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Leyburn, , 2007. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Well-produced, tight and perfectly clean copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket. . 8vo. pp: x, 241. First edition thus. Original publisher's dark red boards with gilt lettering at front and spine in original publisher's cream, red and black illustrated dust jacket. Limited edition of 300 copies. ISBN: 9781905784042
Dreads And Drolls by Machen, Arthur - 2007
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Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire, 2007. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. First published in 1926: new introduction by R. B. Russell. This volume contains sixty studies, mostly from real life, each of which, by its capacity for inspiring terror or causing amused wonder, qualifies as the 'Dread' or 'Droll' of Arthur Machen's general heading. 'To be able so to tell the bare truth that it seems a magnificent lie' is the qualification which has attracted Machen to the most outstanding of his narrations. When Dreads and Drolls was first published in 1926 it contained twenty-nine articles reprinted from London's The Graphic. This new edition more than doubles that number by including all of his contributions from that magazine. To 'The Euston Square Mystery', 'The Adventure of the Long-Lost Brother' and others we have been able to add 'A Castle in Celtic Myths', 'A Pretty Parricide', 'One Night When I Was Frightened' and many more. There is a tendency towards the re-telling of notable eighteenth-century crimes among these 'Dreads' and 'Drolls', but Machen also manages to illuminate such a wide range of subjects as the Holy Grail, the 'Little People' and cookery. In this entertaining and diverse collection of essays, Machen manages to show how little human nature has changed through the centuries. 300 copies printed. Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.
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DREADS AND DROLLS.
by MACHEN, Arthur
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Dreads and Drolls
by Arthur Machen, R. B. Russell (Intro.)
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Great Britain: The Tartarus Press, 2007. One of 300 copies. NEW. Silk ribbon marker as called for.. First Complete Edition/Limited. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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