London: Constable & Co Ltd., 1941. First Edition. Small octavo, original dark blue cloth lettered in silver on spine, all edges trimmed. 258 pp., full colour frontispiece by Ardizzone on glazed paper. PRESENTATION COPY, with A Signed Inscription from the author dated the year of Publication: "Oliver Stonor / from..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original yellow cloth, printed paper label on spine panel, decorated endpapers. 186 pp + [2] pp publisher's ads for other works by Machen at rear. A REMARKABLE INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half title leaf..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No Place [Westport, Ct]: The Apellicon Press. 1930. First Edition. Crown octavo; original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 47 pp, title page printed in black with a pictorial design in brown. Issued in an edition of only 200 copies signed by the author. Designed..... More
London: Martin Secker, 1926. First Edition. Crown octavo; original green cloth with a double border in blind on front and rear panel, spine lettered in gilt, [221] pp. The trade hardcover edition, issued in November 1926, about a month after the signed & limited edition. Light foxing to text, tiny..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First American Edition. Octavo; original yellow cloth, paper title label on spine panel, top edges trimmed and stained dark blue, others untrimmed. 277 pp, Frontispiece and seven additional full-paged plates on glazed paper inserted in the text and not included in the pagination. Spine..... More