About this title: Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863-1947) who wrote under the pen name Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of The Angels of Mons (1915). In 1884, he published the pastiche The Anatomy of Tobacco, and secured work with the publisher and bookseller George Redway. Around 1890, Machen began to publish in literary magazines, writing stories influenced by the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, some of which used gothic or fantastic themes. This led to his ...
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Binding: hb
Publisher: Martin Secker, London
Date Published: 1928
Description: Bound in original apple green cloth with gilt lettering. Slim 8vo, pp. 182, ads. First published in 1906, and included in "The New Adelphi Library" in 1928. Spine sunned. Cloth lightly soiled. Former owner's bookplate on inside front board. Else clean, tight, and in good plus, to very good, condition. No dust wrapper. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Martin Secker, London
Date Published: 1928
Description: Good. No Jacket. 5 x 7. 182 pages before publishers listing of New Adelphi Library series. Hardcover-green cloth with title in gold on spine and logo design in gold on front. Spine is lightly sunfaded. Interior has prior owner name on inside front cover, otherwise unmarked, tight and clean. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ALAN RODGERS BOOKS
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781598188813ISBN:159818881X
Description: New. All day long a fierce and heavy heat had brooded Over the City, and as Darnell neared home he saw the mist lying on all the damp lowlands, wreathed in coils about Bedford Park to the south, and mounting to the West, so that the tower of Acton Church... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: ALAN RODGERS BOOKS
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781598181593ISBN:1598181599
Description: New. All day long a fierce and heavy heat had brooded Over the City, and as Darnell neared home he saw the mist lying on all the damp lowlands, wreathed in coils about Bedford Park to the south, and mounting to the West, so that the tower of Acton Church... read more
Edition: 1st edition. 1st Printing.
Binding: HC in dust jacket.
Publisher: Tartarus Press, Horam, East Sussex
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781872621494ISBN:187262149X
Description: One of 250 numbered copies. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. read more
Edition: First thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tartarus Press, Horam, East Sussex
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781872621494ISBN:187262149X
Description: 8vo bound in gitl cloth with silver titles, and housed in a yellow pictorial dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Fine in a fine dust jacket. read more
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