THE LITTLE COUNTRY.
New York: William Morrow and Company. [1991]. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Octavo,original boards with cloth spine titled in silver. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
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TALKING STICK MAGAZINE. Later titled: Talking Stick Journal). Issues No. 1 - 26, Plus Vol 2, Nos 1-2, Plus the TALKING STICK MAGICAL DIRECTORY. 29 issues, A Complete Set.
London: Talking Stick Krayzee Klub. 1990-1999. First Printings. Original Wraps. First Editions. Softcover. Quarto. (8" x 11.5"), later perfect bound trade paperbacks (for the last two issues, Vol 2, Issues Nos 1 & 2). Variously paginated. Comprises Issues Nos 1-26, Vol 2 Issues 1 & 2, plus the 'Talking Stick..... More
ABOUT FAIRIES And Other Important People.
London: H.R. Allenson, Limited. No Date [1929]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in black. 76 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. With 5 full-page clour plates. Spine panel and a small portion of the front & rear boards tanned; ink inscription dated..... More
SYSTEMIC STABILITY AND CYBERNETIC CONTROL: An Introduction to the Cybernetics of Higher Integrated Behavior.
Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, 1965. Second Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. pp 149 - 212. The Author's own copy, whith his initials "CM" on the upper front wrapper and the note "pp 200-2". Stain to front panel, else very good. Issued in 1964 in slightly different format as QUADERNI..... More
THE TERROR. A Fantasy. With an Introduction by Vincent Starrett.
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., [1965]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First printing of this edition, with a new introduction by Starrett. Octavo, original tan cloth stamped in red, top and lower edges trimmed, fore-edges untrimmed. 190 pp. Issued as a volume in 'The Seagull Library'. A fine copy..... More
ABRAXAS. International Journal of Esoteric Studies, No 1.
London: Fulgur Limited. 2009. First Edition. Tall quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers, all edges trimmed. 128 pp. Illustrated. A fine copy. ¶ Includes 'Witchcraft and the Graal in the Work of Arthur Machen, by Edward Gauntlett', pp 16-28. Other literary contributions include: The Green Intercessor:Tutelary Spirits and the Transmission of..... More
MY FAVOURITE LONDON DEVILS. A Gazatteer of Books, Lives and Brief Encounters. Illustrated by Dave McKean.
London: Tangerine Press, 2016. Second Printing. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (trade paperback format). Second printing. 203 pp. A fine copy. Collects 20 Essays by Sinclair, including "Our Unknown Everywhere", on Arthur Machen. Other authors covered include Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, Alexander Baron, Roland Camberton, Angela Carter, B. Catling, Joseph Conrad..... More
ARTHUR MACHEN. A Short Account of his Life and Work. By Aidan Reynolds and William Charlton. With an Introduction by D.B. Wyndham Lewis.
Oxford: Caermaen Books. 1988. First Paperback edition. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, all edges trimmed. 202 pp, Index at rear. Frontispiece and 4 plates within the text. Lower corner bumped; a very good copy. ¶ Originally published in 1963. The first full-length biography of Machen. More
EXCAVATIONS. A Book of Advocacies. By Carl van Vechten.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped with a decorative border in blind on front cover, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top page edges stained orange, others uncut. 285 + [1] pp. A few leaves unopened, small bookseller's ticket (Gelber, Lilienthal, San Francisco)..... More
THE THREE IMPOSTORS or THE TRANSMUTATIONS. Illustrated by Pete Williams.
Newport, Wales: Three Impostors, 2019. First Edition Thus. Tall octavo, original black boards lettered in white and grey on spine and front panel, grey endpapers, all edges trimmed. 215 pp, illustrated. This new edition bears a new Introduction by James Machin, an essay, 'Calm from the Chaotic', by Hywel Pontin;..... More
THE HILL OF DREAMS. With an Introduction by Lord Dunsany.
London: Corgi Books, [1967]. First Paperback edition. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format), all edges trimmed. 156 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. Issued as Corgi Book GN7712 (3s. 6d.) This edition includes a four-page Introduction by Lord Dunsany. Text block a bit darkened. Scratch across the front cover..... More
MEMORIES OF AN EDWARDIAN By Edgar Jepson.
London: Martin Secker, Publisher to the Richards Press, 8 Charles Street, St. Jame's Square. [1938]. Second Edition. "New and Cheaper Edition", i.e., the Second Edition, published one year after the First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth lettered in white on spine panel, top edges stained grey, others trimmed. 279 pp..... More
SELECTED LETTERS. The Private Writings of the Master of the Macabre. Edited by Roger Dobson, Godfrey Brangham, and R.A. Gilbert.
[Wellingborough, Northamptonshire]: The Aquarian Press. [1988]. First Edition. Octavo, original blue boards titled in silver on spine panel, grey endpapers, all edges trimmed. 256 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, price-corner clipped. ¶ Preface by Roger Dobson, Foreword by Hilary Machen. Collects letters from Machen to A.E...... More
SCIENCE, LIFE AND LITERATURE By M.P. Shiel. With a Foreword by John Gawsworth.
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., [1950]. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in red and lettered in gilt on spine panel, all edges trimmed. 217 pp. Foxing to preliminary & terminal leaves and page edges; underlinging in ink on pp. 33-35; otherwise a clean, very good copy. ¶ Contains..... More
THE AYLESFORD REVIEW. Volume V, Number 2, Spring 1963.
Aylesford, Kent, UK: St. Albert's Press. 1963. First Edition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers stapled at spine, all edges trimmed. pp [62] - [116]. Light stress marks; a very good copy. and slightly bumped; very good. ¶ Contains "In My Father's House" by Hilary Machen, and "In The Land of..... More
WEIRD FICTION IN BRITAIN 1880-1939.
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial boards, all edges trimmed. 259 pp. Index. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ A study of how ‘weird fiction’ emerged from Victorian supernatural literature, abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the past for the contemporary weird tale..... More
THE PLEASANT LAND OF GWENT By Fred J. Hando. With an Introduction by Arthur Machen. Drawings by the Author.
Newport, Monmouthshire: R.H. Johns Limited, No Date [1944]. First Edition. Large crown octavo, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel, small vignette in gilt on front cover, map endpapers, all edges trimmed. 112 pp. illustrated title page, line-drawings by the author throughout, some full page. The trade edition..... More
PATH AND PAVEMENT. Twenty New Tales of Britain. Selected, with an Introduction, by John Rowland.
London: Eric Grant, 6 Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane, W.C.2. [1937]. First Edition. Octavo, original orange cloth lettered and ruled in black on spine panel, all edges trimmed. 314 pp. Contains 'Ritual' by Arthur Machen. Cloth very lightly dust-soiled and marked, corners a bit soft; a very good, clean copy..... More
ARTHUR MACHEN. A Bibliography By Henry Danielson. With Notes, Biographical and Critical, by Arthur Machen; And an Introduction by Henry Savage.
London: Henry Danielson, 64 Charing Cross Road, W.C.2, 1923. First Edition. Octavo, original blue boards with blue cloth spine, spine and front panel lettered in gilt, all edges trimmed. 59 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies. Slight darkening to text block; a fine copy, without dust jacket..... More
THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY.
London: Martin Secker, 1925. First Edition Thus. Large crown octavo, original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel, top edges trimmed, others untrimmed. [308] pp. Issued in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author, of which this is No. 62. Machen has written a three-page..... More
THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY; Or, The History of the IX Joyous Journies. In which are contained the amorous adventures and facetious tales of Master Gervase Perrot, Gent., now for the first time done into English, by Arthur Machen, translator of the Heptameron of Margaret of Navarre.
Carbonnek [New York]: Privately Printed for the Society of Pantagruelists [Boni & Liveright]. 1923. Large crown octavo, original blue boards with vellum paper spine lettered and decorated in gilt and ruled in blind, blue endpapers, all edges untrimmed. [332] pp, a few line-drawings in the text. Issued in an edition..... More
CASANOVA'S ESCAPE FROM THE LEADS Being His Own Account As Translated With An Introduction by Arthur Machen.
No Place [London]: Casanova Society. 1925. First Edition. Octavo, original Batik paper covered boards, black cloth spine, brown paper label on spine lettered in red, top edges trimmed and stained red, others untrimmed.175 pp, decorated title leaf, frontispiece portrait of a bust of Casanova. One of two noted bindings -..... More
FANTASTIC TALES OR THE WAY TO ATTAIN - A Book Full of Pantagruelism Now For The First Time Done Into English by Arthur Machen.
Carbonnek [New York]: Privately Printed [Boni & Liveright]. 1923. Large crown octavo, original blue boards with vellum paper spine lettered and decorated in gilt and ruled in blind, blue endpapers, all edges untrimmed. [448] pp, a few line-drawings in the text. Issued in an edition limited to 1050 numbered copies..... More
TALES OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL. With an Introduction by Philip van Doren Stern.
London: The Richards Press, No. 8 Charles Street, St. James Square. [1949]. First Edition. Crown octavo, original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, all edges trimmed, top edges stained red. 427 pp., frontispiece portrait of the author. Inner hinges cracked, spine leaned, small stains; a good reading copy. Not..... More
THE COSY ROOM AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Rich & Cowan, Ltd., [1936]. First Edition. Octavo, original terra-cotta cloth, spine lettered in green, all edges trimmed, top edges stained green. [268] pp. Inner hinge neatly repaired at title leaf, light evidence of a label removed from front paste-down, cloth worn at eges and repaired along rear spine..... More
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