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THE CAERLEON EDITION OF THE WORKS OF ARTHUR MACHEN...
London: Martin Secker, [1923]. Octavo, nine volumes, inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of Machen) in volume one, original sage-green cloth, front panels stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panels stamped in gold, rear panels ruled in blind, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. The Caerleon (first collected) edition. Limited to 1000 numbered sets signed by Machen. This is number 392. The works collected here are: THE GREAT GOD PAN (with "The Inmost Light" and "The Red Hand"); THE THREE IMPOSTORS; THE HILL OF DREAMS; THE SECRET GLORY; HIEROGLYPHICS; A FRAGMENT OF LIFE (with "The White People"); THE TERROR (with THE BOWMEN and THE GREAT RETURN); FAR OFF THINGS; and THINGS NEAR AND FAR.
THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY... Edited by Vincent Starrett.
Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-219 [220: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original decorated blue cloth, front cover stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained black, other edges untrimmed. First edition. Mixed collection of fiction and nonfiction including several stories published here for the first time. Edited with foreword by Vincent Starrett, whose efforts did much to awaken interest in Machen's work. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1078. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-155. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Goldstone & Sweetser 28a.
THE GREEN ROUND.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. 2058 copies printed. Text offset from that of the 1933 Ernest Benn edition. The author's last novel. "... a shocker written on assignment, tells of a man whose life is clogged with horrors set by the Little People." - Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 357. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-134. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1081. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. In 333.
THE GREEN ROUND.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-7] 8-218 [219: blank] [220: printer's imprint] [221-222: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The author's last novel. "... a shocker written on assignment, tells of a man whose life is clogged with horrors set by the Little People." - Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 357. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-134. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1081. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09461. Goldstone and Sweetser 46a.
THE GREEN ROUND.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Text offset from that of the 1933 Ernest Benn edition. The author's last novel. "... a shocker written on assignment, tells of a man whose life is clogged with horrors set by the Little People." - Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 357. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-134. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1081. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. In 333.
THE GREEN ROUND.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. 2058 copies printed. Text offset from that of the 1933 Ernest Benn edition. The author's last novel. "... a shocker written on assignment, tells of a man whose life is clogged with horrors set by the Little People." - Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 357. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-105. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-134. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1081. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. In 333.
THE GREEN ROUND.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Text offset from that of the 1933 Ernest Benn edition. The author's last novel. "... a shocker written on assignment, tells of a man whose life is clogged with horrors set by the Little People." - Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 357. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-134. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1081. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. In 333.
GUINEVERE AND LANCELOT & OTHERS ... BEING A SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND STORIES ... Edited by Michael T. Shoemaker and Cuyler W. Brooks, Jr.
Newport News, Virginia: The Purple Mouth Press, 1986. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Collects nine essays and two stories, the first being the title piece, an Aurthurian story, "Guinevere and Lancelot" and "Rituals."
THE HILL OF DREAMS.
N.p. [Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [1998]. Octavo, boards. Later edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. This novel, first published as a six-part serial in HORLICK'S MAGAZINE July - December 1904 under the title "The Garden of Avallaunius," was first published in book form in February 1907 as THE HILL OF DREAMS. "The ultimate novel of escapism, obviously deeply felt and written with considerable artistry." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-229. The Tartarus edition adds two illustrations by Sime intended for the book but not included, two introductions by Arthur Machen written for later editions (one previously unpublished), an introduction for a later edition by Lord Dunsany, and a new introduction by Mark Valentine. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 124-25. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1073. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09462.
THE HOUSE OF SOULS.
London: E. Grant Richards, 1906. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xiii [xiv-xvi] [1-2] 3-513 [514] [515: ad for The Three Impostors] [516: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Sidney H. Sime, original pictorial gray cloth with cover design by Sime in black, gold and light green. First edition. Second binding with "GRANT / RICHARDS" at base of spine panel. Collects the contents of THE GREAT GOOD PAN (1894) and THE THREE IMPOSTORS (1895), the latter with some revisions and omissions, plus the first book appearance of three tales, "A Fragment of Life," "The White People," and "The Red Hand." "... Machen's most important collection." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 277. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-135. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1072. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-157. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09464. Goldstone and Sweetser 10e.
ORNAMENTS IN JADE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-46 [47: blank] [48: colophon] [49-54: blank] [note: first three and last two leaves are blanks], title page printed in green and black, original black cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, top edge stained green, decorated green endpapers. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by Machen. Book design by T. M. Cleland. Collects ten essays and short stories. "'Witchcraft' and 'The Ceremony' are small gems." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1079. Goldstone & Sweetser 30a. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Not in Reginald (1978; 1992).
RITUAL AND OTHER STORIES.
[Lewes, East Sussex]: The Tartarus Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies, this being number 101. Collects twenty-five stories including some tales previously uncollected in book form, originally published between 1889 and 1937, nearly half first published in obscure British magazines in 1890 and 1891.
RITUAL: AND OTHER STORIES.
[Lewes, East Sussex]: The Tartarus Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Thirty-two stories spanning Machen's career including a dozen previously uncollected from obscure British magazines (1889-91).
THE SECRET GLORY
[Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First complete edition. 500 copies printed. First publication of the complete edition with the addition of chapters 5 & 6 as well as a previously unpublished introduction by Machen.
THE SECRET OF THE SANGRAAL: A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS ...
[Horam, East Sussex]: The Tartarus Press, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies. Collection of nonfiction articles and essays.
THE SHINING PYRAMID.
London: Martin Secker, 1925. 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 edition. 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. 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.
THE THREE IMPOSTORS OR THE TRANSMUTATIONS ...
London: John Lane ... Boston: Roberts Bros. 1895. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-290 + 14-page and 16-page publisher's catalogues inserted at rear, first advertising volumes in the "Keynotes" series, second a general catalogue dated 1895, cover and title page design by Aubrey Beardsley, title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in white, spine panel stamped in white and gold, publisher's device stamped in white on rear panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Episodic mystery thriller incorporating four weird tales, including "Novel of the Black Seal" and "Novel of the White Powder," considered by Bleiler (1983) to be "among the classics of supernatural literature, beautifully narrated, highly imaginative, thought-provoking, even with a note of humor that is seldom encountered." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-59. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1071. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 714. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 277. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1922-25. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-161. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09474. Goldstone & Sweetser 7a.