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Carbonnek:: Privately Printed,, 1923.. No. 400 of 1050 copies, signed by Arthur Machen.. publisher's art vellum-backed blue boards.. Very good or better; tight and sound, with some light use and tanning to the white spine.. 8vo,.

Privately Printed. Carbonnek, 1923. First American edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original paper vellum and blue paper covered boards, all edges untrimmed, spine sunned with wear to extremeties. No. 422 of 1050 numbered copies signed by the author. Good. First American edition. 1 vols. 8vo.

Carbonnek: Privately Printed, 1923. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Thick 8vo, parchment-backed blue boards. Carbonnek: Privately Printed, 1923. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> One of 1050 signed copes. Light foxing on preliminary pages, otherwise fine.<br/><br/>

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.)

Carbonnek, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. By Author. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. now for the first time done into English, by Arthur Machen, Vellam spine with title stamped in Gilt over green boards, Faded green dust jacket, chipped alond the edges, and now in a protective mylar cover. 448 pages including bibliography. This copy is a Signed Limited edition number 37 of 1050 and signed Arthur Machen. Privately Printed for the Society of Pantagruelists. Carbonnek 1923. The pages are uncut/unopened. edges untrimmed. There is moderate foxing primarily in the margins throughout the book..

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.

Carbonnek : Priv. print., 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; viii, [1], 11-447, [1] p ; 23 cm. Notes; SIGNED by Arthur Machen. Subjects; Fantastic Tales. Pantagruelism. Stories.

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-.

Carbonnek: Privately Printed, 1923. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Thick 8vo, vellum-backed blue boards, dust wrapper. Carbonnek: Privately Printed, 1923. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> Signed by the author and with a new introduction by him, written especially for this edition. Fine copy in a dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

London: Carbonnek, 1890. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xvi, 355 pages of text. Full dark green leather binding by Hatchard of London, with sunning to the spine rendering it an attractive brown color, and the start of a crack to the front hinge. Illustrated by an engraved frontis and nine black & white plates. Number 59 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Minor and consistent browning to the paper, with a few spots of discoloration scattered here and there. The first four pages (including front endpapers) suffer from a very small loss due to insect damage, but it is very minor but remains a distraction. Otherwise, a very attractive edition of this book, rarely found illustrated..

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.… Read More