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Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire, 2007. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. First published in 1926: new introduction by R. B. Russell. This volume contains sixty studies, mostly from real life, each of which, by its capacity for inspiring terror or causing amused wonder, qualifies as the 'Dread' or 'Droll' of Arthur Machen's general heading. 'To be able so to tell the bare truth that it seems a magnificent lie' is the qualification which has attracted Machen to the most outstanding of his narrations. When Dreads and Drolls was first published in 1926 it contained twenty-nine articles reprinted from London's The Graphic. This new edition more than doubles that number by including all of his contributions from that magazine. To 'The Euston Square Mystery', 'The Adventure of the Long-Lost Brother' and others we have been able to add 'A Castle in Celtic Myths', 'A Pretty Parricide', 'One Night When I Was Frightened' and many more. There is a tendency towards the re-telling of notable…
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- Title Dreads And Drolls
- Author Machen, Arthur
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- Publisher Tartarus Press, Great Britain
- Date 2007
- ISBN 9781905784042
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DREADS AND DROLLS.
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Leyburn, , 2007. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Well-produced, tight and perfectly clean copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket. . 8vo. pp: x, 241. First edition thus. Original publisher's dark red boards with gilt lettering at front and spine in original publisher's cream, red and black illustrated dust jacket. Limited edition of 300 copies. ISBN: 9781905784042
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Great Britain: The Tartarus Press, 2007. One of 300 copies. New in DJ. Silk ribbon marker as called for.. First Complete Edition/Limited. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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