Master of Fallen Years [signed]

Vincent O Sullivan and Jessica Amanda Salmonson, [ed.]

Edité par Ghost Story Press, London, 1995

A propos de cet article

Presentation copy, inscribed by Salmonson on the limitation statement. One of 200 hand-numbered copies, out of series. Collects fifteen stories and eight poems; a preface and postscript by O Sullivan; and an introduction by Salmonson. O Sullivan was born in New York in 1868, lived much of his life in London and France, and was a friend to Oscar Wilde. According to Salmonson, in her introduction, "He should have been remembered as one of the best horror writers of the 1890s and the twentieth century, as well known as, say, Machen … [His] association with Wilde may have been in part responsible for his becoming persona non grata at the better paying magazines." O Sullivan, having "lived a longish life as a more or less well-to-do rentier, in latish middle age found himself ruined, wrote his last book … under terrible conditions, and, dying in Paris, ended anonymously in the common pit for the cadavers of paupers" (Robert Aickman, The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, p. 9). Publisher s black cloth decorated and lettered in red, top edge red, in 2 copies of the original pictorial dustjacket, maroon endpapers. xli, 273 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 in. Very good; minor creasing and rubbing to dustjacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Master of Fallen Years [signed]
• Éditeur: Ghost Story Press, London
• Date de parution: 1995
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
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  • Rare Books, Manuscripts & Periodicals