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Carbonnek: Privately Printed. Used - Good. 1923. Paper covered boards. 8vo. 448 pp. Number 591 from a limited printing of 1050 copies. Signed by the author. Some shelf wear and scuffing to boards, with heavy wear and chipping to joints and head & heel of spine. Corners bumped. Both hinges cracked, with some tearing to ffep and flyleaf. Pages are clean and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Good condition. (Subject: Fiction.)
Fantastic Tales or the Way to Attain - A Book Full of Pantagruelism Now For the First Time Into English. by Machen, Arthur - 1923.
by Machen, Arthur
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Fantastic Tales or the Way to Attain - A Book Full of Pantagruelism Now For the First Time Into English.
by Machen, Arthur
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Carbonnek:: Privately printed,, 1923.. First US edition. Limited edition, numbered 685/1050 signed copies.. Publishers vellum paper over blue boards, some rubbing to edges and corners, spine darkened with chip at head of spine, some minor dampstains and some foxing spots to start, p13-18 with some chipping/loss to outer edges, no affect to text. Signed on limitation page by author. Still, about very good copy at an affordable price.. Hardcover.. Machen (1863-1947), Welsh author of the weird, supernatural, fantasy and horror. A large influence on writers such as H.P. Lovecraft and later authors like Neil Gaiman and Graham Joyce.
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- Book Condition Used - Publishers vellum paper over blue boards, some rubbing to edges and corners, spine darkened with chip at head of spine, some min
- Edition First US edition. Limited edition, numbered 685/1050 signed copi
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Privately printed,
- Place of Publication Carbonnek:
- Date Published 1923.
- Keywords Modern books. Fantasy. Horror. Supernatural. Humor. Satire. Weird fiction. Lovecraft. Weird tales.
- Size Hardcover.
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Fantastic Tales or The Way to Attain - A Book Full of Pantagruelism
by Machen, Arthur
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Fantastic Tales, Or the Way to Attain: A Book Full of Pantagruelism Now For the First Time Done into English
by Machen, Arthur ( De Verville, Beroalde)
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Rochester, Michigan, United States
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Fantastic Tales, Or the Way to Attain: A Book Full of Pantagruelism Now For the First Time Done into English, Carbonnek,1923, first edition, vellum like spine somewhat tanned, else a vg copy in a near vg dust-wrapper likewise with tanned spine and with some wear, tear and some inner tape reinforcement. #75/1050 copies SIGNED by Arthur Machen.
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FANTASTIC TALES OR THE WAY TO ATTAIN
by Machen, Arthur
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Privately Printed, 1923. Limited Edition; # 28/1050. SIGNED by the author on the reverse of the title page. 448 pages in very good condition; edges yellowed. Many pages unopened. Quarter bound with white vellum over blue boards, gilt titles and decoration on the spine. Spine a little darkened, tiny tears at head/tail, Corners not bumped. Grey DJ with black spine titles. Spine and edges darkened, small chips on corners, head/tail of spine. VG-/GOOD-. Hardcover. VG-/Good-.
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Fantastic Tales or The Way to Attain
by MACHEN, Arthur
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Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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Carbonnek: Privately Printed. 1923. Machen's translation of the 17th century French text Moyen de Parvenir by the poet and polymath Beroalde de Verville. Reprints his 1890 translation, with a new 8-page introduction, this being a limited edition: Copy No. 994 of 1050 numbered copies signed by the author. Machen was a writer of fantastic literature in the late 19th and early 20th century; had a great influence on the dark fantasy and horror published in the pulp magazines of the 1920s such as Weird Tales; and he was admired by such fantasy writers as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long (as well as by Jorge Luis Borges, who called him a great writer). H. P. Lovecraft, in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," called Machen one of the four "modern masters" of supernatural horror. Machen was also an occultist, and Aleister Crowley admired his writings. A fine copy, quarterbound in vellum, in a very good dustwrapper. A nice copy of this bulky book, usually found quite worn.…
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