About this title: Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean treasures of Eblis. Underlying the elegant prose is a strong element of self-indulgent personal fantasy on the part of Beckford, youthful millionaire, dreamer, and eventually social outcast. Byron, Poe, Mallarme, and Swinburne are some of the literary ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780192816450ISBN:0192816454
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 216 p. World's Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780192836564ISBN:0192836560
Description: Good. MInor shelf wear with markings present. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, New York
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780192816450ISBN:0192816454
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Tight binding. Some underlining in the text. A light crease on the front cover. World's Classics Series. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine (02279)
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780345022790ISBN:0345022793
Description: Cruz, Ray. Good. No dust jacket as issued. VG- 305 p. 1971 paperback edition from Ballantine (02279). VERY GOOD MINUS, w/2 large corner chips. Ray Cruz cover art. Lin Carter intro. Rather uncommon edition. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine, New York
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780345022790ISBN:0345022793
Description: Very Good. 1st paperback edition, wraps, small fold to front cover, sun faded spine, Very Good. An "Original" Adult Fantasy with an introduction by Lin Carter. read more
Description: Creation Books, 2000; Softcover; 123pp; Underlining on a few pages, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Weird gothic novel of witches, demons, human sacrifices and other horrors. Translated from the French. Illustrated by Odilon Redon. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bodley Head
Date Published: 1953
Description: Good Condition in a Good (-) Dust Jacket. Light age tone to end page. Dust jacket rubbed with 1" piece from the front top edge. Binding is tight with NO previous owner's marks. Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 126 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-03-15
ISBN-13:9780199537228ISBN:0199537224
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780199537228. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Creation Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781840680188ISBN:1840680180
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Apart from some very light shelf wear to cover edges and surface this is in great condition. The pages are tight, bright and extremely clean and there are no inscriptions. The spine is crease free. All my books are carefully packed and I make every effort to despatch orders the same day. If you have any questions regarding this book please do not hesitate to ask. A photograph of the actual book is readily available upon request. read more
Binding: Hardcover in Slipcase
Publisher: Folio Society, London
Date Published: 1958
Description: Edward Bawden (lithographs) 8vo. Cloth backed, paper boards illustrated with vibrant batik print, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with 8 color lithographs. Internally clean and tight, very light shelfwear to boards, spine is sunned and rubbed, Very Good in a brown slipcase that is lightly shelfworn and rubbed with a bump to bottom corner. read more
Description: [0-19-281080-4] 1970, 1st thus. (Trade paperback)...Very good.......Also released as: An Arabian Tale; & as: The History of the Caliph Vathek....(Fantasy) read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Creation Books, London
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781840680188ISBN:1840680180
Description: New. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A crawling meditation on the transgressions of the depraved. Witches, demons, human sacrifices and other spectral horror all mark the progress of Vathek as he journeys to the underworld on his pilgrimage to the underworld, where his sins and damnations flower into eternal torture. First published in the late 18th Century in French, William Beckford's Gothic classic Vathek was revised by the author in 1816. The book includes lithographs by the symbolist artist Odilon ... read more
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