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A Bibliogrpahy of Arthur Machen
by Godstone, Adrian & Wesley D. Sweetser
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Texas: The Humanities Research Center - The Unversity of Texas, 1965. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Black cloth with gilt titles, limited first edition in dustjacket. Limitation page at rear indicating 500 copies. A very good volume with minor bending at the lower corners and a bit of shelfwear to the board edges. Previous owner's bookplate neatly to the top of the front pastedown, otherwise a clean and unmarked copy in a solid binding. Unclipped jacket with $5.00 price stamped in blue ink to the top of the front flap. Some ruffling and chipping along the top edge of the panels, clean and bright paper jacket. 180 pp., indexed, some black & white illustrations and photos. Machen has been recognized as a foundational author of fantasy and horror, influencing some of our best known modern novelists.
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- Bookseller
- Tangible Tales
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2035
- Title
- A Bibliogrpahy of Arthur Machen
- Author
- Godstone, Adrian & Wesley D. Sweetser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Publisher
- The Humanities Research Center - The Unversity of Texas
- Place of Publication
- Texas
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Arthur Machen Literature Short Stories bibliography fiction limited first editions Llewellyn Jones Welsh horror fantasy supernatural bibliographies English tales
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author);
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- First Edition
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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