures or bookplates. No. 2 of 250 copies on large paper. Printed by The London and Norwich Press, Norwich.

Arthur Machen. Vincent Starrett, editor and introduction.The Shining Pyramid. Chicago: Covici-McGee, 1923. First edition. Octavo. 241pp. Frontispiece by Wallace Smith. Publisher's black cloth, spine with paper title label, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, illustrated endleaves. . Spine and board lightly rubbed and soiled, with slight insect loss to cloth; ink ownership signature to title page; bookplate. Very good. CDK-645.