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By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £425.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1999.
Edition: First edition (first printing).
Seller ID: 01092
ISBN: 1872621473
Condition: Fine copies in fine dustjackets (as new) with errata sheet laid in.
Two volumes: 400 and 475 pages each. With an appreciation by David Tibet. Collects all the stories in all the author's scarce short story collections. Published by Tartarus Press in conjunction with Durtro Press. 500 hardcover sets printed. With publisher's printed errata sheet laid in. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2001.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 07133
ISBN: 1872621619
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.
Autobiography: 222 pages. New eight page foreword by Jeremy Dyson. Originally published in 1966. 500 hardcover copies printed. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 07480
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of supernatural stories. First published in 1966, this Tartarus editiion (2nd printing) contains an eight page introduction by Mark Valentine. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 29440
ISBN: 1905784325
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of supernatural stories, first published in 1964: this edition has a new four page introduction by Glen Cavaliero. Limited to 350 hardcover copies.''Robert Aickman was perhaps the finest writer of the ghost story in the second half of the 20th century, and although little of his work is pure fantasy - only a few of his 45 or so stories, and neither of his novels, actually take leave of the mundane world in any sense, except as a prelude to death - he is of absorbing interest in our context because he demonstrates the range of meaning that may be extracted from the devices o... View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 30089
ISBN: 1905784341
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of supernatural stories. First published in 1975, this Tartarus reprint contains a new introduction by Phil Baker.''Robert Aickman was perhaps the finest writer of the ghost story in the second half of the 20th century, and although little of his work is pure fantasy - only a few of his 45 or so stories, and neither of his novels, actually take leave of the mundane world in any sense, except as a prelude to death - he is of absorbing interest in our context because he demonstrates the range of meaning that may be extracted from the devices of any form of fantastic literatur... View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £37.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2013.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 36100
ISBN: 1905784597
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Autobiography: 246 pages. Eight page foreword by Jeremy Dyson. Originally published in 1966, followed by a 1st Tartarus Press printing (red dustjacket) in 2001. This Tartarus reprint (in cream/yellow dustjacket) has some (minor?) revisions to the introduction. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 37316
ISBN: 1905784686
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
290 pages: the author's second volume of autobiography, following THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE (1966). First published in 1986, this Tartarus Press edition contains a new short introduction by Rosalie Parker. Limited to 350 hardcover copies. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2013.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 37317
ISBN: 1905784287
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Supernatural short story collection first published by Victor Gollancz in 1968: this edition has a five page introduction by R. B. Russell. The Tartarus Press first printing was in 2010. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 37355
ISBN: 1905784287
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of supernatural stories, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1977. This Tartarus Press edition (2nd printing - the first was in 2012) contains a nine page introduction by Michael Dirda. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 39691
ISBN: 1905784562
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
The last, posthumously published collection of stories by Aickman, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1985. The Tartarus Press first printing of 2013 reprinted those five long stories plus a lot more, beginning with a new introduction by Barry Humphries. Also included was the weird novella THE MODEL (posthumously published in 1987), plus Aickman's ''An Essay'' (written on winning the first World Fantasy Award in 1976), additionally this volume includes all seven of his Introductions to the seven volumes in The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series which he edited: and finally the six-p... View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 39692
ISBN: 1905784481
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
The author's last collection of stories (while still alive), first published by Victor Gollancz in 1980. The Tartarus Press 2012 1st printing collected those six long supernatural stories, plus a new seven page introduction by Reggie Oliver. However this Tartarus Press 2nd printing of 2015 also now adds a further story ''The Stranger'', the titles story from the 2015 Tartarus Press Aickman collection The Strangers And Other Writings, which went o/p very quickly (more or less by the time of publication) and will NOT be reprinted. View more info
By: Barker, Nugent
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 37455
ISBN: 1905784678
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with short typed letter from publisher Ray Russell laid in.
The author's collection of twenty-one macabre, humour and fantasy stories, first published in 1951: the first Tartarus Press printing was in 2002, with a new introduction by Douglas A. Anderson and Bibliographical Notes. This 2nd Tartarus Press printing is from 2014. View more info
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2000
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 04827
ISBN: 187262152X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of dust-soiling to the cream (unlaminated) dustjacket.
First published in 1912. Short story collection, with a new ten page introduction by Mike Ashley: 296 pages. 300 numbered copies printed. This copy is no 6.''appearing here for the first time since it's 1912 publication, ''Pan's Garden'' is the result of Blackwood's passion for the supernatural in Nature: each of it's short stories has, as it's motive force, a separate Elemental, a device which drives each individual narrative and unifies the book. The writing is powerfully evocative and, for its time, shocking in its overt paganism.''. View more info
By: Blayre, Christopher (Edward Heron-Allen)
Price: £150.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1998.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 00186
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) plus addendum slip,
72 pages. Short story privately originally published by the author as a twenty copy limited edition in 1923: ''this once controversial story of human-feline miscenegation was considered too erotic for publication in the author's early collection THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE''. LIMITED EDITION: 99 numbered hardcover copies ptinted. Note however that this copy is unnumbered but left blank with an ink line where the limitation number should be. Laid in is an addendum slip relating to the text. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 40646
ISBN: 1905784848
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Supernatural Southern Gothic horror novel set in Texas at the end of WW2.''1918. In the dying days of World War I, the Spanish Flu devastates the small town of Incarnation, Texas. The sheriff closes the church and quarantines the dying in the schoolhouse. The townsfolk huddle alone in their houses to avoid infection. Each new day brings fresh corpses. But something worse than the flu is coming. Verge Strömberg, son of the domineering town pastor, is a sickly boy who lives in a world of books. His mother disappeared when he was seven, his older brother ran away. Now his father leaves... View more info
By: Cavaliero., Glen
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2007.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 20383
ISBN: 1905784015
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Hardbound collection of poems: 88 pages. View more info
By: Collier, John
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41314
ISBN: 1905784872
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
26 stories ''with a fantastic streak and elements of horror'': 294 pages with an introduction.''John Collier (1901-1980) is best remembered for his short stories, although he was also a poet, novelist and screenwriter. He was given the Edgar Award and the International Fantasy Award in 1952 for the collection Fancies and Goodnights, and several of his most memorable tales were adapted for television and film. Collier’s tales are clever with a light touch, although he often added dark satire to the humour, in the vein of Swift, whom he admired. The twenty-six stories in this collectio... View more info
By: Coppard, A. E.
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2006.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 18011
ISBN: 187262197X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collects thirty-one supernatural tales: new introduction by Mark Valentine. Limited to 300 copies. View more info
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2004.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 14755
ISBN: 1872621880
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
With an new 20-page introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz, and a separate introduction to the two extra stories by Douglas A. Anderson. Collection of supernatural stories originally published in 1895, regarded as a landmark of the 19th weird tale. H.P. Lovecraft singled out the story 'The Dead Valley' as one of the small percentage of American works deserving of high praise in his seminal essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'. This new edition collects the original six stories plus a further two stories, uncollected and never reprinted till now. 300 copies printed. View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2008.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 00749
ISBN: 1905784112
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
First published by Tartarus Press in 1999 in an edition of just 250 copies. 12-page introduction by Richard Dalby. Additional stories not included in the original 1911 edition are the author's own ''lost'' story, ''The King's Messenger'', and also three supernatural stories by his two sisters. With handwritten letter from the publisher laid in stating that this is a pre-publication complimentary copy. View more info
Price: £175.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2004.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 13629
ISBN: 187262183X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Eight weird stories: 226 pages. Introduction by Mark Samuels. 300 copies printed. PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED AND DATED AT TIME OF PUBLICATION (November 2004) BY THE AUTHOR TO A FELLOW UK WEIRD FICTION WRITER/'' To - - , who must forever bear the ''agony and nightmare'' of responsibility for this noxious tome's manifestation in this dimension, Quentin S. Crisp,Nov. 2004''. View more info
Price: £125.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2004.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 13653
ISBN: 187262183X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Eight weird stories: 226 pages. Introduction by Mark Samuels. 300 copies printed. View more info
By: David, Charles
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2019.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 45728
ISBN: 1912586177
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Weird/sf novel, the author's first book.''the year is 1940 and blues musician Roosevelt Sands is on the run for murder when he lays down in the middle of a southern crossroads and plays a song that initiates the collapse of the universe. What follows is the slow demise of the world, as the music expands outward from its source to the edge of creation and back again. For forty years the music seeks to return to the place from which it came. During this time, a slow unravelling of reality brings forth supernatural events that influence and shape the interconnected lives of people around ... View more info
By: Eisele, Michael
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41471
ISBN: 1905784899
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new)..
The author's first book. Collects fifteen strange stories: 268 pages. Limited to 300 (unnumbered) hardcover copies.''The fifteen strange stories that comprise this stunning debut collection range over the fantastic, the supernatural and the psychological. In ‘An Old Tale’, a young ballet student discovers hope beyond the barriers of death. ‘The Music’ tells of a violinist who must face the ghosts of his past; and those ghosts are brought to life in ‘The Beginning’. In ‘Gloria and the Selchie’ a modern Irish girl discovers that the stories her old granny told her are a... View more info
By: Eisele, Michael
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2018.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 44133
ISBN: 978912586028
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
292 pages. Limited to 300 (uunumbered) copies. View more info
By: Gaskin, John
Price: £125.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2006.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 17510
ISBN: 1872621961
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of ten supernatural stories: Limited to 450 copies. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. View more info
By: Gaskin, John
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2019.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 45648
ISBN: 1912586134
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collects the 160 page title novel plus four other short stories. LIMITED EDITION: 380 numbered copies signed by the author. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 30730
ISBN: 1905784384
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
366 pages: collects twelve supernatural tales and other material. Eight page introductrion by Brian Stableford. LIMITED EDITION limited to 300 hardcover copies. With handwritten letter from the publishers laid in/''..I hope you are in the mood for a little decadence..''. View more info
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2009.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 25983
ISBN: 1905784147
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collects all of the author's thirty supernatural tales together in one volume, with an introduction by Richard Dalby. 350 copies printed. View more info
By: Heron-Allen, Edward (& Selina Dolaro)
Price: £150.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2001.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 06196
ISBN: 1872621570
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for several small light stains along top page edges.
Introduction by R. B. Russell and Rosalie Parker: plus biographical notes by ''Christopher Blayre'' and an Heron-Allen bibliography.. By the author who later wrote under the pseudonym Christopher Blayre, this is an entertaining novel of the fantastic written in the 1880's: often described as a tale of psychic vampirism, it is a story of mesmerism, doppelgangers and metapsychosis. LIMITED EDITIION: 300 numbered copies printed (though due to a printing/binding error only about half this number were actually released). This is no 73. View more info
By: Heuler, Karen
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2018.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 45040
ISBN: 191258610X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collects 19 weird stories, six published here for the first time: ''Heuler’s voice is refreshingly original, and readers will find these stories remarkably inventive and brimming with ideas not found anywhere else in contemporary fantasy fiction'' (Publishers Weekly). Limited to 300 hardcover copies.''you find you’re just one of many copies being generated by a 3-D printer, or hear that the earth is the subject of a rather cheerful invasion. Whatever the trouble, you still have to find your way. Playful, sober, profound and profane, the characters in Karen Heuler’s stories may ... View more info
![Image for The Wandering Soul: Glimpses Of A Life, A Compendium Of Rare And Unpublished Works (and) The Lost Poetry [two volumes]](/assets/images/product/45645.jpg)
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2005.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 45645
Condition: Fine copies in fine dustjackets (as new).
Edited by Jane Frank: introduction by Mike Ashley. 384 pages. A joint publication with PS Publishing. 500 numbered copies of THE WANDERING SOUL were printed, the first 150 copies of which were slipcased together with a second volume THE LOST POETRY (150 copies printed). This is no 500 of THE WANDERING SOUL, together with a 2nd printing of THE LOST POETRY OF WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2008.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 22979
ISBN: 1905784082
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
532 pages: E.T.A. Hoffmann was Germany's greatest author of fantastic and supernaturalist fiction, a composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann's fiction, exploring the darker side of the human spirit, influenced Poe, Dickens, Baudelaire and Kafka. His highly readable, entertaining and eerie stories are thick with references to ghosts, madness and hypnotic influence. Supernatural and sinister characters appear in the lives of his heroes and heroines, exposing the tragic and grotesque. The Sand-Man and Other Night Pieces is the definitive collection of Hoffmann's stories of ... View more info
By: Holmes, Carly
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2018.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 44458
ISBN: 1912586061
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Short story collection: ''peers into every corner of the strange fiction genre: from rural gothic through to traditional ghost stories, the uncanny, and folk horror''. 300 hardcover copies printed. View more info
By: Hughes, Rhys
Price: £150.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2000.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 02920
ISBN: 1872621449
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for one small mark (removable?) on front panel.
270 pages: weird, macabre/fantasy stories, following his earlier collection WORMING THE HARPIE from the same publisher. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author. This copy is no. 11. View more info
By: Hughes, Rhys
Price: £150.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1995.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 07461
ISBN: 187262120X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with signed typed letter from publisher Ray Russell (to the book reviewer at the Daily Express) affixed (with small piece of tape) to the front free endpaper.
Short story collection. LIMITED EDITION: 226 numbered copies printed. This is no 165. View more info
By: Hughes, Rhys
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2002.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 09134
ISBN: 1872621686
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
296 pages: collection of weird stories, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock. LIMITED EDITION: from a total of 400 copies printed, this is one of the first 150 numbered and signed by the author. View more info
By: Hughes, Rhys
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 37999
ISBN: 1905784716
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
New collection of stories, all but one previously unpublished: 212 pages. View more info
By: Lees, Tim
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 29439
ISBN: 1905784295
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Supernatural novel. Limited to 300 hardcover copies.''Hans Schneider is a drunkard and a womaniser; everyone agrees he's heading for a bad end. When he kills a fellow student in a duel, he finds himself banished to an isolated rural hospital, far from the pleasures he desires. There he meets the mysterious Dr Lavenza, and learns about Frankenstein's prescription-the secret of eternal life. Together, Schneider and Lavenza set out to collect the missing pieces of the formula. But they are not alone. From Germany to Rome, from Rome to Paris, to the failed and wretched Eden of an all-too... View more info
By: Lindsay, David
Price: £60.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2004.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 13375
ISBN: 1872621821
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Originally published in 1922, this new edition contains a new seven-page afterword by Douglas A. Anderson. 300 copies printed. Wth publishers prospectus for the book laid in, and with a letter from the publisher (signed by both Rosalie Parker and Ray Russell) stating that this is a complimentary copy.''In THE HAUNTED WOMAN (1922) a stairway revealed by timeslips gives occasional access to the Saxon edifice which once stood on the site of a modern house, offering its owner brief intervals of liberation from the burden of repression and constraint to which centuries of civilization ha... View more info
By: Lloyd, Rebecca
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 36826
ISBN: 1905784619
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of sixteen weird/supernatural stories. 300 hardcover copies printed. View more info
By: Lloyd, Rebecca
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2017.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 42353
ISBN: 1905784961
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
246 pages: collects seven long weird/fantasy stories. View more info
By: Lorrain, Jean
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 39545
ISBN: 1905784783
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
300 pages: 26-page introduction and nine page afterword by Brian Stableford writing as, and indeed translating as, ''Francis Amery''. LIMITED EDITION: 350 copes printed. With publisher's hanwritten letter laid in stating that this is a complimentary copy.''Monsieur de Phocas (1901) has been ranked with Huysmans’ À Rebours (1884) as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. In the novel, Jean Lorrain presents experiences of the darker side of his life in Paris as the adventures of the Duc de Fréneuse (Phocas) and his relationship with the svengaliesque English painter Claudiu... View more info
By: Lorrain, Jean
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2002.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 08138
ISBN: 1872621651
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of stories by French Decadent writer of the late 1800s: translated and with an introduction by Brian Stableford. 350 copies printed. View more info
By: Machen, Arthur
Price: £110.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1998.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 00679
ISBN: 1872621368
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Reprints for the first time the full text, including chapters five and six. (the original edition of 1922, and subsequent editions, all have only four chapters): new three page preface by Godfrey Brangham. View more info
By: Machen, Arthur
Price: £250.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1998.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 15903
ISBN: 1872621317
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
First published in 1907. This first Tartarus Press printing contains for the first time all three of the Sidney Sime illustrations (specially tipped-in for this edition) originally intended (but not used) for the book's first publication (1907), plus the two known introductions written for later editions by the author, plus a new six-page introduction by Mark Valentine. LIMITED EDITION: 350 numbered hardcover copies printed. This is no 168. View more info
By: Machen, Arthur
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 39351
ISBN: 1905784767
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
First published in 1936. New 16-page introduction by Mark Valentine. View more info
By: Machen, Arthur
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41204
ISBN: 1905784813
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
A collection of essays, mystically poetic fragments, and supernatural tales, first published by Rich & Cowan: London in 1936. This new edition adds a 14-page introduction by James Machin.''a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth (aka Fytton Armstrong) in 1936. As well as exhuming some very early tales published in the first half of the 1890s, Gawsworth included Machen’s decadent prose poems from Ornaments in Jade, and later work commissioned by Lady Cynthia Asquith for collections such as The Ghost Book (1926) and Shudders (1929). Among other curio... View more info
By: Machen, Arthur
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2017.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 42167
ISBN: 1905784929
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
310 pages: collects together Machen's two volumes of autobiography, FAR OFF THINGS (1922) and THINGS NEAR AND FAR (1923), plus a new introduction by writer/comedian Stewart Lee. View more info
By: Machen, Arthur
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2017.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 43034
ISBN: 190578497X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with errata slip laid in.
Expanded contents. First published in 1924, The London Adventure is often considered to be Arthur Machen’s third volume of autobiography, but its alternative title, The Art of Wandering, differentiates it from Far Off Things and Things Near and Far. The term ‘wandering’ refers not only to Machen’s many and various journeys around the unconsidered byways of London, but also to the curiously meandering construction of the book. Machen plays a fine game with the reader, discussing what his book might be about, how he should begin it and where it might end. The result is a curiously up-to... View more info
