Bindon Parva

Edité par The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1925

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Birmingham, George A. (pseudonym of James Owen Hannay). Bindon Parva. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1925]. First U.S. edition. With twelve-page "Preface to American Readers" not found in the U.K. edition. Octavo, pp. [1-22] 23-319 [320: blank]. Original dark brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in pistachio green. Small violet ownership rubber stamp on front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket. The U.S. edition is scarcer (and arguably better looking) than the Mills & Boon U.K. edition, which quickly went through at least three printings. #1781. $125. The first of these thirteen loosely-linked stories establishes the narrative frame: an architect is called in to do some restoration work on a small Norman church in Bindon Parva, a fictional small village in Dorset on the south coast of England. Normally, his partner, Darrell, would handle the ecclesiastical jobs -- with great relish -- but he is in bed with influenza. The other partner (our narrator) does "secular" work and regards spiritual matters of any kind, let alone the weirdly supernatural, as best confined between the covers of the Bible. It's this mildly skeptical perspective that provides the perfect dramatic foil for the ensuing stories. These are narrated by the church's Anglican vicar, Sylvester Maturin, who has become so receptive to mystical forces that he is practically a ghost himself -- hardly ever eating or bathing, not from penitential discipline but from sheer lack of interest. In the first story, the architect awakes early one morning and sees Maturin (a name to conjure with, surely, when it comes to supernatural fiction!) saying Mass by himself -- or so one would have thought in a church empty but for the eavesdropping architect. But when Maturin serves the Eucharist the architect sees the chalice passing hands down a line of invisible kneeling communicants. The ensuing stories gradually reveal that Maturin is in touch with the spirits of many of the former vicars of this church, and he tells their stories as they have been told to him. These tales all concern religious themes and forces, naturally (or supernaturally), but most are only marginally "supernatural" in the usual sense of that term as a literary genre. The first story is indisputably weird, though, and quite atmospheric. The contrast of the two narrators gives a piquancy to the writing. Two other short ecclesiastical ghost stories, told to the author after the publication of the English edition, are related by him in the author's preface. The material in general is very pleasantly and professionally told. The author handles weighty matters with a light touch.…

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Titre
Bindon Parva
Auteur
Birmingham, George A. (pseudonym of James Owen Hannay)
Éditeur
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Année de publication
1925
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
1st Edition

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When I began my bookselling business in 1996 I called it "Eldritch Books" because that adjective at least partly covered the type of material I offered (and because its similarity to my own surname seemed so -- eldritch). "Ghost stories" would be another handy, if somewhat reductive, term. Most of it is fiction from the 19th and early 20th century with a strong emphasis on the fantastic. Since the most familiar and relevant genre terms in use today -- "science fiction," "fantasy," "supernatural," "horror" -- were not so much in use when these books were first published, pegging them that way can be anachronistic. But that should give you the general idea. I don't have much in the way of American pulp (either in magazine or specialty press book form) but otherwise my interests range widely from high-brow to middle-brow to low-brow to amateur/eccentric. You're more likely to find rare and obscure works here than high spots. (Or at least they're obscure now, whatever their status was when first published.) In 2001 I went to work for L. W. Currey as cataloguer and general assistant. Since 2014 I've been back working on my own. I have exhibited at convention fairs (such as WFC and Readercon) in the past. I began collecting and studying antiquarian fantasy around 1980. Some of my essays have appeared in genre publications such as NYRSF, Wormwood and F&SF. I tend to carefully research my inventory and write extensive notes. (If another dealer wishes to make use of any of these notes, I'd appreciate the courtesy of putting such excerpts in quotes and giving proper attribution to me. That's what I do when I quote from any of my reference works.) I will be gradually listing my inventory on ABE over the coming years. I hope you find something of interest. …

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