THE GREENWOOD FAUN. Deluxe Edition in Full Leather.
Purple Bearded Uncle, 2026. First Edition Thus. Octavo, bound in full rich green morocco leather with gilt lettering on spine and front panel, gilt design of a faun playing Pan-pipes on the front cover, handmade marbled endpapers. 168 pp., decorative chapter headings and limitation leaf. Issued in an edition limited to just 20 copies, of which this is copy No. 10. A fine copy, without dust jacket, as issued. Item #314610
“Nina Antonia’s The Greenwood Faun is a haunted, haunting work. Summoning up Lucian Taylor, the hallucinated hero of Arthur Machen’s The Hill of Dreams, Nina channels the curious, captivating story of what happened to Lucian’s literary masterpiece after his death, and how it both saves and destroys those who come across it after it is posthumously published. Shot through with decadence, poetry, opium, and incense, with the ghost of Lionel Johnson as psychopomp and the Great God Pan heavy in the fields, this is a beautifully written proem: witty, crepuscular, enchanting, surprising.”
—David Tibet.
Price (CAD): $500.00