arthur pseudonym jones llewellyn (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st American Edition. Original publisher's yellow cloth binding in a light beige paper dust jacket with blue and white illustration on front panel. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 6 1/2" x 9." 277 pages, complete. Eight black-and-white plates, complete. A few pages unopened. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is intact overall but has age toning throughout, slight wrinkling and tiny closed tears on the edges, and slight bleeding on red publisher's imprints of Borzoi Books. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. Arthur Machen (1863-1947), pen name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was a Welsh author best-known for his works in the fantasy and supernatural horror genres. Many of his works contain Gothic elements. The Canning Wonder is one of Machen's nonfictional works and is about the sensational criminal case of Elizabeth Canning (1734-1773), an English maidservant who mysteriously disappeared in 1753 and just as mysteriously reappeared almost a month later. Canning had claimed that she had been held captive against her will and was initially not charged with any criminal offenses. However, a reexamination of the case and a retrial resulted in Canning being convicted of perjury. In his book, Machen makes the argument that Canning lied about some or most of her story. The truth behind what had happened to Canning remains a mystery to this day.

First edition, first printing of Arthur Machen's translation. Contemporary half red morocco, double ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards, five raised bands, gilt ruled compartments and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 further full page illustrations (some signed J. S. Beckham). An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just light rubbing at the extremities. The contents, with the bookplate of The Reverend William Major Scott to the front pastedown, an early (pre-1923) clipped catalogue description tipped in at the reverse of the front endpaper and mild toning to the text block edges are otherwise clean throughout. A handsome example. The first printing of Machen's translation of the seventeenth century French text Moyen de Parvenir by the poet and polymath Beroalde de Verville.Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, this example is numbered 38 and stamped in red ink on the limitation page. A rare book in the early twentieth century, the translation was subsequently reprinted with a new eight page introduction as a signed limited edition in 1923. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with green titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge green. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth a little rubbed and dusty with a few light marks. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and dusty dustwrapper that has several small chips at the spine tips and fold corners. Not price-clipped (7/6 net to the lower front flap). Very scarce in dustwrapper. A collection of essays, prose poems and supernatural tales, the earliest dating from 1890 through to the first publication of Machen's highly regarded, now classic supernatural short story "N". (Bleiler; Locke: Spectrum of Fantasy). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.